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Theater Review: “Deep Blue Sound” — The Everyday Tragedy of Inaction

September 8, 2025
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It’s likely, the playwright suggests, that Americans are incapable of getting out of their own way long enough to cooperate in ways that do anything about the challenges that we face as a society and a country, let alone the world.

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Classical Album Review: The Complete Dunbar/Moore Sessions

September 8, 2025
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Baritone Will Liverman is emerging as a musician with a capital “M,” one whose thoroughgoing approach to the craft is singularly illuminating, inviting, and affecting.

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Concert Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band and Gov’t Mule join up for “The Great Inevitable”

September 8, 2025
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The long-anticipated pairing of Gov’t Mule and the Tedeschi Trucks Band turned out to be one of those rare moments when the live performance outshined even the promise on paper.

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Arts Remembrance: Robert Scanlan — An Animating Force in Boston-area Theatre for Nearly Five Decades

September 7, 2025
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“An inspiring intelligence combined with a high level of artistry is a rarity in the arts. With the loss of Bob Scanlan, the worlds of both theatre and poetry have cause to mourn.”

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Book Commentary: Three Weeks Before the Mast — Reading “Moby Dick”

September 7, 2025
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A slow thinker, I read 600 pages into “Moby Dick” before putting my finger on the book’s key tension. It’s between Ishmael’s intense and ecological whale love and the central story which chronicles the wanton murdering of whales, man’s unconcern with destroying the natural world.

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Book Review: “Book of I” — A Gem of a Novel

September 7, 2025
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This novel is as fresh and charming as any contemporary work this critic has read in ages.

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Classical Album Review: Anna Clyne’s “Abstractions”

September 6, 2025
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That composer Anna Clyne is a gifted miniaturist is evident in “Abstractions”, a set of five movements offering musical commentary on the works of five contemporary visual artists.

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Book Review: “Queer Lens” – Let the Record Show

September 5, 2025
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By Trevor Fairbrother The Queer Lens project made me think about queer culture and camera culture as distinct phenomena that began in the Victorian era: each was a manifestation of modernity. The latest exhibition that Paul Martineau has curated at the J. Paul Getty Museum is titled Queer Lens: A History of Photography and features…

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Film Review: “Boys Go to Jupiter” — The Florida Project

September 4, 2025
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It’s up to us to champion films like “Boys Go to Jupiter,” which push the medium into exciting new territory when AI slop is literally banging at the door.

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Musician Interview: Pianist Marcus Roberts — How AI can Support Artists

September 4, 2025
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Pianist Marcus Roberts is aware of the artistic community’s criticism of AI, but maintains an attitude of optimism tempered by realism.

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