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Poetry Review: “Foxglovewise” — Contending With Presence and Absence

January 31, 2025
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The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.

Musician Interview: Jerry Cantrell Gets Ready To Rock The House Of Blues

January 31, 2025
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Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and I talked about the making of his latest recording, his most recent two solo albums versus his previous two, and his thoughts about his Boston fans.

Visual Arts Review: Joana Choumali — No End of Stuff

January 30, 2025
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This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 30, 2025
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This week’s poem: Alan Smith Soto’s “As on a familiar journey”

Concert Review: The Many Charms of Pianist Bill Charlap

January 28, 2025
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Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.

Author Interview: Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian on His First Novel, “Nobody’s Empire”

January 27, 2025
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With 12 studio albums and myriad EPs to his band’s credit, Stuart Murdoch can now boast, not that he’s the type to do so, of being a published novelist.

Rock Concert Preview: Chuck Prophet’s “Wake the Dead” — Singing of Mortality

January 26, 2025
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Predictably, Chuck Prophet’s brand of rustic rock ’n’ roll gets a bit of a makeover by the members of the Cumbia band ¿Qiensave? But let me reassure you — this is another gem of a Prophet album.

Classical Album Review: Music by Edward MacDowell

January 25, 2025
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Volume 1 in a new series from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and John Wilson whets the appetite for more music by the late-19th-century American composer Edward MacDowell.

Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s “The Look of Love” — Always Something There to Remind Me

January 25, 2025
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There’s something gleefully retro about his hour-plus-long jukebox.

Poetry Review: Joanna Fuhrman’s “Data Mind” — The Algorithm That Ate America

January 25, 2025
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“Data Mind” contains a spiritual blessing — it teaches us how to praise life in a universe that is so broken it is determined to erase our humanity.

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