Review

Fuse Concert Review: Håkan Hardenberger and Andris Nelsons at Symphony Hall

November 17, 2014
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Saturday’s attendance hopefully warms the hearts of the BSO’s management. Not only was the house very full, but the assembly also included a healthy proportion of younger heads.

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Poetry Review: “Long Way Back to the End” — Zero to the Icy Bone

November 17, 2014
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American poet Paul B. Roth is keenly aware that a striking phrase can set a dream in motion.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: The Savage Cartoonistas at RISD — What A Nerve!

November 16, 2014
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What Nerve! takes an innovative and fresh take on a little-noticed but piquant tributary of American art.

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Fuse Theater Review: “The Real Thing” — A Play That Resonates with Reality

November 15, 2014
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The Real Thing’s discussion of linguistic precision may be telling now in ways that dramatist Tom Stoppard may not have anticipated.

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Fuse CD Review: Charles Lloyd’s Indelible “Manhattan Stories”

November 15, 2014
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Despite their somewhat muffled sound, both discs are valuable documents, not least because we hear the under-recorded Gabor Szabo in duet with Charles Lloyd.

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Theater Review: “Awake and Sing!”? Too Much Bickering

November 15, 2014
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In this production, intractable conflicts occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried beneath family squabbling.

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Book Review: “The Pushcart War” — One for the 99%

November 14, 2014
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First published in 1964, Jean Merrill’s classic children’s novel has just been reissued by New York Review Books to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

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Concert Review: Stevie Wonder at the TD Garden — A Thing of Beauty

November 14, 2014
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Not all musical retrospectives are a guaranteed success, since time can put rust on many a talent, but Stevie Wonder was ebulliently up for the challenge.

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Film Review: Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” — A Film of Skill and Passion

November 14, 2014
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Rosewater is a movie for the idealists, with the implied hope that a principled and conscientious mass media can give the new breed of technologically savvy activists a louder voice.

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Book Review: Jack Kerouac in Mexico — Fiction Dressed as Fact

November 13, 2014
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Reading this book is like listening to a lively conversation from a self-proclaimed Kerouac authority giving his opinions over a café con leche late at night at Cafe Pamplona in Harvard Square.

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