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Book Review: “Nicotine” — A Fresh Take on Addiction

February 27, 2017
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A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.

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Dance Review: At the Boston Ballet — Ballet as Drama

February 26, 2017
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Like a lot of first efforts by prospective masters, Artifact is loaded with ideas.

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Theater Review: “Informed Consent” — When Science and Ethics Collide

February 25, 2017
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Informed Consent is the smartest play I’ve seen hit Boston area stages since the new year began.

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Theater Review: “Women in Jeopardy!” — Critic Left Unconcerned

February 24, 2017
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The MRT production marches clumsily along the fine line of being funny and knowing it is funny.

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Film Review: “The Red Turtle” — A Singular Talent

February 24, 2017
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The Red Turtle is a poem to individual visual artistry and not to the anonymous machinery of technology.

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Theater Review: Zeitgeist Stage Company’s “Exit Strategy” — Tales Out of School

February 23, 2017
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Can the smothered idealism of the teachers be rekindled? Will the school be saved if students and faculty join together?

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Book Review: “The Shipwrecked Mind” — Leaving the Carnage Behind

February 23, 2017
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Mark Lilla argues that the creed of the reactionary mind can be just as radical (and disturbing) as any revolutionary ideology.

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Book Review: “The Year of the Comet” — Surviving History

February 22, 2017
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This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.

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Book Review and Commentary: Albert Murray’s Non-fiction – A Balm in Columbia

February 21, 2017
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At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.

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Dance Review: At the ICA, Alessandro Sciarroni’s FOLK-S Mesmerizes

February 21, 2017
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The performance turned out to be a nervy but hypnotic game of endurance for performer and audience members.

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