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Visual Arts Review: The Aesthetics of Practical Elegance

June 15, 2018
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The Fuller Craft Museum’s appealing and thoughtful exhibit showcases a wonderful assemblage of diverse utensils and accessories used in domestic as well as professional kitchens.

Theater Review: “The Nether” — Virtual Reality Fantasyland

June 15, 2018
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Flat Earth Theatre has made a bold and relevant programming choice, taking on a play that examines how technology can both shape our illicit desires and fulfill them with ease.

Film Preview: “The Man Who Laughs” — A Perfect Fit for the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra

June 14, 2018
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This effort is the most ‘Hollywood’ score the BSFO has created yet, a plush musical carpet for The Man Who Laughs’s emotional high and lows.

Book Commentary: “Fahrenheit 451” and Cultural Betrayal

June 14, 2018
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It never occurs to him that, by championing just the great works of Western Civilization and consigning pop culture (notably science-fiction) to the flames, he’s exercising his own pernicious brand of censorship.

Book Commentary: Philip Roth — American Warnings

June 13, 2018
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In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.

Theater Commentary: American Drama — A Diminished Force

June 13, 2018
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We will not get another Angels in America unless we demand it  — and stop accepting bogus substitutes.

Rethinking the Repertoire: Postlude

June 13, 2018
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The moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.

Cultural Commentary: George Soros, The Peppered Moth

June 12, 2018
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Roseanne Barr recently apologized to billionaire Holocaust survivor George Soros for claiming he collaborated with the Nazis.

Concert Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

June 12, 2018
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The show had an undercurrent that brought to the fore all the issues that have put Wynton Marsalis at the center of the culture wars.

Music Commentary: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — Gender Diversity?

June 12, 2018
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By taking the stage with 15 musicians, none of whom is female, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra presents the music as segregated and outdated.

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