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Book Review: Three New Novels Explore the Power of Trauma

March 31, 2015
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A trio of new novels suggest that bad as it gets may not be as bad as it can get.

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Film Review: “Salad Days: The Birth of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital”

March 31, 2015
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When no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.

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Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Amplified

March 30, 2015
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There was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey’s frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.

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Classical Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Gandolfi and Mahler

March 27, 2015
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Ascending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.

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Fuse Performance Review: Z Marks the Spot — Cirque Zíva Wows

March 27, 2015
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The Golden Dragon Acrobats’ Cirque Zíva is part dance, part acrobatics, and 100 percent spectacle.

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Book Review: Antonio Tabucchi’s “Time Ages in a Hurry” — A Diary of Dreams

March 25, 2015
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Antonio Tabucchi’s fluid style moves easily from realism to surrealism, banal conversation to poetic free association, reportage to allusion.

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Film Review: “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” — American Surrealism

March 25, 2015
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The Zellner brothers’ excellent film is inspired by a Japanese urban legend of a young woman who came to America supposedly because of Fargo, and then committed suicide in the snows.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Shades of Sound” — Energetic Versatility

March 24, 2015
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Each piece is so different from the others in Shades of Sound that the evening provides something for everyone, giving the company a chance to showcase its phenomenal technique.

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Film Review: “Winter Sleep” — Epic Lite

March 23, 2015
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Winter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.

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Book Review: “The Dirty Dust” — Voices From the Underground, Sublime, Spiteful, Satiric

March 23, 2015
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The Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.

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