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Music Interview: Jesse Colin Young and his Boston Roots

May 17, 2018
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Jesse Colin Young’s best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.

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CD Review: Swans — “To Be Kind” is Some Kind of a Masterpiece

May 10, 2014
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I love an album that ends with a bang – and The Swans’ To Be Kind ends with four.

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Theater Commentary: “1776” — American Theater Jigs as Democracy Dies?

June 8, 2022
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Maybe I am an alarmist and the rich and powerful know something the rest of us don’t. Perhaps the midterms will not put another nail in the coffin of democracy. Apparently, it will be business as usual for the A.R.T. and other American theaters — until it can’t be.

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Classical Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances and Recordings of 2022

December 15, 2022
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What a great year 2022 was for classical music recordings: the canon, new music, neglected music – all of it was well-represented and from all comers.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “The Exorcist” — The Devil and the Deep State

March 14, 2018
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TV’s The Exorcist reinvents its source material for an occult-savvy (not to mention cinema-savvy) audience.

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Concert Review: Mezzo-Soprano Susan Graham — An Explosion of Love Songs

May 3, 2016
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A vital part of  Susan Graham’s appeal is her winning personality; she makes a recital hall audience happy to be here before she sings a note.

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Book Review: “Rabbit’s Blues” — The Reserved Tenderness of Johnny Hodges

September 2, 2019
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Johnny Hodges was originally a Cambridge/Boston guy, and one of the most interesting sections of Con Chapman biography is his knowledgeable description of the local jazz scene in the 1910’s and ’20s.

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Book Review: “The Wrong End of the Telescope” — A Stunning Achievement

November 8, 2021
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This is a wonderful novel about a pressing humanitarian subject, Syrian refugees and the people who helped, as well as an exploration of identity and loss and triumph.

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Author Interview: Sandi Tan on “Lurkers”

April 28, 2021
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“The suburbs of Los Angeles are so often neglected in literature and film because they are so seemingly impervious to adoration.”

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Theater Review: Boston Theater Company’s “Romeo & Juliet” — A Romance Rife With Political Scandal

October 29, 2013
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BTC’s experiment, while not without its faults, proffers an admirable model of the sort of creative thinking that more companies should emulate when placing Shakespearean drama in a contemporary American context.

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