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Book Review: “Reflectory: The Life and Music of Pepper Adams” — An Enigmatic Master

December 21, 2022
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It’s hard to imagine anyone producing a more complete and authoritative biography of baritone sax player Pepper Adams.

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Arts Feature: The Best in Popular Music 2022

December 21, 2022
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Our music critics pick some of the standout albums and performances of 2022.

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Theater Review: “Midwinter Revels” — Unity, “Behold How Good”

December 20, 2022
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At its core, the Revels is about bringing together actors and audience, but there are several stagecraft successes to note this time around

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Book Review: “Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life” — Less Intriguing But Even More Mysterious

December 19, 2022
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As befits an official biography, Silver and Greenwald approach their subject with decorum and respect: they neither hide nor emphasize potentially controversial elements, carefully outlining the sources of money in Isabella’s family and the old Boston Brahmin fortune of her devoted husband.

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Music Feature: The Best Jazz Albums of 2022

December 19, 2022
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The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums.

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Book Review: “The Value of a Whale” — Green Capitalism and the Limits of Market-Based Solutions

December 18, 2022
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In this valuable book, Adrienne Buller assesses the efficacy of leading market-based efforts to address climate change and nature loss and contends that they have largely failed.

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Visual Arts Feature: “Life of Pi” — Imagination by Design at The A.R.T.

December 18, 2022
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The most mesmerizing characters in this stunningly visual production are brilliant life-size puppets.

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Coming Attractions: December 18 through January 3 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 18, 2022
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse 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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Film Review: “White Noise” — Toxic Prophecy

December 18, 2022
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By drawing on the insight and humor in Don DeLillo’s novel, Noah Baumbach manages to find (at least for me) affirmation and comfort in this portrait of the randomness of contemporary existence.

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Theater Review: “Life of Pi” — An Enchantingly Theatrical Ocean Voyage

December 17, 2022
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This stunning, brand new production of UK’s Life of Pi is stopping in Cambridge for a month or so before sailing down to Broadway.

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