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Concert Review: A ‘Cinematic’ Madeleine Peyroux at the Berklee Performance Center

October 28, 2013
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The slow tempos on the whole didn’t hurt the show. People were there to hear Madeleine Peryoux — her voice and delivery, her offbeat arrangements and particular idiosyncratic take on familiar songs.

Film Review: “The Counselor” — Filled with Dark and Troubling Poetry

October 28, 2013
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Cormac McCarthy’s rambling but brilliant screenplay is given vigorous direction by Ridley Scott, whose elegant visual style captures the tense downward spiral of the film’s doomed characters.

Fuse News: R.I.P. Lou Reed

October 27, 2013
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Remembering Lou Reed, who died Sunday at the age of 71.

Concert Review: Daniel Harding and the BSO Perform the Music of Turnage and Mahler

October 27, 2013
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Saturday’s pairing demonstrated exactly the kind of risky programming the Boston Symphony Orchestra shouldn’t be afraid to explore, even when it doesn’t all quite come together.

Theater Review: A Scary, Slick Version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

October 27, 2013
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Stoneham Theatre’s atmospheric staging of Jeffrey Hatcher’s version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is a production well worth seeing — it lives up to its billing as “a new look at a horror classic.”

Theater Review: “The Power of Duff”? The Same Old Guff

October 27, 2013
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Whenever you hear greeting card bromides intoned with a straight face (it’s usually in scenes set in a hospital) you know that moral fuzziness isn’t far behind.

Book Review: Julian Assange Trades Hopes and Fears With Cyberpunks

October 25, 2013
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Any book in which the fourth sentence is “The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia” runs the risk of overstating its case from the get-go.

Visual Arts Commentary: Five Highlights from the TransCultural Exchange’s 2013 Conference

October 24, 2013
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Residences are such a prominent feature of contemporary creative life that there’s an important gathering, the TransCultural Exchange’s Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts.

Graphic Novel Review: No One Wins — Gene Luen Yang’s “Boxers & Saints”

October 23, 2013
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Although Gene Yang envisions a similarity between the Boxers (once transformed into their mythological hero aspects) and modern superheroes, BOXERS & SAINTS is far from a simple good vs. evil slugfest.

Concert Review: Discovery Ensemble Plays Mozart, Ligeti, and Sibelius

October 22, 2013
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Discovery Ensemble is one of Boston’s great musical treasures, a group that consistently reminds us not only that the music they play is important, but why that’s the case to begin with.

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