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Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

June 23, 2014
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Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

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Film Review: “WHITEY” — Rat or Robin Hood? Whitey in his Own Words

June 22, 2014
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By the end of the documentary, you’re in no doubt that Whitey Bulger was beneath dignity. Though not in his own eyes. There’s even vanity left in a crook who trims his white beard so scrupulously.

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Fuse Concert Review: A Fun Visit to the ’70s Classic-Rock Zone

June 21, 2014
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Classic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who’s actually onstage.

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Music Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Open Heart

June 20, 2014
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Rufus Wainwright is like that: unfiltered family love and dysfunction threaded through whammo pop tunes wrapped in the sequins of more than a little clear-to-those-who-know celebrity.

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Television Review: “Louie” at Season Four — Art House TV

June 19, 2014
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Louie is a difficult show to advertise because it is the only example of art-television at the moment.

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Theater Review: “Cassandra Speaks” — The Voice of a Crusading Journalist

June 17, 2014
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Cassandra Speaks is yet another dazzling vehicle for actor Tod Randolph, who excels in etching brilliant stage portraits of famous, complicated women.

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Visual Arts Review: “9 Artists” at MIT — Alienation, Resignation, and Despair Made Stimulating

June 17, 2014
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After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.

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Film Review: “Ida” — A Masterful Meditation on Fate and Circumstance

June 16, 2014
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Ida proffers a cinematic experience that is austere and mesmerizing.

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Theater Review: “Apt. 4D” — Beau Jest’s Sly, Comic Ode to Film Noir

June 15, 2014
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Beau Jest’s playful Apt 4D offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the creativity and imagination of the truly extraordinary theater troupe.

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Fuse Rock Concert Review: Widespread Panic Hits a Collective Groove

June 15, 2014
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Even by Widespread Panic’s intuitive standards, this was a fairly challenging show: The setlist seemed to favor their deeper, less outgoing material.

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