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Jazz Review and Appreciation: The Music Never Stops – Betty Carter Live (Again)

May 7, 2019
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A landmark concert from 1992 is a chance to rediscover Betty Carter’s greatness, to appreciate again how this artist was special to the very essence of her soul.

TV Review: “Barry” Season Two — All Bets Are Off

May 6, 2019
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HBO’S Barry has finally started to hit its stride as a mirthfully dark comedy/drama.

Theater Review: “School Girls” — Teaching Lessons

May 6, 2019
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.

Film Review: “Bolden” — Putting Flesh on a Jazz Myth

May 5, 2019
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Bolden is an intense film, depicting a life lived in a horrifically racist time and place.

Theater Review: Another View of “Indecent” — Flat and Obvious

May 5, 2019
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In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.

Theater Review: “Caroline, or Change” — In Purgatory, All Souls Are Tested

May 4, 2019
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This evening is a revelatory experience on race relations, with grief, rage, and the whole business of hope and change.

Classical Music Reviews: The Boston Symphony’s 2018-19 Season-closing Concerts

May 4, 2019
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The final two concerts of the BSO’s season were in the orchestra’s sweet spot.

Theater Review: “Indecent” — A Dangerous World for People of Faith

May 4, 2019
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Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.

Music Review: The de-Stones’d New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 50th Anniversary

May 3, 2019
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“Forgiveness is the key and love is the answer… Have a good Jazz Fest, but also have a good life.”

Visual Arts Review: Two Fabulous Female Painters — Isabel Bishop and Emily Mae Smith

May 3, 2019
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These exhibitions present two very different ways of engaging with gender, both raising the question of gaze.

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