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Children’s Book Reviews: Belonging — Family and Friends

June 11, 2024
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Three new picture books offer help for kids wanting to be perfect, giving feedback, and finding your place in the world.

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Doc Talk: Movies on Loss and Recovery at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 11, 2024
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A trio of films in which certainty and security have been disrupted and people must make the best of what remains.

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Book Review: “Clete” — A Whodunit in Masquerade

June 10, 2024
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James Lee Burke’s “Clete” is Beat poetry, suffused with sadness and longing for all those sunsets now gone.

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Visual Arts Review: “Hana Miletić: Soft Services” — The Power of Folds

June 9, 2024
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In her insightful commentaries and art, Hana Miletić demonstrates how labor and materiality reflect subtexts of power, ranging from the “soft” to the “hard.”

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Theater Review: “Yellow Face” — Playing With Reality

June 8, 2024
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The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.

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Book Review: A Deep Dive into the Complex World of Ingmar Bergman

June 7, 2024
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Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.

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Theater Review: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — A Genially Absurdist Comedy

June 5, 2024
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Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.

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Film Review: “Lumberjack the Monster” — A Petrified Forest

June 5, 2024
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Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously. 

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Theater Review: “Toni Stone” — Winning Season

June 4, 2024
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The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.

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Film Review: “Lost Soulz” — An Engaging Hip-Hop Road Trip

June 4, 2024
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The enthusiastic spirit of “Lost Soulz” is appealing enough to make what feels like two different types of movies sutured together dramatically satisfying.

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