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Book Review: “Our Lady of the Nile” — Prefiguring Rwandan Genocide

August 26, 2014
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Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.

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Album Review: B L A C K I E — Conflating the Barbaric and the Beautiful

August 26, 2014
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Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World finds B L A C K I E reaching an ambitious artistic high, delivering potent pieces of jazzy discord that impressively conflate the barbaric and the beautiful.

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Theater Review: A Superbly Gritty Staging of August Wilson’s “Fences”

August 26, 2014
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Director Eric C. Engel and the Gloucester Stage Company cast gives Fences an insightful and nuanced production.

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Film Review: A Touching “Land Ho!” — We’re Not Dead Yet

August 25, 2014
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Despite a few clichéd moments, Land Ho! is the satisfying product of the natural grace that Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens have developed as filmmakers.

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Concert Review: Martha Davis and the Motels — A Well-Earned Comeback

August 25, 2014
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It was good to see Martha Davis and The Motels with a full house at Johnny D’s, especially since the group clearly has life in them.

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Theater Review: An Uneven “Texas Trilogy”

August 23, 2014
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There are some fine moments in Re:Group Theatre’s production of the epic A Texas Trilogy, but there are also many limitations.

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Rock Review: Chicago the Band — A Hard Habit to Break

August 21, 2014
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Though it doesn’t seem that Chicago will ever shake up their setlists or rediscover their original mission, at least they can still sneak just a little Varese in with the hits.

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Theater Review: “The Voysey Inheritance” — A Masterpiece About Fraud, Capitalism, and Family

August 21, 2014
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The Voysey Inheritance comes to the Peterborough Players with distinction, and this production is persuasive evidence that it belongs in a wider repertory of contemporary theater.

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Film Review: “Frank” — Wonderfully Idiosyncratic

August 21, 2014
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If Van Gogh had picked up an acoustic guitar, he’d be Frank.

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Book Review: “Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life” — Intimations of a Seminal Thinker’s Aura

August 20, 2014
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The authors have used their research well. Beyond applying an abundance of detail to trace his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Eiland and Jennings have managed to intimate—though perhaps not to capture—something more elusive: a sense of Benjamin’s aura.

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