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Jazz Album Reviews: A Trio of Superior Recordings Featuring Master Guitarists

August 22, 2024
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Three guitarists — Bill Banfield, Ray Obiedo, and Lee Ritenour — release superb albums.

Visual Art Review: Contemporary Ferns and Mounds at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

August 21, 2024
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This summer’s installation of new sculptures is evidence that creative interventions in nature can be harmonious.

Concert Review: Boston Landmarks Orchestra — Dancing Freely at the Hatch Shell

August 21, 2024
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Performing with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, dynamic Canadian violinist Adrian Anantawan made music by Piazzolla and Florence Price burn blue hot.

Theater Review: Sutton Foster Shines Bright in Broadway Revival of “Once Upon a Mattress”

August 20, 2024
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This “Mattress” is all about Sutton Foster. And that’s a good thing.

Book Review: “Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World” — Breezy and Bumptious

August 20, 2024
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Notwithstanding the book’s research foundation, albeit colorfully amplified with personal and historical anecdotes, as a civilizational story Inheritance is a lightweight effort.

Classical Album Review: Baroque Music — But Guitar, No Harpsichord — Beautiful!

August 19, 2024
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In Handel’s day, excerpts from his operas were often played at home, without singers. They sound great on this new recording by the group humorously (and quite inaccurately) called False Consonance.

Film Review: “Alien: Romulus” — A Rosary of Pavlovian Stimuli

August 18, 2024
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Disney has bought Fox, so the “Alien” franchise is now incapable of having an impact close to what it initially had, when it redefined what science fiction/horror films could be.

Book Review: “The Horse” — Portrait of a Self-Abusive Artist

August 18, 2024
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“The Horse” probes the psyche of a man who believes, despite all that has happened to him, in the possibility of renewal.

Children’s Book Reviews: A Quartet on Family Love

August 18, 2024
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From a rollicking, multicultural family dinner, to a walk through the zoo, to precious together time between a mother-and-son, to a new dress for a toy bunny, these books introduce readers to the many ways families spread love.

Film Review: Kids Know the Darnedest Things in “Good One”

August 17, 2024
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A buffer between two bruised and only fitfully reflective egos, Sam finds herself in an awkward position, one which becomes increasingly untenable as lines of trust are crossed and power dynamics exploited.

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