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Fuse Theater Review: “Knock! The Daniil Kharms Project” — Absurdity Knocked About

October 7, 2014
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Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to–the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.

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Concert Reviews: Chamber Music Roundup — Radius Ensemble and Chameleon Arts Ensemble

May 30, 2024
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Two Boston-area chamber music ensembles recently ended their seasons. Each embraced the present in its own distinctive way.

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Rap Album Review: Prof’s “Horse” — Carrying Minneapolis on Your Back Ain’t Easy

April 21, 2023
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Horse represents a victory lap (pun intended), a confident follow-up to the artist’s astonishing success with his self-release of Powderhorn Suites.

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TV Review: “The Defenders” — Netflix’s Comic Book Big Bang?

September 8, 2017
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Netflix has spent the past two and a half years slowly setting the stage for the grittiest superhero universe yet.

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Visual Arts Review: “Huma Bhabha — They Live” and “The Beyond — Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art”

April 10, 2019
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Pakistani-born artist Huma Bhabha is still very much at the edge of edgy; Georgia O’Keeffe much less so.

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Film Interview: “A Quiet Passion” — Terence Davies Pays Homage to Emily Dickinson

April 13, 2017
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Director Terence Davies read four biographies of Emily Dickinson; the details of her life he remembered became the basis for his screenplay.

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Music Interview: Tim Jackson — on Robin Lane, The Band That Time Forgot, Johnny D’s, and the End of an Era

January 12, 2016
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“I hope that these new venues still want to book the occasional seasoned musician, because audiences of all ages still love rock and roll.”

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Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Loitering” — Slam-Bang Ghost Stories

December 1, 2014
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Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.

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Theater Review: “Much Ado About” Sexting and Social Media

October 25, 2014
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This staging of Much Ado About Nothing would make an excellent ice-breaker for a discussion between adolescents and adults about sexting

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Theater Review: Seeing the “Invisible Man”

January 13, 2013
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An adaptor has to make choices, and this theatrical version of “Invisible Man” focuses on the novel’s most straightforward narrative strand.

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