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Arts Remembrance: Be the Rock Star — A Tribute to Jules Siegel

January 26, 2013
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Legendary music journalist Jules Siegel died of a heart attack on November 17, 2012 at the age of 77. There was no “New York Times” obituary, no mention in “Rolling Stone.” But to me, he was a rock star.

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Theater Review: Another View of “Other Desert Cities”

January 25, 2013
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Life can be found under any stone, in any crack in the sidewalk. But I admit I yearn for being taken on a grander voyage, higher, deeper than any sitcom can take me.

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Classical CD Review: Two New Releases from BMOP/sound — An Indispensable Label for American Composers

January 24, 2013
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Musical quibbles aside, the performances on both albums from Boston Modern Music Project’s in-house label, BMOP/sound, are top-notch.

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Classical CD Review: “Hywel Davies” — Repetitions of the Undeveloped

January 24, 2013
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To describe the contents of the CD “Hywel Davies” as trivial is to be generous.

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Film Review: Come Home to “Mama”

January 23, 2013
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One might call “Mama,” one of the classiest horror films in years, a case of shock and awww …

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Book Review: César Aira’s Miraculous Conception

January 23, 2013
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In an age where technology has made the improbable perfectly plausible, squeezed out spontaneity, and raised skepticism about the nature of reality, how can we still believe in miracles? This is the crux of the novel, made delightfully vivid and comic by César Aira’s prose.

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Visual Arts Review: “City Of Work” — A Satirically Dystopic Vision of The Daily Grind

January 21, 2013
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Artist Michael Lewy’s comprehensive, clever and surprisingly humorous take on an imaginary experimental settlement explores the ramifications of having human potential promptly assessed and harnessed for work, and work alone.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Other Desert Cities” — Bridging the Great Cultural Divide?

January 19, 2013
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For all of its earnest interest in healing some of the great divides in American life, Other Desert Cities ends up slighting the desert spaces that lie between us.

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Film review: “Broken City,” Busted Noir

January 18, 2013
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Broken City covers familiar territory, but this time it’s Marky-Mark to the rescue and he brings a gruff and troubled groundedness to the role of a man on a mission to find out The Truth in a corrupt world.

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Theater Feature: The Bread & Puppet Theater Turns 50

January 16, 2013
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For me, the fact that Bread and Puppet Theater has survived for 50 years is very hopeful, essentially because company members have never wavered from their principles. Imagine that. You can be radically principled and survive!

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