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Book Interview: “Season of the Witch” — Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Occult Imagination

February 3, 2015
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“To say that the occult ‘saved’ it is really to say that the spiritual agitation is at the heart of what was able to bring rock ‘n’ roll to its most interesting places.”

Rock Concert Review: Billy Idol — Aging, But Still Playing the Bad-Boy

February 2, 2015
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Go ahead, name another older rocker this side of Iggy Pop who can get away with playing most of his show bare-chested.

Visual Arts Interview: George Fifield — Boston’s Cyberman

February 2, 2015
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George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.

Concert Review: Asher Fisch conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra

February 2, 2015
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The Schumann First formed the capstone to conductor Asher Fisch’s conspicuously satisfying Boston Symphony Orchestra subscription series debut program

Theater Review: “Breath & Imagination” — Inspirational, Then and Now

February 1, 2015
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Breath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.

Television Review: “The Americans” — Wasteland 2.0.

January 31, 2015
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At every turn I sense potential in The Americans, always untapped, for a smart sitcom.

Stage Review: An Israeli Playwright Expertly Analyzes “A Case Named Freud”

January 31, 2015
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Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.

Poetry Review: Epiphanic Wholenesses — The Poems of Tsvetanka Elenkova

January 30, 2015
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Tsvetanka Elenkova is one of the key figures in contemporary Bulgarian poetry.

Book Review: “The Water-Babies” — A Darwinian Fairy Tale by an Eccentric’s Eccentric

January 30, 2015
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Why is The Water-Babies a classic fairy tale? It doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet it doesn’t ignore important issues.

Film Review: “Mommy” — Motherhood at Hurricane Force

January 29, 2015
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Xavier Dolan’s up-close look at a mother-son relationship has the intensity of a John Cassavetes film — it can be gut-wrenching to watch.

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