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Music Interview: A Talk with Singer Luciana Souza

December 3, 2013
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“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience of jazz. Even if I’m singing Brazilian music.”

Theater Review: Fine Performances in a Cut-Rate “Camelot”

December 1, 2013
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Benjamin Evett as Arthur and Erica Spyres as Guenevere turn in solid performances, dependable anchors for a cast that does the best that it can in a drab, bargain basement production.

Poetry Appreciation: Seamus Heaney — “You’ll know them if I can get them true”

November 30, 2013
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Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.

Book Review: “Next Big Thing” — The Music Scene and Rock Clubs of 1980s Boston, Revived

November 30, 2013
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In “Next Big Thing,” Terry Kitchen’s prose brings 1980s Boston, its music scene, and its rock clubs—from the long gone Rathskeller to the still standing Paradise—to life.

Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight for the Press — Publishing the Pentagon Papers

November 29, 2013
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As the individual who quite possibly had the best seats in the house for the monumental legal battle that unfolded over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1971, James Goodale provers invaluable morsels of insight and information.

Theater Review: Colin Quinn’s Sharp and Funny “Unconstitutional”

November 29, 2013
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Stand-up comic Colin Quinn has been giving a lot of thought to the Founding Fathers, their vision for the new nation and, well, how that turned out. The result is his sharp and funny one-man show.

Film Interview: Will Forte on Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska”

November 27, 2013
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It was intimidating to go into a situation with a director (Alexander Payne) that you love so much and an actor (Bruce Dern) who has done so much and worked with so many amazing people.

Album Review: Singer/Songwriter Jake Bugg Approaches “Shangri La”

November 27, 2013
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Jake Bugg is hardly a punk, but he’s definitely acquired a bite that he didn’t have on his debut album.

Book Review: “The Hired Man” — A Powerful Novel about the Aftermath of War

November 27, 2013
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Aminatta Forna has given us a novel that belies its modest premise, a book about how the human mind protects itself by not knowing, yet sometimes, due to unexpected circumstances, comes to terms with what it thought it could not.

Concert Review: Wayne Shorter’s 80th Birthday Celebration — A Memorable Bash

November 26, 2013
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One doesn’t come away from a Wayne Shorter Quartet performance merely raving about individual accomplishments: the set on Sunday night never felt like just a compelling sequence of solos.

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