Review

Stage Review: A Not-So-Perfect “Future Perfect” at SpeakEasy Stage

January 15, 2015
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Playwright Ken Urban doesn’t seem to have a strong point of view about his thirtysomethings-in-a-muddle; neither does he allow them to change or grow.

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Classical CD Review: The Schneider Quartet — Heavenly Haydn

January 14, 2015
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Despite the monaural sound, these gloriously performed string quartets remain my favorite Haydn recordings.

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Book Review: “Culture Crash” — The People Who Followed Their Bliss Off a Cliff

January 13, 2015
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Truth is, the fraying of the middle class is not just something that has happened to creatives.

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Book Review: Miranda July’s “The First Bad Man” — Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

January 13, 2015
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Miranda July’s originality of vision rests on an acute (and astute) awareness of the cosmic and the quotidian.

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Fuse Concert Review: “Hot Stove, Cool Music” — A Salute to Boston’s Vintage Years

January 12, 2015
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Intentionally or not, much of the “Hot Stove, Cook Music” concert was flashback to the Boston scene 20 years ago .

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Concert Review: Yevgeny Kutik and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra’s “Russian Portraits”

January 12, 2015
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Violinist Yevgeny Kutik delivered a performance of the Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto that mined the piece’s subversive character but never shied away from its extroverted nature.

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Film Review: “The Imitation Game” — A Delicate Balance

January 11, 2015
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The Imitation Game is a movie that should have made us angry, but it merely makes us sad.

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Theater Review: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — Middle-aged Angst and Broad Humor

January 10, 2015
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While worth a look for its inspired performances, this Huntington Theatre Company production does not give us Christopher Durang at his madcap best.

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Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of Negritude.

January 8, 2015
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Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.

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Fuse Restaurant Review: Wasabi in North Cambridge — Superior Sushi

January 6, 2015
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What is served at Wasabi is so-o-o-o fresh.

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