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Book Review: “My Stupid Intentions” — The Heartbreaking Bildungsroman of a Beech Marten

June 13, 2023
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The fox knows many things in My Stupid Intentions. The beech marten just one.

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Concert Review: Leslie Odom Jr. at the Groton Hill Music Center — The Room Where It Happened

June 12, 2023
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Given the overwhelmingly loud and appreciative response from the sold-out crowd, which hung on every note of Leslie Odom, Jr.’s diverse and stirring set list, he’s unlikely to forget Groton anytime soon.

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Theater Review: “Private Lives” — Time for Retirement?

June 12, 2023
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Even when it is well-performed, as it is here, it is unclear whether Noël Coward’s well-constructed comic concoction deserves another theatrical lease on life.

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Concert Review: Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye — A Very Modern Organ Trio

June 12, 2023
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At New Hampshire’s just-christened Nashua Center for the Arts, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Pat Metheny shared a wily sidelong glance at his own broad compositional and improvisational history.

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Theater Review: A Sweet-Tempered “As You Like it”

June 11, 2023
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In the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s likable staging of As You Like It, love looks pretty durable.

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Jazz Albums Review: Craft Recordings Reissues — Coltrane, Monk, Davis, Previn, and Vinnegar

June 11, 2023
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As usual with Craft Recordings reissues, these lps are impeccably produced: the silence of the recording before the music starts is almost startling, but it’s the clear sound of what follows that is most impressive.

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Theater Review: “Evita” — Encouraging Signs

June 10, 2023
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This American Repertory Theatre co-production gets so many of “Evita”‘s elements right — now all it needs is the musical’s combative soul.

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Television Review: “Never Have I Ever” — A Groundbreaking TV Comedy

June 9, 2023
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We have the satisfying conclusion to a series that proved episodic dramas can — in fact, should — grow in depth past their first season.

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Book Review: “Act Naturally: The Beatles on Film” — Everything You Would Want to Know About the Fab Four and Their Five Movies

June 9, 2023
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The problem is that the factoids and bits of trivia supplied by Act Naturally rarely tie back to any larger narrative, or serve any discernible purpose other than to be cataloged.

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Music Interview: Talking with Samantha Fish about the “Death Wish Blues”

June 9, 2023
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Samantha Fish is coming to the Cabot Theater on June 16. Her latest disc, produced by Jon Spencer, currently sits atop “Billboard”’s Blues Albums chart.

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