Review

Film Review: “A United Kingdom” — Far More than a Love Story

March 24, 2017
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A United Kingdom‘s astute reflections on racial and economic realpolitik makes this film far more than a love story.

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Film Review: “Personal Shopper” — An Enigma Wrapped in a Seance

March 24, 2017
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Personal Shopper poses questions about how technology and fashion are skewing our relationships and obliterating traditional notions of identity.

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Concert Review: Men at Work’s Colin Hay — Solo Success Achieved

March 23, 2017
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Colin Hay need no longer worry about job security as a touring and recording artist.

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Theater Review: “Papermaker” — Elegy for a Maine Mill Town

March 22, 2017
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Penobscot Theatre Company is staging Monica Wood’s moving and thoughtful play about a real life labor dispute in Maine.

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Theater Review: Lincoln in the Shooting Gallery – “Topdog/Underdog” at The Huntington Theatre Company

March 20, 2017
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This is a wonderful production of an important play that still has a dog in the fight.

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Book Review: The “Inexhaustibility” of Angela Carter

March 20, 2017
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May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.

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CD Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band — “Live From the Fox Oakland”

March 20, 2017
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So much goes on over the course of Live From the Fox Oakland that the TTB upends the notion of a band “settling” into a sound.

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Book Review: Nuff Said? — “What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing”

March 20, 2017
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 Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.

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Jazz Review: Jason Anick and Jason Yeager — A “United” Front

March 19, 2017
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Jason Anick, on violin and mandolin, and Jason Yeager, on piano, showed off just how exhilarating it can be to kick down musical walls.

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Theater Review: “Silent Sky” — Cosmic Wonder, Captured

March 17, 2017
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Silent Sky is a moving and thoughtful play; it is well worth the gaze of any serious theatergoer.

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