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Film Review: “The Survivor” – (Living in the Past, Looking to the Future)

April 28, 2022
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Ben Foster shines in Barry Levinson’s grim tale of love, loss, and hope.

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Book Review: The Lost Southern Chefs — A History of the Commercialization of Southern Hospitality

April 28, 2022
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For all of the book’s fascinating revelations, The Lost Southern Chefs leaves the reader with a number of unanswered questions.

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Jazz Album Review: Catherine Russell’s “Send for Me” — A Deep Dig into the Jazz of the ’30s and ’40s

April 28, 2022
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If you’re a fan of the Great American Songbook, but have grown weary of the warhorses, Send For Me is a treat.

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Film Review: “The Wobblies” — A Moving Story of a Largely Forgotten American Class Conflict

April 28, 2022
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After premiering at the New York Film Festival in 1979, this powerful documentary about one of the most dramatic periods in American labor history has been newly restored.

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Classical Album Review: “When There Are No Words…” — Do Music and Politics Mix?

April 28, 2022
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When There Are No Words presents six pieces written between 1936 and 1980 by composers responding (at least seemingly) to contemporaneous political events and situations.

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Film Review: “Resurrection” at the Independent Film Festival Boston

April 27, 2022
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What lifts Resurrection above the standard victim-becomes-avenger routine is a preposterous — in a wonderfully sick way — claim that gives the movie a welcome touch of giallo unpredictability.

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Poetry Review: “Continuous Creation” — A Farewell from a Grand Old Man of Australian Verse

April 27, 2022
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Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.

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Classical Album Review: “Opalescent” from the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

April 27, 2022
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Opalescent’s overriding aspect is celebratory – but from a variety of angles.

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Children’s Book Reviews: A Trio of Stories That Explore the Meaning of Love

April 27, 2022
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Three looks at love that may help generate some interesting conversations about what love means in the lives of children.

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Theater Review: “Our Daughters, Like Pillars” — Bearing the Weight

April 26, 2022
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Kirsten Greenidge’s epic comic drama is a spot-on examination of the challenges changing times pose to evolving families.

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