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Concert and CD Review: Belle and Sebastian — The Masters of Pop Whimsy

April 1, 2015
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The pop magic that Belle and Sebastian excels at struggles to survive on the band’s new album because its dance-heavy vibe plays against their strengths.

Restaurant Review: Woods Hill Table in West Concord — An Exemplary Farm-to-Table Experience

April 1, 2015
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Woods Hill Table is the 153-seat culmination of a vision that encompasses the locavore movement in impressive fashion.

Book Review: “Going into the City” — A Restrained Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man

March 31, 2015
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Robert Christgau, the author of 14,000 record reviews, makes the case for expansiveness as the best aesthetic.

Book Review: Three New Novels Explore the Power of Trauma

March 31, 2015
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A trio of new novels suggest that bad as it gets may not be as bad as it can get.

Film Review: “Salad Days: The Birth of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital”

March 31, 2015
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When no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.

Theater Interview: Actor Marc Labrèche — On Robert Lepage’s “Needles and Opium”

March 30, 2015
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“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”

Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Amplified

March 30, 2015
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There was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey’s frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.

Dance Interview: The Tamagawa Daigaku Taiko and Dance Group Comes to Town

March 29, 2015
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Boston was first introduced to ensemble taiko in 1975, when members of the Japanese group Kodō crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon and moments later performed.

Classical Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Gandolfi and Mahler

March 27, 2015
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Ascending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.

Fuse Performance Review: Z Marks the Spot — Cirque Zíva Wows

March 27, 2015
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The Golden Dragon Acrobats’ Cirque Zíva is part dance, part acrobatics, and 100 percent spectacle.

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