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In “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac voiced a longing to be “other.” He achieves this transfiguration in “Pic.”
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O Positive and Three Colors will reunite at the Paradise Rock Club this Friday for “With a Little Help from My Friends: a Benefit Concert for a Friend in Need.”
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Newspapers are still our most reliable source of local journalism. Private equity, though, is squeezing the life out of newsrooms as greedy owners cash in.
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The godfather of Boston punk drew a who’s who of local rock history to a new music club on Cape Ann.
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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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Author Mark Cantor has been the go-to guy for jazz film for decades: this authoritative book solidifies his position.
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When the identities of the guilty are finally revealed in this new season of a superb “True Detective,” it is terrifying and glorious.
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These pieces are an intellectual challenge to the listener as well as a sensual pleasure. They should send saxophonists back to the practice room.
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A single listen to The Salt Collective’s album disabused me of my initial skepticism. The recording is as enjoyable and interesting as one would hope for from an effort featuring this gang of eight.
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Book Review: “The Geography of the Imagination” — Longing for Something Lost
Touted as “perhaps the last great American polymath,” Guy Davenport had a singular mind; never was an artist more deserving of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grant.”
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