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Book Review: “Queer Lens” – Let the Record Show

September 5, 2025
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By Trevor Fairbrother The Queer Lens project made me think about queer culture and camera culture as distinct phenomena that began in the Victorian era: each was a manifestation of modernity. The latest exhibition that Paul Martineau has curated at the J. Paul Getty Museum is titled Queer Lens: A History of Photography and features…

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Film Review: “Boys Go to Jupiter” — The Florida Project

September 4, 2025
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It’s up to us to champion films like “Boys Go to Jupiter,” which push the medium into exciting new territory when AI slop is literally banging at the door.

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Visual Arts Review: Beauford Delaney and Representation — “In the Medium of Life”

September 4, 2025
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This show demonstrates how Beauford Delaney absorbed lessons from modernism in order to create a unique abstract style that remained committed to representation. 

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Rock Album Review: “Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live at LOCKN’)” — Inspired Rock ’n’ Soul History

September 3, 2025
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This is a very welcome document, full of compelling performances and layers of rock ’n’ soul history that will hopefully prove foundational for yet another generation of players interested in reaching for the good stuff.

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Children’s Book Reviews: Fall Is Here

September 3, 2025
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Two books that deal with different rituals of autumn.

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Latin Jazz Album Reviews: Sumptuously Satisfying Sounds from Roger Glenn and Mike Freeman

September 2, 2025
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Recommendations for albums from multi-instrumentalist Roger Glenn and vibraphonist Mike Freeman.

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Book Review” “Trip” — Tour Through an Undiscovered Country

September 2, 2025
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A giddily inventive, surreally hilarious, and sometimes profound debut novel.

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Concert Review: Boston Landmarks Orchestra Closes Its Season with Its First Ever Performance of Mahler’s First Symphony

September 1, 2025
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The Boston Landmarks Orchestra offered a rousing valediction for a summer season drawing to a close.

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Film Review: “The Thursday Murder Club” — Geriatric Bloodhounds

August 30, 2025
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Considering the chaotic state the world is in, there is something to be said for this kind of film — a nice little movie that supplies a welcome pick-me-up

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Book Review: “Film Noir” — Taking an illuminating Walk on the Dark Side of Cinema

August 30, 2025
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Film noir’s penetrating, knowing diagnosis of, and response to, corruption and venality prepares us for the dank turpitude that lurks in places both highfalutin and hidden.

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