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TV Review: “Barry” — An Inevitable Season Four

May 30, 2023
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What made Barry such a hit was that it was deliciously funny; the laughs were a balm for the uneasiness viewers felt as the body count rose from episode to episode.

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Concert Review: Plenty of Boston at L.A. Festivals

May 29, 2023
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So why am I going to write about the Nuggets concert for a New England outlet? Because, totally surprising to me, there was a lot of Boston in the show.

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Classical Album Review: Karina Canellakis conducts Bartók — Pretty Much as Good as They Come

May 29, 2023
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This is an album of top-notch orchestral playing. Yet the real star is Karina Canellakis.

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Book Review: “Beethoven in the Bunker” — A Welcome, But Scattered, Point of Departure

May 28, 2023
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In place of coherent, in-depth analysis, the author has provided us with a series of short profiles on various individuals, some of them familiar, others less so. The tack presents problems that can’t be overcome.

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Rock Album Review: The Latin Dead’s “Eyes of the World” — Revolutionary Pop/Rock/Latin Fusion

May 28, 2023
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Until this album, I had no idea that the Grateful Dead and salsa could blend together with such force and fun.

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Film Review: “The Eight Mountains” — Four Decades of Male Bonding

May 28, 2023
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The Eight Mountains offers peak entertainment.

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Classical Album Review: Martin Fröst’s “Ecstasy and Abyss” — A Mixed Bag of Mozart

May 27, 2023
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The best items in this all-Mozart album are the concertos.

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Concert Review: The Duke Robillard Band Rocks Aplenty at Jimmy’s

May 27, 2023
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The music of the Duke Robillard Band may go back a long way, but there was nothing retro about the bittersweet, funky, lowdown sounds that rocked Jimmy’s.

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Design Commentary: Department of Play — Creating a New Urban Planning Paradigm

May 27, 2023
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Participatory, small-scale planning is a powerful step forward because it doesn’t pay lip service to cliches about “listening to the community.”

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Classical Album Review: Violinist Maria Ioudenitch’s “Songbird” Soars

May 26, 2023
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Violinist Maria Ioudenitch seems to know how to get directly at the expressive core of this fare without devolving into showboating or histrionics.

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