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Book Review: “On the Isle of Antioch” — It is Believable? Does it Matter?

February 5, 2024
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If this is a fable, is there a moral?

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Book Review: “Shout It Out Loud” — KISS and Sell

December 22, 2015
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Shout It Out Loud begins as a forensic examination of KISS’s Destroyer album, but it ends up as much more.

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Book Review: “Run Towards the Danger” — Grappling With Memories of Trauma

January 18, 2023
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Sarah Polley’s essay on sexual assault by itself is worth the price of the book, essential reading for anyone interested in the physical and psychological after-effects of violence against women.

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Movie Review: “Elysium” Lost?

August 14, 2013
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My point is that whatever distinguished District 9 and made it so special is entirely absent from director Neill Blomkamp’s blockbuster, Elysium.

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Theater Review: Jane Austen Tweets In Chester, MA

July 11, 2011
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The Chester Theatre Company’s production, directed by Ron Bashford, runs over two hours with nary a dull moment and the actors seem to be having as wonderful a time as the audience.

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Anonymous Sources: Pollock Matter a Use Too Fair?

September 19, 2007
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Could a longstanding debate over copyright law add yet another dimension to the long-running Pollock Matter Affair? There are signs it might, though the media haven’t yet understood just how broad the implications might be.

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Short Fuse Visual Arts News: What is Good Art? Me and Barry McGee

May 7, 2013
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I don’t understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: Dance Highlights, Sept 12 through 15

September 10, 2013
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Fuse Dance Critic Debra Cash on what’s coming up in dance this week.

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For the Love of Arts Criticism II: Arts Magazines and Bloggers Speak Out

April 6, 2018
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We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.

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Book Review: “Melting Point” — Promises, Promises

June 1, 2025
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After discarding a conventional draft — lots of explanatory narration from the author as a book’s omniscient narrator — Rachel Cockerell decided instead to create the book entirely as a collage of fragments from the historical record.

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