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Movie Review: “Dope” — A Liberating Coming-of-Age Film

June 19, 2015
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The impish comedy and refreshingly realistic perspective of Dope questions easy answers to pressing racial problems.

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Concert Review: Boston Early Music Festival — Musical Miracle Workers

June 18, 2015
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After experiencing, in seven days, Monteverdi’s three extant operas and his Vespers of 1610, I am in awe of BEMF and everyone associated with it.

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Visual Arts Review: The Revelations of Walking — the Photography of Kageyama Kōyō

June 18, 2015
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The best of Kageyama Kōyō’s photography contains a nuanced dramatic power that is both aesthetic and political.

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Fuse Theater Review: An Uneven “Red” from the Peterborough Players

June 18, 2015
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There is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko’s career.

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Dance Review: American Ballet Theatre’s Eye-Popper of a “Sleeping Beauty”

June 17, 2015
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Few companies can do pageantry quite like ABT, buoyed by its vast resources as well as on this occasion the company’s desire to celebrate its 75th anniversary with panache.

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Book Review: “Twelve-Cent Archie” — A Highly Entertaining Look at the Teens of Riverdale

June 17, 2015
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What makes Twelve-Cent Archie such a congenial read is that Bart Beaty is a free thinker about comic books.

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Visual Arts: M.I.T.’s Memorial to Officer Sean Collier — Mundane Rather than Marvelous

June 17, 2015
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M.I.T.’s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement — it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.

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Theater Review: Gloucester Stage Company’s “Sweet and Sad” — Subtle to a Fault

June 16, 2015
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Richard Nelson does not compel us to pay attention to his characters’ psychological disclosures, and his reluctance to underline is refreshing.

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Visual Arts Review: Photographer Rose Marasco — The Search for Juxtapositions

June 16, 2015
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Rose Marasco’s strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.

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Poetry Review: Restoring the “Old Questions” — Klaus Merz’s “Out of the Dust”

June 16, 2015
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Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.

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