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Theater Review: Penny Arcade — Provincetown, Puritans, and the Pandemic

September 29, 2020
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I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”

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Music Preview: Electric Earth Concerts Powers Into its 9th Season

March 4, 2020
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This writer heartily recommends a trip up north to hear a fascinating range of concerts featuring artists, ensembles, and repertoires of remarkable diversity.

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Jazz Album Review: Kenny Dorham’s Distinctive “Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco”

April 18, 2025
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“Blue Bossa in the Bronx” brings us into a jazz club on a good night. It’s unlike any other Kenny Dorham session, which makes it valuable indeed.

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Theater Review: “The Game’s Afoot” — Ploddingly

November 28, 2023
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Murder mystery and farce can coexist in the same play… for a time, at least. Eventually, the two will pull apart, however, as they do in this production.

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Rock Concert Review: Chameleons — Reviving Greatness

August 13, 2024
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The band’s performance at the Sinclair proved that the Chameleons are back in vintage form.

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Jazz Album Review: “Mingus at Carnegie Hall” — A Deluxe Edition of a Wondrous Evening

July 25, 2021
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This re-release features 72 minutes of unreleased music. Nearly every track on the two-hour set pushes the 20-minute range, with results more exhilarating than exhausting.

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Visual Arts Review: Virgil Abloh Is Bringing in the Outside at the ICA

July 6, 2021
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“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.

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Book Review: The Critic as Wildean Artist — Peter Schjeldahl’s Elements of Surprise

June 14, 2019
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Peter Schjeldahl debunks (and praises) works of art, while also acknowledging the strategic importance of beauty.

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TV/Film Review: “Paterno” — Acts of Dishonor

April 12, 2018
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What we want is for Al Pacino to convey something deeper, something illuminating about the fall of the hero from the highest reaches of the gods.

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Book Review: Classic Coming-of-Age?—The Chester Chronicles

October 24, 2010
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Kermit Moyer’s exquisitely written book, conceived with the greatest care and written with an art that conveys artlessness (the highest art of all), is a welcome addition to the American canon. The Chester Chronicles by Kermit Moyer. Permanent Press, 231 pages, $28. By Roberta Silman. As the epigraph for his first novel, Kermit Moyer quotes…

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