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Concert Review: Jazz Giant Sun Ra at 100 — Space Conquers Time

May 16, 2014
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Ken Schaphorst and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts made the case for Sun Ra as an egyptologist (who claimed to be from Saturn).

Film Review: A Deliciously Prepared “Chef”

May 16, 2014
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In Chef, the preparation of delicious food becomes a metaphor for a quest for meaningful life and love.

Film Review: “The Double” — Solid, Knot-in-the-stomach, Dostoyevskian Fun.

May 16, 2014
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The movie intelligently reimagines the Dostoyevsky novella while retaining the emotional turmoil at its core. It’s a brilliantly executed pitch-black comedy.

Book Review: “A Place in the Country” — A Heady Tour of W.G. Sebald Country

May 15, 2014
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It seems deeply appropriate that a superb book of essays by W.G. Sebald about his favorite writers should be his swan song.

Music Review: “Sugar Man” Rodriguez — The (Finally Famous) Mexican-American Singer-Songwriter from Detroit Comes to Boston

May 15, 2014
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Whether it was intended or not, Searching for Sugar Man did more than delve into the past of Sixto Rodriguez; it created his future.

Film Review: “Locke” — Hell on Wheels

May 15, 2014
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All that WASP self-reliance and fortitude, and I, the Jew, am thinking, “Isn’t anyone getting hungry? Doesn’t anyone want to use the potty?”

Concert Review: Television — Still in its Own Orbit After Thirty Years

May 14, 2014
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The band was still Television and often as not, still magnificent.

Poetry Review: Translations of Two Wild Russian Poets, Their Flair Restored

May 14, 2014
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New translations of Soviet-era poets Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vladislav Khodasevich ask us to restore them to their rightful places in Russian and international literature .

Theater Review: “Sontag: Reborn” — A Song of Herself

May 13, 2014
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Dramatically speaking, Sontag: Reborn fails to treat a flawed iconoclast with the necessary creative playfulness. Hush, Saint Susan Aborning!

Visual Arts Review: A “Street Talk” That Stresses Harmony Rather Confrontation

May 13, 2014
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Chris Daze Ellis takes a serious risk. If you hang your work next to Berenice Abbott’s, it had better be as brilliantly framed, as firmly direct, and as perfectly focused as hers.

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