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Film Reviews: A Not-So Short Dispatch on Short Films at the Boston Underground Film Festival

April 3, 2022
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I’m happy to report that the local scene has lost none of its eccentricity thanks to a deluge of talented filmmakers and animators with a taste for the offbeat. Stay weird Boston!

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April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

April 2, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Banksy Didn’t Authorize This

April 1, 2022
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When you go to the Art of Banksy website it is immediately clear that Banksy himself had nothing to do with this traveling show.

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Book Review: On Our Love Affair With Catastrophe — So Long as it is Happening to Someone Else

April 1, 2022
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David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.

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Opera Album Review: The “Fidelio” Story a Year Before Beethoven’s Opera — and in Italian

March 30, 2022
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A new recording of Ferdinando Paër’s Leonora gives us characters we love (or love to hate) in a fresh light

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Bluegrass Album Review: Molly Tuttle — Blurring the Boundaries between the Folksy and the Exploratory

March 29, 2022
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Crooked Tree is the Molly Tuttle record we’ve been waiting for, one that is firmly rooted in bluegrass, but imbued with her own sharp style as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Film Review: “X” – The Texas Grindhouse Massacre

March 29, 2022
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X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.

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Book Review: The Climate Crisis and the “Race for Tomorrow”

March 29, 2022
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If there is one book to pick up that will get you interested in what is happening to our climate, Race for Tomorrow is it.

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Book Review: “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language” — Finding Multitudes of Meaning

March 29, 2022
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To always be listening more and to therefore always be listening differently is of course the very nature of fandom, and to call What’s Good the work of a fan is not a putdown.

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Arts Commentary: The Oscars 2022 — No Longer So White, But Still Not So Hot

March 29, 2022
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It was soon clear what Oscar was after: two separate younger demographics — one with plebeian cinematic tastes, the other with hip politics.

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