All is Calm juxtaposes the gravity (some might say the idiocy) of war with the simple human gestures that the opposing sides extended to each other during a remarkable cease fire.
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Music Feature: The Tedeschi Trucks Band — Home for the Holidays
The Tedeschi Trucks Band is capping another remarkable year of transition and growth, some of it spurred by tragedy.
Coming Attractions: December 1 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Coming Attractions: November 17 through December 6 — What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Author Interview: Pulitzer Prize Winner David W. Blight — Speaking of Frederick Douglass in the Witch City
“You can read Frederick Douglass forever and still just encounter new things, new ideas, new passages, new phrases. He’s that kind of writer. It’s like reading Emerson or even Shakespeare.”
Music Preview: “Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly: The Rock ’n’ Roll Dream Tour” — Virtual Presence
Believe it or not, Buddy Holly is on tour with another deceased rock ’n’ roll pioneer — Roy Orbison.
Concert Preview: Club Passim Celebrates 60 Years with a Birthday Bash
At a time when a number of established music venues in the Boston area have closed, Club Passim continues to thrive, thanks to the loyal grass-roots support it has enjoyed over six decades.
Music Interview: Musician and Writer Robert Forster — Life Before and After The Go-Betweens
Robert Forster was apparently spot-on when he proclaimed that The Go-Betweens “were too good for the bloody charts.”
Music Feature: Childsplay — The Last Waltz
Childsplay, the celebrated flash-band of fiddlers who have come together around the holidays for more than 30 years, is calling it quits.
Film Feature: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Not Your Typical Gefilte Fish Out of Water Story
The turf war for the bodies and souls of Montana’s Jews makes for an engaging inter-tribal drama.