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Book Review: “In Search of Stonewall” — Illuminating Queer History

April 19, 2019
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The essays here give readers an eyewitness glimpse into mid-century queer life will intrigue (if not shock) younger LGBT+ people.

Jazz CD Review/Commentary: Holly Cole — Sticking to the Standards

April 18, 2019
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I did want to use this CD as a springboard to engage with the question of how using material of a certain age tends to pre-select — and limit — listenership.

Book Review: “The Club” — When One Lived for Good Conversation

April 18, 2019
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The Club is an entertaining and absorbing journey to another century, when the art of communication and the spirit of thoughtful engagement attracted men and women of acute sensibilities.

Classical Music Interview: Cellist Steven Isserlis

April 18, 2019
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The cellist is a member of a tribe of fabulous players/singers who are funny, thoughtful, opinionated, brilliant, and irreverent.

Book Review: “The Ideas That Made America” — Not Made in America

April 17, 2019
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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America provides an exciting, if quicksilver, tour through intellectual history.

Film Review: “The Chaperone” — Smothered in the Spiffy

April 16, 2019
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The Chaperone plays like a sanitized look at female independence and sexual desire for the prudish over-50s crowd.

Arts Remembrance: Homage to David Kleiler

April 16, 2019
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It’s hard to imagine a Boston, even a New England, film-making and film-going scene without David Kleiler here.

Concert Review: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets — The Early Brilliance of Pink Floyd

April 15, 2019
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Drummer Nick Mason and his four non-Floyd bandmates turned Boston’s Orpheum Theater into a psychedelic palace.

Book Review: “Coders” — Brave New World, Coded

April 15, 2019
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Coders had nothing in their intellectual toolbox that would help them understand people.

Visual Arts Review: “Toulouse Lautrec and the Stars of Paris”

April 15, 2019
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This crowd-pleaser of an exhibition, dedicated to an accessible, beloved artist, is a gift to the citizens of Boston and Everett, as well as to the general public.

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