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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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Mick Herron’s prose, it must be said, remains top-notch, chock full of puns and timely references, as well as colorful dialogue. But the premise of this successful series of espionage thrillers is beginning to show some wear.
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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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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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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.
Read MoreArts Remembrance: Robert Scanlan — An Animating Force in Boston-area Theatre for Nearly Five Decades
“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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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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This novel is as fresh and charming as any contemporary work this critic has read in ages.
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Arts Commentary: AI Implementation and the Arts — Welcome to Dystopia
There will be no winners in this battle for control, whatever the judicial outcomes. Once the AI bubble bursts, many people will be hurt.
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