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Book Review: Finding Well-Paid Work After Graduation — The Luck of the Draw

May 20, 2024
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Readers interested in understanding how typical Americans transition from college to work should savor this provocative book.

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Coming Attractions: May 19 through June 3 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 19, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Concert Review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Together Again

May 19, 2024
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Over the course of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s two-hour show the tension between magnificent creativity and near collapse were palpable.

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Design Review: A Singular Art Nouveau Shopfront in Harvard Square

May 18, 2024
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Made over 100 years before the current marketing phrase went abuzz, 1304 Massachusetts Avenue is a charming example of a true immersive retail experience.

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Classical Album Reviews: LSO Plays Britten Orchestral Works and “All These Lighted Things” from Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

May 17, 2024
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Sir Simon Rattle revisits the music of Benjamin Britten and Elim Chan once again draws on her remarkable ear for detail.

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Jazz Album Review: Dizzy Gillespie’s “Soul & Salvation” — The Spirit Is Cheesy But Willing

May 17, 2024
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“Soul & Salvation” is a short album, and you’ll be sorry when it’s over. It’s hardly an essential album in Dizzy Gillespie’s long discography, but you won’t regret giving it a listen.

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Doc Talk: Four Documentaries Defy Doomsday at the Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

May 16, 2024
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What have you done to prevent the end of the world? A quartet of documentaries in this year’s Global World Film Festival offer different answers to this nagging question.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

May 16, 2024
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This week’s poem: Fanny Howe’s “A New Idea”

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Classical Album Reviews: James Ehnes plays Bernstein and Williams and ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Does “City Noir”

May 16, 2024
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The performance of John Adams’s “City Noir” is swift and characterful, though sometimes pushed perhaps a bit too hard for its own good. The rendition of Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade” is clear but a bit too safe.

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Blues Album Review: Gary Clark Jr.’s “JPEG RAW” — Branching Out in New Directions

May 15, 2024
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Gary Clark Jr.’s “JPEG RAW” could be seen as an orchard whose far-reaching sonic branches — nurtured by the rich, fertile, and ancient soil of the blues — stretch into jazz, hip hop, and funk.

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