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Opera Review: “Eurydice” – Not a Love Story But a Father-Daughter Dirge

November 27, 2021
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Forget romance. Forget chemistry. Forget star-crossed lovers. At its heart, this Eurydice is concerned with the love between a father and a daughter.

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Poetry Reviews: Paul Muldoon and Others

November 27, 2021
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Paul Muldoon is anxious to file dispatches from the front lines of Our Lives Now. That is one of the characteristics that separates him from most other poets writing today.

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Visual Arts Review: “By Her Hand” — A Show of Women Artists that Surprises and Delights

November 26, 2021
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There were so many women artists here whose work surprises and delights. And the Wadsworth Atheneum’s decision to showcase them makes an important contribution to our evolving understanding of art and its history.

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Jazz Album Review: Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Live at the Village Vanguard

November 25, 2021
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As serious a musician as he is, and as virtuosic as he can be, the naturally extroverted Christian McBride knows how to entertain, a talent generously evident in this live performance.

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Concert Film Review: Bruce Springsteen — “The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts”

November 25, 2021
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From the pounded opening bars of “Prove It All Night,” it’s revelatory to see a young, lithe Bruce Springsteen as he prowls his domain, cocks his guitar, and belts his impassioned vignettes of blue-collar struggles and dreams.

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Book Review: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History” — Questioning the Elite

November 24, 2021
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This is an invaluable gathering of interviews, an impressive excavation of institutional memory that not only recognizes the MFA’s grandeur but its many deficiencies as well.

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WATCH CLOSELY: HBO”s “Scenes from a Marriage” — Love, Naturally

November 24, 2021
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These are people behaving badly, even while they struggle to retain their dignity.

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Film Review: “The Power of the Dog” — A Beautiful Study in Contrasts

November 24, 2021
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Director Jane Campion’s sharp adaptation of Thomas Savage’s novel focuses on the damage done to those who surrender to the alluring but pernicious “sword” of social conformity.

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Film Review: “The Scary of Sixty-First” — “Give up your shitposts which are completely useless…”

November 24, 2021
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This isn’t so much a movie as it is a micro-budget prank, and I must respect the hustle Dasha Nekrasova is pulling here even if it’s not in good taste.

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Television Review: “Tiger King 2” — A Dull Redux

November 23, 2021
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Tiger King 2 comes off as a freak show that is content to scream “look at how insane these people are!”

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