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Jazz Album Review: Marco Pignataro’s Superb “Chant For Our Planet”

October 19, 2022
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Chant For Our Planet is a great recording full of exciting ensemble playing, with lots of tasty solos and, if you want to listen in that way, an important theme that expresses deep concern for the state of our environment.

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Television Review: “Rosaline” — Burlesquing the Bard’s “Star-Cross’d Lovers”

October 19, 2022
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Every few years a smart teen rom-com comes along that deftly puts a modern, and pleasingly iconoclastic, spin on a classic piece of literature.

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Film Review: “In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson at 50” — Dreams and Nightmares

October 18, 2022
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Surprisingly, for a band whose hypnotic music throughout the documentary provides a continuum with menacing and meditative extremes that mesh with near-mathematical discipline, it’s the human elements that leave the greatest impressions..

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Jazz Album Review: Kirsten Lambert, “From A Window To A Screen” — Tomorrow’s Standards Today

October 18, 2022
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Sultry, smart, and sweet, From a Window To A Screen will be a perfect accompaniment to romantic winter nights.

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Film Review: London Film Festival, Dispatch #1 — “1976” and “A Room of My Own”

October 18, 2022
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Reviews of two standout films from the 66th London Film Festival — one of the most dynamic festival programs in recent memory.

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Visual Arts Review: Ambiguity in Wonderland — Rachel Portesi’s “Standing Still” at the Griffin Museum

October 16, 2022
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More than skin deep, and not as sentimental as it might first appear, Rachel Portesi’s adoption of Victorian techniques is appropriate to the themes of loss and change she sets out to explore.

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At the New York Film Festival: “All That Breathes” — Birds Saved, to Return to a Toxic Sky

October 16, 2022
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It is tempting to call All That Breathes a film of great humanity, but the documentary’s empathy extends far beyond humans.

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WATCH CLOSELY: October on the Criterion Channel — Buckets of Blood and Beauty

October 15, 2022
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You want horror? This month Criterion Channel serves up plenty of cinematic chills, vintage and otherwise.

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Visual Arts Review: The Iconic Gropius House — An Exquisite Bauhaus Masterwork

October 14, 2022
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Homage to a Modernist architectural gem located in the woods of Lincoln, MA

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Doc Talk: Tales of Exile and Return, Loss and Recovery in the Boston Palestine Film Festival

October 13, 2022
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A gathering of documentaries (not to mention features and shorts) whose exploration of the perseverance of longing and identity in the wake of a historical tragedy demand to be seen.

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