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Theater Review: Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” Finds Its Knife-Edge at Gloucester Stage

July 14, 2026
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This crisp revival turns emotional recoil, backward chronology, and elegant restraint into a sharp study of infidelity.

Jazz Album Review: Guitarist Eric Hofbauer’s High Concept Yields Deep Rewards

July 14, 2026
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Eric Hofbauer and EHX turn a wide-ranging songbook into a cohesive, emotionally charged jazz narrative.

Book Review: “The Selected Letters of Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison” — Two Writers, One Rare Friendship

July 14, 2026
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These letters between Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison offer a moving portrait of literary life, daily labor, and mutual devotion

Book Review: “Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story” – Renaissance Guitar Man

July 12, 2026
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Jeff Beck is a bigger guitar hero than you realized.

Television Review: This Time Around, A Wilder Prairie

July 10, 2026
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Strong performances and sharper realism redefine Little House on the Prairie for a new generation.

Dance Review: The Akram Khan Company — Remembering, Selectively

July 10, 2026
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In “Thrikra: Night of Remembering,” Akram Khan’s searing imagery of female ritual and sacrifice is shadowed by what the work chooses not to confront.

Tribeca Film Festival, Part Two: Addicts on Chelsea (MA) Streets, Love and Death at Sea, and Micronations 

July 10, 2026
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At the Tribeca Film Festival, two dramas stood out among the narrative films—stark, street-level tales of addiction and a wintry queer love story turned murder mystery set on a Canadian ship.

Jazz Concert Review: East Coasting

July 10, 2026
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The Bevan Manson Trio surfs some cool waves

Book Review: “Hujar: Contact” — The Captivating Tip of a Photographic Iceberg

July 9, 2026
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A trove of contact sheets reveals Peter Hujar’s working method, restless eye, and the breadth of an underseen archive.

Book Review: Beyond the Canon — How Cultural Authority Is Made

July 7, 2026
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“Move Over, Mona Lisa” maps the “inequality pipeline” linking museums, publishing, and academia—and challenges the systems that shape what the world sees and reads.

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