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Book Review: “We Are All Good People Here” — From All Sides

August 3, 2019
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We Are All Good People Here is an enormously insightful examination of how dangerous suggestible people can be, to those around them and to themselves.

Book Review: “Lady in the Lake” — The Complex Tapestry of Urban Decay

August 2, 2019
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This fine novel is portrait of Baltimore as a city at war with itself.

Folk Music Review: Dueto Dos Rosas, Five Songs

August 2, 2019
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Dueto Dos Rosas’s tunes can be classified as rancheras or corridos, but their style has a very particular historical resonance.

Rock Concert Review: The Struts — A New Charismatic Force

August 1, 2019
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Luke Spiller of the Struts: probably rock’s most commanding frontman since Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Steven Tyler in their prime.

Arts Commentary: Some Thoughts on the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s 2019 Brazilian Tour

August 1, 2019
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Suffice it to say, the tour was an extraordinary experience, musically and culturally, and, for me, a conspicuously potent introduction to a new continent.

Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious

August 1, 2019
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This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.

Theater Review: CSC’s “Cymbeline” — The Bard’s Greatest Hits?

July 31, 2019
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The CSC production maintains a sense of romantic adventure throughout, which makes it easier to accept some of the staging’s creative excesses — as well as the loop de loops of the Bard’s plotting.

Music Review: Newport Folk Festival 2019 — A Historic Occasion

July 30, 2019
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When the 80-year-old Judy Collins, who sang at Newport in the 1960s, declares the current weekend to be “historic,” you had to believe her.

Visual Arts Review: MFA’s Arts of Islamic Cultures Gallery — Window into an Endangered World

July 30, 2019
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The MFA’s Arts of Islamic Cultures gallery offers an impressive visual representation of a region’s cultures, geographies, and histories.

Theater Review: “On the Exhale” — Wild, Angry, and Powerful

July 29, 2019
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On the Exhale is one of the most powerful and uncompromising one-person shows I’ve ever seen.

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