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Television Review: “I’m a Virgo” — Weird, Funny, Radical, and Poignant

June 28, 2023
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Along with its oversized fantasy, I’m a Virgo comments on Black bodies, capitalism, and socioeconomic barriers.

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Book Review: “Open Throat” — Animal Talk

June 28, 2023
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It’s really a feat — to meld the imaginary with the truth, but Open Throat does it just smashingly.

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Concert Review: Friday and Saturday Night at WasFest — Reanimating the Past

June 27, 2023
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WasFest was a unique spread of mostly Blue Note artists covering classic albums of either their own or their inspirations, and the first two nights offered a range of jazz permutations.

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Concert Review: Judith Hill, Lettuce, and Steel Pulse at WasFest — Paying Homage to the Classics

June 27, 2023
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WasFest is a very welcome addition to Boston’s arts landscape, invaluable because it invites artists to push themselves forward while they acknowledge their still powerful influences.

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Concert Review: Dead & Company’s “Final Tour” at Fenway — A Pertinent Farewell on Sunday

June 27, 2023
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Perhaps more impressive — though too late to evolve further given the group’s impending finale after eight years and more than 200 shows — was the growing roles and comfort level shown by Dead & Company’s younger charter members.

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Concert Review: Dead & Company’s “Final Tour” at Fenway — Into Uncharted Territory on Saturday

June 27, 2023
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There was nothing sloppy about the band’s searching and probing: the members of Dead & Company were perfectly locked into each other, were enjoying the musical exchanges being made in the moment.

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Jazz Album Review: “Multitudes” — A Plethora of Pleasant Acoustic and Electronic Sounds

June 26, 2023
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These pieces integrate the various, varied sounds James Shipp and Nadje Noordhuis produce into something rhythmically as well as melodically exciting and coherent.

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Film Review: “Shin Kamen Rider,” “Shin Ultraman,” and Hideaki Anno’s Philosophical Superheroes

June 26, 2023
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As The Flash crashes at the box office and audiences grow tired of multiverse sagas, creative mastermind Hideaki Anno has delivered two badly needed breaths of fresh air to a genre suffocating under the weight of its own cultural stagnancy.

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Film Festival Review: More Reviews from Provincetown 2023

June 25, 2023
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Five reviews of the kind of films that the Provincetown Film Festival celebrates. Their stories speak to our shared humanity.

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Music Preview: Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade — Turning the Prosaic into the Psychedelic

June 25, 2023
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Bass-wielding provocateur Les Claypool is an expert at warping the seemingly conventional into carnivalesque oddity.

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