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Theater Review: “SpongeBob” Tour in Boston Is Hardly Absorbing

October 20, 2019
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This is a non-union production, and that means the actors are being paid a fraction of what they would be getting if the tour were offering performers a union contract.

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Film Review: “Parasite” — Notes from the Underclass Underground

October 18, 2019
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Parasite’s powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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Author Interview: Boston’s Poet Laureate — Porsha Olayiwola

October 18, 2019
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“I wrote those poems because I think people need to read the truth and to hear the truth about romantic sensibilities between gay people.”

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Dance Review: Fernanda Ghi Dance Company — Passion, Fury, and Enigma

October 17, 2019
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Black + White from the Fernanda Ghi Dance Company was provocative, dramatic, and oh-so-mysterious.

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Book Review: “Know My Name: a memoir’ — Required Reading

October 16, 2019
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No author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way.

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Book Review: “Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem” — A Dazzling Study of the Oldest Long Poem in the World

October 16, 2019
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This is a wonderfully readable book, sure-footed in its scholarship but hip and occasionally hilarious in its tone.

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Film Review: At BUFF-o-WEEN — The “Blood & Flesh” of Al Adamson, King of the Shoestring Budget

October 16, 2019
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“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”

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WATCH CLOSELY: “El Camino” — Epilogue for an Anti-Hero

October 15, 2019
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Like Breaking Bad, El Camino subtly suggests that justice is a relative concept.

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Theater Review: A Shattering “Slave Play” Rattles Broadway  

October 15, 2019
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Jeremy O. Harris’s bold new play is wildly provocative and hysterically funny.

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Jazz Album Review: jaimie branch’s “FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise” — Into the Outer Reaches

October 11, 2019
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jaimie branch knows music has to be wild and dangerous and beautiful to cut through all the distractions of our times.

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