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Opera Review: “Champion: An Opera in Jazz” — Fought to a Draw

May 22, 2022
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The cast for this Boston Lyric Opera production was first-rate, and composer Terence Blanchard has worked in a wide variety of jazz styles and shifts gears to keep the score swinging throughout.

Book Review: “Woman, Eating” — A Poignant Bite All Its Own

May 21, 2022
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Author Claire Kohda is particularly deft at illustrating how unacknowledged desire will out, undermining our best intentions.

Book Review: “Venus&Document” — Framing the World in Abstractions

May 21, 2022
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This novel of ideas reads like an essay narrated in the first-person by a self-absorbed automaton.

Classical Album Review: The Claremont Trio’s “Queen of Hearts”

May 21, 2022
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What might be the most impressive feature of this disc: everything on it was written for The Claremont Trio since 2008. The album stands as a shining testament to their adeptness as an ensemble as well as their curiosity as musicians.

Film Review: “Men” — Not This Asshole Again

May 21, 2022
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I wish I could state unequivocally that this is a film perfect for this moment in time, and perhaps it is. But not in a good way.

Graphic Novel Review: Pictorially Evocative Narratives About Visually Creative Personalities

May 20, 2022
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Graphic novels are wonderfully suited to chronicle the lives and times of artists, designers, architects, and even creative institutions.

Rock Album Review: Cave In’s “Heavy Pendulum” — Covering the Battlefield from Both Sides

May 20, 2022
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Cave In’s new album is more than a return to form — it is a surging breakthrough.

Film Review: “Montana Story” — Confessions and Revelations in Big Sky Country

May 19, 2022
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This beautifully crafted film relates how the past, particularly one crisis in this family’s past, has colored the siblings’ lives and affected their choices.

Book Review: The Many Faces of the Muse

May 19, 2022
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Muse upends convention by examining twenty-nine real life situations that offer a broader, and more generous, view of what a muse can be.

Television Review: “Love on the Spectrum U.S.” Celebrating Autism — in America

May 18, 2022
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Love on the Spectrum U.S. generates the same joy as its Aussie version: all of the singletons are enormously likable.

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