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Theater Review: “The Haunted Life”– The Lyricism of Jack Kerouac’s Formative Years

April 6, 2019
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It’s Shakespeare in Lowell –the stage piled with ghostly corpses, the heroes all dead, the young bard in mourning.

Film Review: “The Beach Bum” — Purposefully Boneheaded

April 5, 2019
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If you’re the kind of person who coveted every word and wild-man gesture of inebriated Hunter S. Thompson, The Beach Bum could be your movie.

Theater Review: “Cardboard Piano” — Pay Witness

April 2, 2019
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“ignorance about those who have disappeared/ undermines the reality of the world.” — Zbigniew Herbert

Book Review: “Prague Spring” — The Fragility of Freedom

April 2, 2019
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This consistently interesting novel adds an unforgettable dimension to an historical event about which we thought we knew all there was to know.

Film Review: At the Boston Underground Film Festival — “Knife+Heart” and “Mope”

April 2, 2019
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My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.

Opera Review: “Dido and Aeneas” — A Memorable Evening of Purcell

April 1, 2019
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Handel and Haydn Society assembled both a must-hear program and an extraordinary cast of singers.

Film Review: “Diane” — Heroine of a Different Stripe

April 1, 2019
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What elevates these ordinary lives is director Kent Jones’s elegiac distance; the narrative has the feel of a memory piece.

Arts Commentary: The Boston Symphony’s 2019-20 Season Announcement

April 1, 2019
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The fact is, the BSO’s 2019-20 season doesn’t risk enough and lacks a true spirit of adventure.

Film Review: “Hail Satan?” — Fighting Evil

March 30, 2019
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These satanists are far less concerned with organizing decadent ceremonies (though there is a fair bit of that, and it’s thrilling to behold) than they are with exposing corruption and hypocrisy.

Arts Fuse Podcast #12: Howl at the Loon

March 30, 2019
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It happens. Podcast producer Lucas Spiro messed up the audio for this episode —but he managed to put this together so you wouldn’t have to go without our sweet, sweet content.

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