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CD Review: Hip Hop Phenom Earl Sweatshirt Delivers a Divine “Doris”

August 20, 2013
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There was a great deal of obfuscatory hype about this LP, but the time to listen to the music has finally come. And Earl Sweatshirt has delivered what sounds like a hip hop classic.

Theater Review: A Superb Staging of “This Is Our Youth” — A Perceptive Vision of American Muddle

August 20, 2013
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In this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.

Visual Arts: HarborArts “OccupyING the Present” Brings Boston Harbor to Life

August 19, 2013
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The Boston Harbor Shipyard is a nifty setting for public art, redolent of old-school fisherman and maritime work. Its fading grandeur of weatherbeaten brick buildings, crumbling facades and stern signage sometimes rivaled the formal artwork.

Book Review: “The Infatuations” — Funereal Ruminations on a Murder

August 18, 2013
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Perhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.

Visual Arts Review: Heigh-Ho — Walt Disney’s “Snow White” at the Rockwell Museum

August 18, 2013
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In four jam-packed rooms, in paper, acetate, and select video sequences, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic deconstructs the film’s artistic and technical achievement.

Film Review: “Jobs” — A Diverting But Superficial Look At the Life and Career of Steve Jobs

August 16, 2013
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Jobs is not an awful movie so much as an awkward one — it falls short of its intent, which I assume is to dramatize the tenacity of genius.

Short Fuse Book Review: “Zealot” — Jesus as Jewish Peasant and Revolutionary

August 14, 2013
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I am a secular Jew who can’t but welcome Zealot‘s conclusion that Christianity pulled a role reversal on Jesus, and made this failed revolutionary Jew into someone who eschewed his people and its traditions in favor of Roman power.

Theater Review: “Valentine Trilogy” Has a Lot of Passion but Could Use More Smarts

August 13, 2013
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So what’s a hero to do but throw punches and kicks in the name of love and forgiveness?

CD Review: Julia Holter’s “Loud City Song” — Stark Urban Beauty

August 13, 2013
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The third and latest LP from indie singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter proffers a vision of urban ecstasy.

Fuse Theater Review: Barrington Stage Company Serves up a Lavish “Much Ado”

August 12, 2013
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From the first clearly projected lines to the last, it’s obvious that director Julianne Boyd set out to direct a production of Much Ado where language rules supreme.

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