Review

Jazz CD Review: “Hudson” — Free Jazz in the Summer of Love

July 29, 2017
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Hudson serves up varied, fresh, and exciting free jazz that imaginatively draws on rock, funky blues, and folk music.

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Film Review: “Landline” — A Compelling Comedy-With-Drama

July 28, 2017
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Landline is a textured, often funny and subtly acted portrait of a family experiencing rumblings set off by sexual affairs.

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Dance Review: Skeleton Architecture — Embracing the Silence

July 27, 2017
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I enjoyed the working-out of all this material, and the beautiful dancers, but I sometimes felt I was back in the consciousness-raising ’60s and ’70s.

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Visual Arts Review: “Vibrations: A Sound Experience” at Boston Cyberarts Gallery

July 26, 2017
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With Vibrations: A Sound Experience, Boston CyberArts continued to live up to its demanding mandate — to expand our artistic horizons.

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Book Review: “The Flaherty Seminar” — A History of Cinematic Contention

July 26, 2017
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It’s probably unfair, but attending the Flaherty, I kept seeing in my mind the pig Napoleon and his attack dogs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

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Classical Music Review: A Bleak “Black Monk” at Tanglewood

July 25, 2017
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It is my sad duty to report that an evening which looked so promising was hardly a worthy homage to an important musical figure of the 20th century.

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Theater Review: A Superb “Clean House” at The Williamstown Theatre Festival

July 25, 2017
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This is a masterful production of Sarah Ruhl’s sparkling update of Commedia dell’arte.

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Theater Review: “Waiting for Waiting for Godot” — No Exit From the Green Room

July 24, 2017
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Dave Hanson’s comic confection, Waiting for Waiting for Godot, is generating plenty of giggles in the back room theater at Club Café.

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Film Review: “Dunkirk” — Overwhelming Immediacy

July 23, 2017
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The Wermacht cut its swathe through France at a rate that amazed Winston Churchill in no small part because it was on speed.

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Film Tribute: George Romero — A Legacy of Blood, Invention, and Survival

July 23, 2017
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Even after death, the human instinct is to kill or be killed.

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