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Jazz Concert Review: Eliane Elias — One of a Kind

June 11, 2025
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The magic in Eliane Elias’s performances is in how easily she slips from one musical dialect into another.

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Visual Arts Review: Experiments in Rural Drawing at the Clark

June 10, 2025
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Surprisingly, the 17th- and 18th-century drawings and prints in “Pastoral on Paper” proffer bold experiments in charcoal, chalk, and gouache.

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Latin Jazz Album Review: Noteworthy Albums from Alex “Apolo” Ayala, Unity Quartet, and Adam O’Farrill

June 9, 2025
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A trio of superb albums run the stylistic gauntlet, from the traditional to the experimental. 

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Film Review: “The Phoenician Scheme” — Visions from a Mad Magician’s Toy Box

June 8, 2025
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Bottom line: for all of “The Phoenician Scheme”‘s visual glories, the whimsical portrait of a shady arms dealer who becomes a mensch in the bosom of family rings hollow — especially at the present moment.

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Book Review: “Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie” — A World, Hell and Heaven Included

June 8, 2025
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Over the decades, James Lee Burke has built up a distinctive and glorious body of work, and “Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie” is a notable addition to the canon and possibly his most comprehensive.

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Book Review: “Émile Zola: A Determined Life” — Naturalist, Reformer, Visionary

June 7, 2025
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What our planet needs now is the reincarnation of a writer who, while combing through the nooks and crannies of society for painful truths, uses depictions of the present to demand future changes.

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Theater Review: “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” — Still Potent

June 5, 2025
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Overall, this is a satisfying production of a turn-of-the-century play that still underlines enduring economic inequity.

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Poetry Reviews: A Roundup of New Volumes from New Orleans Poets

June 5, 2025
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Let’s look at a fresh crop of collections by poets who are either born and raised or have made their homes in NOLA, stopping to admire the architecture and the scope, the heft and the breadth of their lines.

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Visual Art Review: “Dream Upon the River” — Boston’s Public Art Is Blooming

June 5, 2025
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Viewing the art while strolling along the Muddy River gives city-dwellers and visitors a reason to linger and enjoy one of the city’s oldest and most beautiful open spaces.

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Concert Review: The Boston Pops’ Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration — Challenging Terrain

June 4, 2025
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The challenge for the Boston Pops in this program is obvious: combining the structure of orchestral music with the improvisational nature of Garcia’s work. On Tuesday, the pairing of rock band and orchestra proved to be uneven, groovy interludes interlaced with tentative patches.

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