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Filmmaker Interview: Director Eric Green on His Documentary “Life On the V: The Story of V66”

February 26, 2025
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“V66 is a piece of broadcast history that a lot of people don’t know about. I’m proud to be the person to tell its story.”

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Classical Album Review: Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Music of Mahler and Weill

February 26, 2025
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Sir Simon Rattle and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra solve the riddle of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. The conductor and the London Symphony Orchestra also offer a refreshingly impish, characterful traversal of music by Kurt Weill.

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Doc Talk: The Boston Baltic Film Festival — Studies in Brilliance

February 25, 2025
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A hero of his times: celebrating Latvian pioneering documentarian Juris Podnieks.

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Children’s Book Reviews: Celebrating Blackness

February 25, 2025
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Three engaging and spirited books celebrate Black history, culture, and resilience.

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Film Review: “The Monkey” — A Hilariously Sinister Simian

February 24, 2025
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“The Monkey” is a delightful exercise in black humor.

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Film Reviews: At the Berlin Film Festival — Hostage Heartbreak and Arab Acrobatics

February 24, 2025
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Two heartfelt documentaries about the Hamas attack and hostage-taking have premiered at this year’s Berlinale and have been received respectfully, even welcomed.

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Concert Review: Handel + Haydn Society Explores the Romantic Music of Young Handel

February 23, 2025
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This H + H Society performance suggested Handel’s genius for generating joy.

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Theater Review: “The Grove” — Nurturing Ancestral Connections

February 23, 2025
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Revelatory reunions are a standard dramatic setup, which explains why it takes quite a while for “The Grove” to gather some theatrical steam.

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Jazz Album Review: The Timeless Stillness of Satoko Fujii’s “Altitude 1100 Meters”

February 22, 2025
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Music is one of the ways we experience time — Satoko Fujii and the musicians in “GEN” make it disappear.

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Book Reviews: Three Very Different Architecture Books

February 21, 2025
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A trio of reviews of volumes on structures on paper and in the world.

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