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Rock Album Feature: “Brian Wilson Live at the Roxy Theatre” — A Welcome Expanded Reissue

November 4, 2025
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While one hopes that never-before-released live shows are found and released, it is nice to revisit the start of Brian’s Wilson’s second-chance career.

Doc Talk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival 2025 — Festival of Light

November 3, 2025
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The Boston Jewish Film Festival supplies some glimmers of optimism.

Visual Arts Review: A Painter Among Poets — Grace Hartigan’s “Gift of Attention”

November 3, 2025
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The exhibit highlights the interplay between Grace Hartigan and the circle of modern poets who became her friends, supporters, and in some cases, patrons.

Concert Review: Club d’Elf — Where Trance Meets Revelation

November 2, 2025
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If any out-there band deserves the opportunity to be in-here, Club d’Elf is it.

Theater Review: Manual Cinema’s “The 4th Witch” — A Hallucinatory Vision of War and Witchcraft

October 31, 2025
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Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.

Classical Album Review: Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Symphony No. 5

October 31, 2025
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A new recording of Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5 from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner captures much of what makes the composer’s writing in it sound so fresh.

Concert Review: Herbie Hancock at the Boch Center Wang Theatre

October 30, 2025
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 At 85, Herbie Hancock can still funk it up.

Visual Arts Review: A Glitch in the System — American Artist’s Homage to Octavia Butler

October 30, 2025
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Some critics will consider the work in this show extreme, but one of the many strengths of American Artist lies in the fact that they draw on Butler’s prescient dystopian vision, elements of which are becoming a reality.

Children’s Book Reviews: The Natural World and Beyond

October 30, 2025
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Three beautiful new picture books for kids about nature, color, and gardening will inspire, inform, and delight.

Concert Review: Violinist James Ehnes and Pianist Andrew Armstrong in Recital

October 29, 2025
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Both players are long-time friends and recital partners; the pair thrive on tackling big stylistic and musical contrasts that are tied together by performances that were both interpretively thoughtful and technically accomplished.

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