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Arts Commentary: Small Business Administration — Cut the Red Tape and Distribute Fed Money to Shuttered Venues!

June 12, 2021
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Boston’s independent theatres and music venues are joining thousands from around the country to call on the Small Business Administration to immediately release Shuttered Venue Operators Grant funds.

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Jazz CD Reviews: Dave Holland and Ben Goldberg — Venturing into New Lands

June 12, 2021
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Bassist Dave Holland’s new album, Another Land, will take you to interesting places. Clarinetist’s Ben Goldberg’s latest, with its guitar/bass/drums core, might do the same.

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Book Review: “Seeing Sideways” — Parenting on the Edge

June 11, 2021
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Those who have followed Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh’s career over the past three decades are the target audience for this memoir. But she is a good enough writer to interest people who may never have listened to her music.

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Book Review: “Refugee: A Memoir” — A Powerful Story of the Plight of Millions

June 11, 2021
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Refugee: A Memoir was not written to entertain but to outrage and activate.

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Film Review: “All Light, Everywhere” — Darkness Visible

June 10, 2021
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Do you believe your eyes? Should you?

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Book Review: “Hard Like Water” — The Revolution Will Be Eroticized

June 10, 2021
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There is no gainsaying that Hard Like Water is, in English, an important book, if only because of its refreshingly sensual vision of the appeal of the Cultural Revolution.

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Arts Interview: The New Head of Global Arts Live Talks Culture and Accessibility

June 10, 2021
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It’s so important in these times to present international and culturally diverse music and dance. It can be a joyful source of healing for our world, and Global Arts Live has been doing this since its inception..

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Rock Album Review: Goose’s “Shenanigans Nite Club” — Likeable and Durable

June 9, 2021
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The group’s exuberance makes it easy to like, an enthusiasm that is compounded by the quality of its live shows and its recordings.

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Film Appreciation: “History is Made at Night” — Transcendent Love on Screen

June 8, 2021
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Director Frank Borzage’s wonderful 1937 History Is Made at Night, newly restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection, defies pigeonholing.

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June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

June 7, 2021
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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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