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Theater Review: Manual Cinema’s “Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster” — Amusing, Joyful, and Creative

October 16, 2025
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With its visual and emotional impact, “Leonardo! A Wonderful Show about a Terrible Monster” provides an expansive, more inclusive view of what theater can do for children.

Book Review: “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It” — Brushing Away Platform Decay

October 16, 2025
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Journalist Cory Doctorow transforms what might be seen as a viral complaint into a theory of digital decay, tracing how the internet’s early architecture of openness curdled into a landscape of monopolized chokepoints.

Concert Review: My Morning Jacket Rewards Devoted Fans with an Expansive Set at MGM Fenway

October 15, 2025
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Seasoned fans were most likely to appreciate My Morning Jacket’s generous — if imperfect — sprawl.

Theater Review: “Madame Mozart, The Lacrimosa” — A Comic Requiem About Genius and Survival

October 15, 2025
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Whatever really happened in those hectic weeks of December 1791, this modern take on the creation of Mozart’s Requiem might well turn out to have classic possibilities of its own.

Book Review: Internet’s Workers, Tech’s Winners — A Flawed Take in “Amateurs!”

October 15, 2025
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There’s a great book to be written about how everyday users create the content that powers the web, while billionaires reap the profits. But this one isn’t it.

Visual Arts Review: Portia Zvavahera’s “Hidden Battles / Hondo dzakavanzika” — An Invitation into the Maze

October 15, 2025
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Portia Zvavahera’s seven large paintings, including three new pieces, focus on the umbilical nature of her dreams, in particular those featuring imagery which reaches out across unusually linked cultural, historical and religious touchstones.

Film Review: Is “A House of Dynamite” Escapist Entertainment?

October 14, 2025
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Maybe “A House of Dynamite” wants to tantalize us with a nightmare from which there is no escape in order to distract us, briefly, from the ongoing disasters that we are compelled to face and overcome.

Concert Review: With Perfect Timing, Steve Hackett Bites into Genesis’s “Lamb”

October 14, 2025
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One of the best things about the 40-minute selection from “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” that stood at the center of guitarist Steve Hackett’s near-three-hour show was its focus on the music without visual bolstering.

Book Review: “Lion Hearts” — Dan Jones Brings His Essex Dogs Saga to a Stirring Close

October 14, 2025
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Novelist Dan Jones excels in re-imagining the life of common people in wartime, in particular a small group of English fighters embroiled in the so-called Hundred Years War (1337–1453) between England and France.

Book Review: “We the People” — When Constitutional Crisis Meets Narrative Excess

October 14, 2025
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Ultimately, all of the digressions, anecdotes, and mini-profiles in “We The People” seem like an avoidance mechanism whose purpose is to steer clear of a constitutional crisis that is too painful to face.

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