Review

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pop Album Review: Beach House’s “Once Twice Melody” — Plenty of the Same Old Good Thing

March 28, 2022
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Once Twice Melody goes about refining rather than changing Beach House’s vision of dream pop.

Concert Review/Interview: America at Lowell Memorial Auditorium

March 28, 2022
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In Lowell, America played to a packed, enthusiastic, Centrum Silver-popping crowd who sang along with the band’s impressively deep roster of hits.

Opera Album Review: Saint-Saëns’s Delightful Skewering of the West’s Fantasies of Japan

March 27, 2022
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A major contribution to the recorded repertory, making clear just how effective Saint-Saëns’s The Yellow Princess could be on stage, its nowadays objectionable title repudiated by its varied and nuanced approach to the evocation of the exotic.

Book Review: “Mecca” — A Wonder of an American Canvas

March 27, 2022
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This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.

Jazz Album Review: Jean-Michel Pilc’s “Alive: Live at Dièse Onze, Montreal” — Flurries of Fascinating Ideas

March 25, 2022
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Jean-Michel Pilc is a talented pianist who expresses his happiness at just being alive via performances that treat the most revered standards in a manner that is wholly personal, even idiosyncratic — yet memorable.

Book Review: Looking Back, Fondly, on “The Modem World”

March 25, 2022
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This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand the early days of online communications.

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