Review

Film Review: “In Bloom” — Girls, Guys, and a Gun

April 13, 2014
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“In Bloom” is one of the best features to come out of Eastern Europe in recent times.

Dance Review: “The Shape She Makes” — A Complex, Eloquent Hybrid of Dance and Theater

April 12, 2014
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“The Shape She Makes” proffers an eloquent fusion of language and movement that pushes the boundaries of dance and theater without embracing the opaqueness that marks so many experimental productions.

Film Review: “The Unknown Known” — As Insanely Entertaining as a Mad Hatter Tea Party.

April 11, 2014
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My first thought: filming Donald Rumsfeld can only be rationalized if it’s a front for a citizen’s arrest.

Theater Review: “Nalaga’at” (Please Touch) — A Daring Dramatic Struggle Against Absence

April 10, 2014
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Theater is a public art. And yet, the irony here is that the most profound communication between individuals can be the least publicly communicable.

Visual Arts Review: “Dear Boston” — A Moving Memorial to the First Anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing

April 9, 2014
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It is difficult to describe how moving these simple, mundane objects are in the context of this exhibition.

Book Review: “To the End of the Land” — A Work of Art About Israel, Fear, and Love

April 9, 2014
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“To the End of the Land” is about the devastation of war, how war erodes the human spirit, yet how that spirit is far more resilient that we may have ever suspected.

Book Review: David Grossman’s “Falling Out of Time” — It Takes A Village

April 7, 2014
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“Falling Out of Time” is a book that gives all the truth that Israeli writer David Grossman can deliver, and far more intimacy than we strangers who are his readers have earned.

Theater Review: “In Between” — An Amusingly Serious Look Into the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

April 5, 2014
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Multi-talented performer Ibrahim Miari has written an insightful and funny one-man show that draws on his own life as the son of an Israeli Jewish mother and Palestinian Moslem father born in what is now the Israeli city of Akko.

Film Review: “Anita” — Anita Hill’s Story For A New Generation

April 5, 2014
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Anita Hill’s struggle is an essential piece of modern cultural and political history that remains painfully relevant.

Concert Review: Dumpstaphunk — A Superb New Orleans Funk Band That Wants to Change the World

April 5, 2014
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A sensitive folkie may tell you to get beyond your negativity; these guys tell you to “take all that bullshit and put it in the dumpsta.”

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