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Jazz Album Review: Ize Trio’s “The Global Suites” — Exuberantly and Deliberately International

August 2, 2024
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Made up of a Californian, a Palestinian, and a native of Cyprus, Ize Trio is about probing into the meaning of cultural differences as well as learning each other’s personal characteristics.

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Book Review: “Happy Apocalypse” — A License to Pollute for Profit

August 2, 2024
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This book argues that environmental and industrial regulations, in place since the early 19th century, weren’t devised to reign in environmental destruction or workplace dangers.

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Theater Review: “Ben Butler” — A Verbally Dexterous Comedy About Serious Business

August 1, 2024
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This production brings the Peterborough Players back in line with their own best traditions: entertaining, thoughtful, delightfully irreverent.

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Music Festival Review: The Newport Folk Festival — Not Tired, By a Long Shot

July 31, 2024
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The Newport Folk Festival always pulls off unique, unexpected collaborations, while it embraces a head-spinning lineup of diverse genres that reflects its spirit of community.

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Dance Review: Moses Pendleton’s MOMIX Make a Delightful Return to Jacob’s Pillow

July 30, 2024
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For MOMIX’S performance at Jacob’s Pillow, Moses Pendelton assembled a “greatest hits” selection of sixteen vignettes from the troupe’s oeuvre.

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Film Review: Tongues Are Untied in “Kneecap”

July 30, 2024
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A frenetic, funny, foul-mouthed, and sometimes facile testament to the fact that language matters.

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Latin Jazz Album Reviews: Three From Brazil With Love

July 30, 2024
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Any aficionado of Brazilian music and jazz will find plenty to be delighted by in these three discs. 

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Jazz Album Review: Jeff Scott’s “Passion for Bach and Coltrane”

July 29, 2024
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A belated appreciation of one of 2023’s most interesting releases – this Grammy-winning “compendium” may not be a strongly unified work, but its individual parts are eloquent residents of the Place Between classical and jazz.

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Theater Review: A Warm-Hearted “Winter’s Tale”

July 28, 2024
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A relaxed, humane kindness shines through this staging of Shakespeare’s hymn to reconciliation.

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Design Commentary: The Look of the Olympic Games — Paris 2024

July 27, 2024
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Tastefully colorful and aesthetically pleasing, stylish as well as minimalist, modern yet richly symbolic, the Look of the Paris  2024 Olympic Games got many things right and a few wrong.

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