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For Benjamin Zander and his musicians – as for all of us – it was a strange, even desperate, several months.
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The fourth and final season of On My Block maintains its precarious equilibrium between laughter and menace, but it is teetering.
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At 75, Dave Liebman pays tribute to John Coltrane by still doing what Coltrane would surely have wanted him to do: to look within and find truths that are a wellspring of rewarding and challenging music for the rest of us.
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Comes Love was Sheila Jordan’s first full recording session as a leader, and it automatically becomes a collector’s item for those who love the legendary jazz singer’s work.
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The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Series creator Molly Smith Metzler clearly cares about the subject matter and is determined to tell a nuanced story about the hellish plight of the victims of domestic abuse.
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Let’s see if Prayers for the Stolen is selected as Mexico’s Academy Award nominee. It’s a long shot, given that this is a film that tells so much of the truth.
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A hatred of self and others sits, relatively neglected, at the center of Adam Rapp’s script.
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Arts Remembrance: Arnie Reisman — The Party of the First Part
In a way, Arnie was, to Boston, what George S. Kaufman was to the Algonquin Round Table, except the “vicious circle” lasted only ten years while Arnie enlivened his circle of friends for more than sixty.
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