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Book Review: “Free” — A Communist Childhood

May 18, 2022
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With gentle humor and insight, Lea Ypi draws rich portraits of the three caring adults she grew up with in the authoritarian world of her childhood in Albania.

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Music Interview: Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins on “Songs of the Recollection”

April 10, 2022
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“I may second guess how a song was recorded. But I can say that all that we have done has come from an honest place.”

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Book Review: “A Life of My Own” — Reserved to a Fault

October 16, 2018
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Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.

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Film Review: Spike Jonze’s “Her” — Is This Love Affair Creepy? Or Probing?

December 31, 2013
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Is “Her” exploring truths about romance and emotional need? Or is this a creepy look into how far we’ve surrendered to the infantilizing embrace of technology?

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Classical Music Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ludovic Morlot at Symphony Hall

November 29, 2011
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While I’m not necessarily sold on this particular interpretation of Mahler Symphony no. 1, it was a thoughtful reading led with conviction; conductor Ludovic Morlot drew a committed performance from the BSO, and that counts for something.

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Book Review: “What Makes the Monkey Dance” — The Mystery of Chuck Prophet

August 23, 2020
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What Makes the Monkey Dance is a comprehensive examination of the life and career of an extraordinary artist that is smart enough to stop short of hagiography.

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Folk Music Review: Dan Reeder — Weighing Consequences and Accepting Defeat… “Just Feels Sorta Natural”

February 28, 2020
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Uplifting tunes for the aspiring curmudgeon you didn’t know you’d already become

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Book Review: Doing the “Art Monster” Mash

August 11, 2024
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The art monster is messy, ambitious, and narcissistic but couldn’t care less about what you think. Are you frightened?

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NY Theater Review: “The Connector” – Truth or Consequences

February 16, 2024
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The musical’s focus on truth in journalism resonates in our post-2016, “fake news,” and Artificial Intelligence-saturated environment.

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Film Review: “The Mother and the Whore” — Not By Words Alone

September 1, 2023
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“The Mother and the Whore” is a film about failure: its characters are pushed towards misery not only by their own flaws, but by the failure of the ‘60s to deliver a promised revolution.

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