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Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — The Warrior Femmes

December 4, 2018
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Boston Dance Theater’s four pieces seemed to counter female stereotypes but raised limited alternatives.

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Film Review: “Becoming Astrid” — An Ode to Perseverance

December 3, 2018
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This is one of the year’s most heartwarming films; it is not sentimental, but projects a profound sense of resilient joy at its heart.

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Book Review: “America: The Farewell Tour” — Has Our Ship Already Sailed?

December 2, 2018
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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

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CD Review: “Boosie Blues Cafe” — Rap Reaches Back to the Past

December 1, 2018
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How will others in the Southern hip-hop scene react to this embrace of tradition by a Southern rapper with his feet firmly in the Gangsta Rap arena?

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Jazz CD Review: The Kelly Green Trio — Flexing Musical Muscles

November 30, 2018
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Kelly Green and her trio are essentially mainstream players, but they explore a lot of challenging territory within that framework.

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Opera Review: BEMF’s Utterly Captivating “Alcina”

November 30, 2018
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When it comes to raising high spirits, the BEMF’s delightful Alcina was an inspired choice.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Orson Welles — “The Other Side of the Wind”

November 29, 2018
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The Other Side of the Wind may inspire brooding melancholy in some, but it’s also pretty damned fine.

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Book Review: Diane Williams, Flash Fiction, and the Shrinking Short Story

November 27, 2018
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Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.

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Book Review: Learning from the Master — Elie Wiesel

November 27, 2018
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“I still remember; I sat in his class, and I felt my future changing as he spoke.”

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Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Symphony Hall

November 27, 2018
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Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I’ve heard all year.

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