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Book Review: “Beneath the Mountain” — Revealing the Links Between Enslavement and Incarceration

August 12, 2024
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This collection of essays, excerpts, letters, and a few poems is a powerful and necessary tool for educating anyone willing to learn about — and confront — the injustice and hypocrisy of our country’s monstrous system of incarceration.

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Book Review: Neoliberal Soup for the Fledgling Capitalist Soul — “The Algebra of Wealth”

August 12, 2024
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Serious individuals of all stripes seeking candid yet pragmatic life, career, and financial guidance will find much to savor in this book.

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Book Review: Doing the “Art Monster” Mash

August 11, 2024
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The art monster is messy, ambitious, and narcissistic but couldn’t care less about what you think. Are you frightened?

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Concert Review: Boston Landmarks Orchestra — Weighty Fun

August 10, 2024
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Conductor Christopher Wilkins and Boston Landmarks Orchestra routinely present serious, challenging programs: but there is always room left for some partying.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Jazz Composers’ Omnibus 2024

August 10, 2024
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Each of these four projects requires deep attention from a listener. Only two of them repay that attention with the musical rewards that bring a listener (this listener, at least) back for rehearings.

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Jazz Concert Review: Multi-Instrumentalist Andrew Lamb — Old-School Free Jazz, Done Right

August 10, 2024
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Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Lamb, with his spiritual imperative, is clearly seeking, and achieving, incantatory power.

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Book Review: “Nat Turner, Black Prophet” — An Evangelical Rebellion

August 10, 2024
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Authors Anthony E. Kaye  and Gregory P. Downs claim that Nat Turner would have seen himself as a Christian prophet.

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Visual Arts Review: Salvador Dalí Touches Down on Huntington Avenue — Quirky and Proud of It

August 9, 2024
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For decades the MFA gave Dalí the cold shoulder, so it’s great that this maiden voyage is non-puritanical and open to the artist’s less than wholesome instincts to provoke.

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Author Interview: In Praise of an American Bard, “Bob Dylan in Performance — Song, Stage, and Screen”

August 8, 2024
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“This book let me find out for myself why I’ve been obsessed with Dylan since my teens, and I presented what I learned in a way that I hoped others would at least see that I’m not crazy.”

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Musician Interview: After “Duality” — Lindsey Stirling Will Show a Different Side at MGM Music Hall

August 8, 2024
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Audiences will hear the new musical direction violinist Lindsey Stirling and her band have taken when they perform at Fenway’s MGM Music Hall.

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