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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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Film Review: “Pain and Glory” — Almodovar’s Remembrance of Things Past

October 10, 2019
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What remains so seductive about Almodovar is the way he replicates the movement of thought, creating a seamless weave between the story moving forward — rather minimal in this case — and the richer, more luminous past.

Book Review: “Lampedusa” — Writing “The Leopard”

October 9, 2019
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Steven Price creates a mid-twentieth century world that is filled with the same kind of conflicts that Lampedusa himself confronted in writing The Leopard, his great novel about nineteenth century Italy.

Classical CD Review: “Free America!, Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion” — Fight the Power!

October 7, 2019
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Enjoy Boston Camerata’s Free America! for its high spirits and its crafty, delicious way of making the iconoclasm of the past come alive.

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