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This is a light, diverting show, well-suited as background fodder, but unlikely to garner the same following as “The Office” or “Parks and Recreation.”
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This is another visit to the world of Spinal Tap. I had some good laughs, and that might be enough.
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This week’s poem: Mark Pawlak’s 4 poems from “Special Operation,” Ukraine
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We have a biography that reads like a novel in its range and intensity, a biography that forces us to dig deeper into our own preconceived prejudices and understand another man — a famous writer — in ways that neither he nor we might have ever thought possible.
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Several films in this year’s festival explore the nature of dreams and the people who are driven by them.
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The movie version of “The Long Walk” doesn’t follow Stephen King’s narrative exactly, but it remains true to the spirit of the novel. Which means it is just as harrowing an experience.
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The Pogues leaned on their instrumental breadth when they took the Suffolk Downs stage as an 11-piece ensemble augmented at times by guest singers and a three-piece horn section.
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Ideally, if the verse and the music work seamlessly together, they can create a third kind of art that is neither fish nor fowl. It can stand alone on its own merits.
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By Scott McLennan The Outlaw Music Festival’s overall pacing of performers from newest to most veteran offered an interesting overview of how country, folk, and rock have blended over the decades. Over the course of its 10-year existence, the Outlaw Music Festival has supplied one of the few satisfactory working definitions for the musical label…
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Theater Preview: Beckett, Williams, Beau Jest, and “Last Call” for Provincetown’s Tennessee Williams Festival
When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year’s theme was Last Call — a look at the work of Williams in conversation with the work of Samuel Beckett — we knew we wanted to be a part of it.
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