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Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Gallery of Kings” — Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300

June 17, 2025
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Through story, song, missives, and popular gibes at authority, the Boston Camerata program looked at kings remembered for their great deeds and those commemorated for their bumbling idiocy.

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Film Reviews: This Year’s Provincetown Film Festival — Exploding with Queer-Subject Features and Documentaries

June 17, 2025
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This year was the 27th annual festival, and blessed as always by the fairy-dust magical presence of summertime resident John Waters.

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Film Review: “Lavender Men” — A Spotlight on Gaybraham Lincoln

June 17, 2025
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Considering the determination of the current administration to send America back to the 19th century (or even earlier, perhaps to the Dark Ages), “Lavender Men” supplies an entertaining — and valuable — history lesson.

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Film Review: Dialectical “Materialists”

June 16, 2025
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Director Celine Song beats the romantic comedy to death.

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Concert Review: Sam Grisman Project and Peter Rowan — Seizing the Moment

June 15, 2025
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There were unscripted song selections whose daring and heart made this concert so much more than a night of old beloved tunes.

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Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — Inspired by Nature

June 13, 2025
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Boston Dance Theater is driven by the belief that a community is strengthened by an exchange of ideas.

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Visual Arts Review: Great Gallery Shows for Free in NYC – Picasso and Kentridge

June 13, 2025
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Two art exhibitions in New York should be seen multiple times. Each will deepen your appreciation of a great artist. Neither is mobbed with visitors. Each, in this wildly overpriced city, is absolutely free.

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Theater Reviews: Berkshires Roundup — In Touch With Reality

June 13, 2025
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A trio of companies — Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival — draw on the stage’s power to address our current political emergencies.

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Doc Talk: Fame and Obscurity at PIFF

June 12, 2025
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If the destiny of documentaries is to become celebrity profiles, it could do worse than those screening at this year’s PIFF.

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Film Review: “Barron’s Cove” — A Thriller Steeped in Grief

June 12, 2025
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The film offers some intriguing twists and turns, and the excellent cast propels the narrative forward admirably. But the screenplay tries a bit too hard to dramatize character transformations in a short period of time.

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