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Fuse Album Review: of Montreal’s Latest — An Astonishingly Raw Affair

September 16, 2013
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Lousy with Sylvianbriar proves that of Montreal is still fully capable of crafting catchy and rollicking rock songs when it wants to.

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Theater Review: “The Libertine” Serves Up Decadent Pleasures

September 14, 2013
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Playwright Stephen Jeffreys, despite his gifts as a writer, seems unable to find the dramatic stakes in his play.

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Film Review: Contrived “Family” Values

September 13, 2013
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While it has its highlights, The Family limits our frame of reference to other movies, rather than anything resembling real life.

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Theater Review: “One Man, Two Guvnors” — From Brighton to Boston

September 12, 2013
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Director Spiro Veloudos keeps the clockwork running smoothly, not just ensuring that that the actors keep the rhythm, but making use of a skilled backstage crew who engineer (miraculously and on time) scenery and costume changes.

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Visual Arts Review: “Historias: Latin American Works on Paper” — An Invitation to Expand Your Horizons

September 12, 2013
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The breath of contemporary Latin American visual art, as shown in this splendid exhibition, is vast.

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Book Review: Herbert Huncke — The “American Hipster” Who Influenced The Beat Movement

September 11, 2013
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Hilary Holladay’s biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored.

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Theater Review: Women Rule at Canada’s Stratford Festival

September 10, 2013
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While luminary thespians and film stars such as Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer have trod the Stratford Festival boards, let me sing the praises of two actresses: Martha Henry and Michelle Giroux.

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Album Review: Arctic Monkeys — Music for the Wee Hours of the “AM”

September 9, 2013
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AM, the Sheffield band’s fifth album and their heaviest and danciest to date, isn’t for pre-gaming, or the start of the party. It’s for the wee hours, when the fog is thickest and you should really know better but just can’t help yourself.

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Theater Review: A Devilishly Good “Major Barbara” at Canada’s Shaw Festival

September 8, 2013
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The quality of this production of Major Barbara and the seriousness which with the Shaw Festival addresses every aspect of theater makes the long trip from Boston to Niagara-on- the-Lake well worth the while.

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Film Review: “Terraferma” — From Italy With the Best of Intentions

September 5, 2013
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Terraferma is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.

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