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Musician’s Interview: Barry Burns of Mogwai Talks About Stoking “The Bad Fire”

April 8, 2025
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Mogwai’s explosive sound has inspired numerous bands around the world, including in the Boston area. 

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Short Fuse Podcast #71: Reading the City with Tyler Wetherall

April 8, 2025
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In this conversation, Elizabeth Howard engages with Tyler Wetherall, focusing on how she connects with the literary community in New York City through her newsletter, “Reading the City.”

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Book Review: “The Prison Industry” — Proving That a Humane Prison Is a Perverse Fallacy

April 8, 2025
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Some of “The Prison Industry”‘s most devastating material appears in the section of the book exposing the lack of acceptable health care in jails and prisons.

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Concert Review: Beth Gibbons — Still an Aching, Spectral Voice

April 7, 2025
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Stripped of trip-hop trappings, Beth Gibbons’s fragile voice commanded through a ghostly filter effect as she sang with edgy emotion, peaking in the tagline, “How can it feel this wrong?”

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Visual Arts Review: “Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver” — Surrealist Sorcery

April 7, 2025
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Reluctant to explain the meaning of her art, Leonora Carrington chose to let the magic and mystery of her inner life reveal itself through the imaginary animal/human creatures and fantastic landscapes of her paintings.

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Festival Review: Ten Highlights from Big Ears 2025

April 6, 2025
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Despite — or maybe because of — all the global turmoil, an awful lot of compelling music was heard at Big Ears.

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Theater Review: “Carousel” — One More Spin of the Wheel

April 6, 2025
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Despite all the Boston Lyric Opera pageantry and talent, “Carousel”‘s trip to the 21st century turns out to be bumpy.

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Children’s Book Reviews: The Freedom to Read

April 5, 2025
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 Kudos to Delacorte Press for publishing not one but two middle-grade books about the dangers of book banning.

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Theater Review: “Her Portmanteau” — Unpacking Emotional Baggage

April 4, 2025
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This is the most slickly engaging of Mfoniso Udofia’s scripts so far, its domestic melodrama enlivened by welcome humor, detailed characterizations, and moments of pathos.

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Film Review: Trans Valuation at Wicked Queer 41

April 4, 2025
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Director Victoria Verseau’s Trans Memoria is an oneiric, brutally frank meditation on the pains and rewards of transgender surgery.

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