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Dance Review: United Dance Company — Breaking Down Barriers, Beautifully

March 11, 2025
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The five performers with Down syndrome danced along with three professionally trained dancers without disabilities — and they all looked wonderful.

Book Review: Peter Wolf’s “Waiting on the Moon” — A Captivating Memoir by Boston’s Own Zelig

March 10, 2025
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Timelines bounce a bit through the loosely organized, vignette-rooted book, where the back half casually weaves through a checklist of characters and tales not to be missed.

Film Review: “Botticelli’s Primavera” — One of the Great Picture-Puzzles of the Italian Renaissance

March 10, 2025
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The stunning painting is beautifully presented in this documentary, but the flood of references to other works of art and quotations from classical and Renaissance writers might make the film a bit slow going for someone with no background at all in Renaissance cultural history.

Jazz Concert Review: A Moody and Skeletal Evening from a Select Trio

March 10, 2025
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A unique, memorable summit of three intellectually minded luminaries who bridged jazz, classical, Latin and South Asian influences.

Classical Album Review: Handel’s Oratorio “Jephtha,” in All its Highly Dramatic Glory

March 8, 2025
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Conductor Jane Glover, marvelous soloists — including superstar countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen — and a superb chorus and orchestra invigorate one of Handel’s last and greatest works.

Doc Talk: “Chaos” Reigns

March 8, 2025
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Errol Morris takes another look at Helter Skelter and the Charles Manson murders.

Film Review: “There’s Still Tomorrow” — Hearing Women’s Voices

March 7, 2025
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Director/actress Paola Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow” is yet another bold cinematic plea for women’s rights.

Book Review: Social Critic Jackson Lears Cheers the “Off-Modern”

March 7, 2025
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Jackson Lears’s collection of essays and book reviews gets a few things right in its description of various kooks, oddballs, and mavericks who sometimes succeeded in moving history in their direction. But it gets far more wrong.

Film Review: “Mickey 17” — Kicking Capitalism in the Teeth

March 6, 2025
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Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” is one of the most vicious, cruel, and savagely arch vivisections of our global economic and socio-political reality since… well… Bong’s 2013 movie “Snowpiercer”.

Theater Review: “A Man of No Importance” — Love Is a Many Complicated Thing

March 5, 2025
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“A Man of No Importance” is a fitting finale for Paul Daigneault’s tenure as Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Stage Company because it is a paean to the power of theater as both an artistic expression and a place to discover community.

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