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Album Review: Oneohtrix Point Never’s “R Plus Seven” — Music That Draws You In

October 6, 2013
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With this LP, Daniel Lopatin has crafted an immaculate aural landscape that one can (and will want to) lose oneself in for hours.

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Book Review: “The Stray Bullet” — William S. Burroughs Discovers His Ugly Spirit in Mexico

October 4, 2013
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Between the heroin, booze, and all else that Mexico had to offer, there was little to no time for William S. Burroughs to appreciate the culture of his adopted home.

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Film Review: “Who Takes Away the Sins: Witnesses to Clergy Abuse” — Anatomy of a Cover-Up

October 1, 2013
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It’s heartening to see a major Catholic institution like Boston College get behind a documentary that, without mercy, attacks the Boston Diocese for its sinful coverup of priest abuse of children.

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Jazz Album Review: Fred Hersch and Julian Lage — Gloriously “Free Flying”

September 29, 2013
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One of the remarkable aspects of these duets is that almost nowhere is either player — Fred Hersch or Julian Lage — reduced to mere comping.

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Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler’s Symphony no. 2

September 28, 2013
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If Thursday’s performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus was marked by some untidiness, the broad picture to emerge was one of often thrilling, Apollonian grandeur.

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Film Review: “Blue Caprice” — A Scary Evocation of Killing Field Senselessness

September 27, 2013
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Director-writer Alexandre Moors, a Parisian living in New York City, builds a credible narrative story of the killer team in the months before their death spree.

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Concert Review: Travis Live at House of Blues — Standing Tall

September 26, 2013
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“Return to form” is a little too easy, but if you miss the “old” Travis, then the new album, Where You Stand, is the one you’ve been waiting for.

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Classical CD Reviews: Michael Gandolfi’s From the Institutes of Groove and Jacob Druckman’s Lamia (BMOP Sound)

September 25, 2013
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Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) have been on something of a recording tear of late.

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Film Review: “Far From Vietnam” — A Remarkable Anti-War Film

September 25, 2013
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Far From Vietnam dared say what no American documentary, even the most radical, would insinuate for fear of being accused of treason: in Vietnam, the Americans were the new Germans.

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Movie Review: “The Legend of Cool ‘Disco’ Dan — Graffiti Master

September 25, 2013
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With an eclectic visual style that includes animation, and narration spoken with conviction by D.C. native Henry Rollins, The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan tries to accentuate the positive.

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