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Concert Preview: Club Passim Celebrates 60 Years with a Birthday Bash

November 10, 2019
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At a time when a number of established music venues in the Boston area have closed, Club Passim continues to thrive, thanks to the loyal grass-roots support it has enjoyed over six decades.

Music Interview: Musician and Writer Robert Forster — Life Before and After The Go-Betweens

November 9, 2019
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Robert Forster was apparently spot-on when he proclaimed that The Go-Betweens “were too good for the bloody charts.”

Arts Commentary: MFA Boston — at 150

November 9, 2019
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There have been times in the MFA’s past when it hasn’t lived up to its educational mission, when it has pandered to the whims of the wealthy — particularly its fat cat benefactors.

Opera Review: A Decolonized “Magic Flute” by the Isango Ensemble

November 8, 2019
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What if you took canonical Western works and reimagined them from an African perspective?

Commentary/Interview: Boston Globe Union Negotiations — Anger and Resistance

November 8, 2019
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Those who value serious journalism (as well as the rights of journalists) should be quite worried about just how lethally Boston Globe management is attempting to undercut the newspaper’s union.

Book Review: “Vernon Subutex 1” — Rock and Roll, Drugs, and Sex Among the Over-The-Hill Gang

November 7, 2019
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Virginie Despentes novel reads like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia mashed with Don Quixote and set in contemporary Paris.

Theater Review: “Admissions” — The Frustrations of the Privileged

November 7, 2019
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Admissions is a successful comedy, but not quite the hot, scathing satire of ‘privileged whiteness’ one might gather from the ads. (Or from some of the local reviews.)

Arts Commentary: “Counterculture in Boston 1968 – 1980s” — High and Heady Days

November 6, 2019
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About the post-Reagan era, Boston Phoenix and Boston After Dark editor, Arnie Reisman, observes: “Everything went to sleep, and while we were sleeping, the Republican Party grew six more heads.”

Music Feature: Childsplay — The Last Waltz

November 5, 2019
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Childsplay, the celebrated flash-band of fiddlers who have come together around the holidays for more than 30 years, is calling it quits.

Arts Fuse Podcast #19: A New Era Begins!

November 5, 2019
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The spanking new Arts Fuse podcast has arrived! Welcome the audio feature’s new master, Deanna Costa.

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