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Dance Review: The Stephen Petronio Company — Creating Fascinating Structures of Dance

November 17, 2013
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I was mesmerized by the coherence of the shifting patterns, their ideas so clearly presented, even though the work by no means provided more than a suggestion of a story.

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Theater Review: Israeli Stage Brings “The Whore From Ohio” to Boston

November 16, 2013
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“The Whore From Ohio” is a provocative reminder that the same creature that is born to eat, drink, copulate, rot, and die is also a creature that dreams, tells stories, contemplates its own existence, and attends the theater.

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Book Review: “Some Day” — A Memorable First Novel about Waiting for Love

November 16, 2013
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In “Some Day,” Shemi Zarhin has masterfully woven together a tangle of bittersweet tales and elusive dreams. it is a book that is a pleasure to read and reread.

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Theater Review: “The After-Dinner Joke” — How We are Out-Sourcing Our Consciences

November 15, 2013
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British dramatist Caryl Churchill proffers a valuable line of satiric attack on our delusions of doing good, so it is easy to forgive the dramatist her broad and scattershot comic approach.

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Film Review: “The Broken Circle Breakdown” — Hang on for the Second Half

November 14, 2013
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The first half of “The Broken Circle Breakdown” is directed in the most conventional way. In the better second half, the leads dig deeply into their characters, sing bluegrass wonderfully.

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Book Review: “Wail” — A Great Biography of Jazz Legend Bud Powell

November 13, 2013
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Peter Pullman deplores (without bathos) the wreckage of Bud Powell’s life and mourns (without tears) the consequent loss of so much masterful music. And his story of Powell’s life is even grimmer than the one we have previously been told.

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Concert Review: A Prodigy Who Delivers the Goods — Benjamin Grosvenor

November 10, 2013
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I have seen my share of prodigies and their gushing PR. So I was pleasantly surprised when Benjamin Grosvenor, an unassuming youth in a white shirt and black pants, walked out and played with beauty and style.

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Visual Arts Review: Picasso in Boxer Shorts — Red Grooms at Yale

November 10, 2013
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Red Grooms specializes in high art cartooning with a nod to ideas about time, personality, and the formation of coteries that bear close investigation, or as curator Lisa Hodermarsky’s notes, invite visitors to belly up to the bar.

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Fuse Book Review: “The Measures Between Us” — A Promising But Scattershot First Novel

November 8, 2013
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We are left with a somewhat scattered narrative written in the third person with an omniscient narrator that moves from one inner life to another, sometimes to good effect, and sometimes leaving the reader stranded.

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Film Review: “Let the Fire Burn” — An Important Political Film

November 6, 2013
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em>Historic footage—from newsreels, TV stations once-live coverage, from several investigating commissions- has been edited, brilliantly into a coherent, important political film.

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