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Music Review: Album Releases of February 2019

March 20, 2019
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Springtime hits are on doubt on their way, but let’s not forget about February.

Dance Feature: Boston Dance Alliance Celebrates Tony Williams and Duggan Hill

March 19, 2019
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Although hailing from different backgrounds, Tony Williams and Duggan Hill share important commonalities, most notably their engagement with urban youth.

Jazz Concert Review: Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour — at the Berklee Performance Center

March 19, 2019
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When it comes to jazz, you can be pretty confident that when you put excellent players together — whether they know each other or not — something very good will happen. And it did.

In Memoriam: Asa Brebner

March 19, 2019
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When you play music onstage with someone over the decades you know what they’re thinking with a single glance.

Arts Remembrance: Poet W. S. Merwin — An Appreciation

March 18, 2019
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W.S. Merwin remained politically as well as artistically motivated all his life, often proclaiming the vital importance of activism.

Dance Review: It’s Party Time — Monica Bill Barnes & Company

March 17, 2019
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Monica Bill Barnes, a dancer-choreographer, mime, storyteller and soft satirist, has riffed in the past on the pitfalls of dancing, the vanity of performers, the absurdities of adolescence. Now she’s looking at gender displacements and assertions.

Book Interview: “Bad Environmentalism” — Laughing at Gloom and Doom

March 17, 2019
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Mainstream environmentalism is not just serious and sanctimonious, it also happens to be very white and very heteronormative.

Film Feature: STREAMING DOCS — Spring 2019

March 16, 2019
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What are the best new documentaries available on digital platforms? Read on.

Theater Review: “An Inspector Calls” — Upper Class Downfall

March 16, 2019
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J. B. Priestly’s shallow characterizations keep his vision of moneyed skullduggery mundane rather than monstrous.

Film Review: “Transit” — Europe’s Unburied Past

March 15, 2019
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In Transit, Christian Petzold explores why the ghosts of Europe’s troubled past are stirring once more.

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