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Theater Review: “Barbecue” — Not Enough Meat on These Bones

April 18, 2017
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Beneath Barbecue’s jokes there’s little but a chic cynicism.

Theater Review: “Everyman” — Reinvented With Zest

April 18, 2017
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Apollinaire Theatre Company has done delightful justice to this zesty rejuvenation of a didactic dramatic chestnut.

Film Review: “Tommy’s Honour” — A Golden Boy of Golf

April 17, 2017
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Seeing the rugged minimalism of golf in its infancy was very appealing.

Book Review: “The Teeth of the Comb” — Brusque Tales of Rebellion

April 17, 2017
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These tales have an incendiary energy, but Osama Alomar handles his narrative explosives with restraint, wisdom, care, and precision.

Concert Review: Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry

April 16, 2017
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Sometimes new music isn’t really new and old music isn’t actually old; the best of it exists on some other plane entirely.

Book Review: “Shooting Creek and Other Stories” — The Presence of Evil

April 15, 2017
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These well-crafted stories are not for the faint-hearted.

Film Review: “Get Out” — A Different Kind of Horror Flick

April 14, 2017
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Get Out owes much to the small but precious film genre that dares to cultivate bizarre and hip satire.

Book Review: “The Hunger Saint” — Courage in a World of Pain

April 14, 2017
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Olivia Kate Cerrone tells this story in raw, blunt terms, in a naturalistic mode worthy of Zola.

Concert Review: Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” at the Boston Conservatory

April 13, 2017
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The Boston Conservatory production of Mass was mostly frustrating, but Leonard Bernstein’s score came across very strongly.

Classical CD Reviews: the Nash Ensemble’s Bruch and Carlos Kalmar’s Haydn

April 12, 2017
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A welcome triumph for Hyperion, Bruch, and the Nash Ensemble, but the Oregon Symphony does not do right by Haydn.

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