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Jazz CD Review: Ethan Helm & Wet Electric — A Very Unusual Recording

November 10, 2018
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In this album, saxophonist Ethan Helm has achieved a very personal balance between highly composed sections and solos rooted in harmony and free playing.

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Theater Review: “The Roommate” — Iowan Yin Yang

November 9, 2018
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The moral of Jen Silverman’s yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banality.

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Book Review: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth

November 9, 2018
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Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.

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Book Feature: “Buy Me, Boston” — A City of Ads

November 8, 2018
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The volume is devoted to print ads and event flyers for local eateries, concert venues, theaters, stores, and community events that were printed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

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Classical Music Review: Roustem Saïtkoulov — A Poet of the Piano

November 8, 2018
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Aside from his seemingly effortless technique, Roustem Saïtkoulov struck me as a poet of the piano. Music seems to be his first language.

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Book Review: “Washington Black” — Grappling with the Meanings of Liberty

November 8, 2018
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.

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Film Review: “Bohemian Rhapsody” — Pure Pleasure

November 7, 2018
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The film captures everything I love about Queen — the outrageousness, the audacity, the bigness of it all.

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Film Review: “Wildlife” — The American Dream, Ablaze

November 6, 2018
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This is a sublime little film — an elegantly cross-stitched portrait of an all-American family fracturing under the weight of broken dreams and false promises.

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Culture Watch: George Soros — Foe of Illiberal Democracy

November 6, 2018
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Now George Soros is mostly known as favored target of the right, more onerous to it, it seems, than even — Lock Her Up! — Hillary Clinton.

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Theater Review: “Peter and the Starcatcher” — A Theatrical Adventure

November 6, 2018
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Hub Theatre Company’s production bursts with energy, staged with a clear-minded sense of movement and a hand-made quality that generates ample charm and whimsy.

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