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Electronic Music Review: Múm’s The Word

September 24, 2013
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While Múm sometimes succumbs to the monotony that’s a predictable risk for chill electronic acts, in Smilewound the group has brought together a set of intricately-crafted folktronic songs that are always enjoyable, and occasionally even breathtaking.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Season Opener — Johannes Brahms

September 23, 2013
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In conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, the BSO has one of its most trusted guests and thoughtful collaborators.

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Concert Review: The Cantata Singers Celebrates its Fiftieth Season — Bach to the Future

September 23, 2013
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The jam-packed audience for the opening performance of the fiftieth season was filled with Cantata Singers old timers.

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Concert Review: Jake Bugg Live at the Paradise Rock Club

September 23, 2013
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The crowd at the Paradise Rock Club was awful, and whether Jake Bugg noticed this or not, it caused him to turn in a pretty mediocre performance.

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Visual Arts Review: Courbet’s Mighty Power — His Art and Its Influence On Other Artists

September 22, 2013
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A wide swath of Belgian and American artists became interested in Courbet’s attention to the humble subject and his distinctive handling of paint. Mapping Realism examines how and whom.

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Theater Review: “Dog Paddle” — An Elegant Comedy about Inelegantly Keeping Your Head Above Water

September 22, 2013
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Swiss Stage’s inaugural offering was Dog Paddle (Schwimmen wie Hunde), a domestic comedy based on existential themes, by the German-speaking playwright Reto Finger.

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Book Review: Two Disturbing But Disappointing Books on Why Women Drink

September 21, 2013
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There are hundreds of studies to be analyzed and many experts who could have been interviewed in depth, but both authors have chosen to write breezy books that can be characterized as “journalism-lite.”

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Short Fuse Book Review: “Dissident Gardens” — Fantasy Meets Radical Politics

September 21, 2013
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It’s hard to grasp how Jonathan Lethem assimilated all this material — historical and fantastic — and gave it new narrative life in Dissident Gardens, except by granting, to start with, his special genius for absorption.

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Theater Review: Learning the Language of “Tribes”

September 19, 2013
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Dramatist Nina Raine probes the complex nature of tribal affinities, delicately examining how precariously communication depends on whether people listen to one another carefully, or not.

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Poetry Review: The Dark of Love –The Poetry of Patrizia Cavalli

September 18, 2013
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If Patrizia Cavalli’s poetry is egocentric, even probably autobiographical, its narrator shows a detachment enabling her to observe herself from one remove, even when she describes herself in the élans of attraction.

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