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Jazz Feature: Diversity Brings Riches — A Mid-Year Jazz Critics Poll

July 26, 2024
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Any survey of new jazz will show the broad range of creation being produced by an extraordinary diversity of musicians. That’s because jazz has spread all around the world, bringing us together in peace (and sometimes even harmony).

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Theater Review: Ayckbourn’s Comedy of Desire

February 26, 2010
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Boredom is the root of all evil . . . The influence that it exerts is altogether magical, except that it is not the influence of attraction, but of repulsion. — Søren Kierkegaard, “Either/Or” Private Fears in Public Places by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by David J. Miller. Set design by Miller. Staged by the Zeitgeist…

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Book Review: “Banal Nightmare” — A Smart Lampoon of the White and the Privileged

February 28, 2025
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Although novelist Halle Butler portrays the lives of millennial women (and men) as unhappy, anxious, and stressed, she does so in a highly entertaining way.

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Jazz Preview: The 2014 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

September 22, 2014
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Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the helm again as the artistic director.

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Film Review: “Bros” — A Thoroughly Mainstream Gay Rom-Com

October 4, 2022
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Bros jokes about the hypocrisies of corporate diversity — often accurately, and with a cutting edge — while embodying some of the same problems.

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Coming Attractions: January 22 through 31 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 15, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming weeks.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 7, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: Late Summer/Early Autumn Festival Update

August 30, 2014
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is back, and from Northampton to Falmouth jazz festivals abound throughout the waning days of summer and the arrival of autumn.

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Opera Album Review: Cyrille Dubois Does French Opera Arias — A Major Release to Treasure

June 3, 2024
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French opera arias, many recorded for the first time, by the enchanting tenor Cyrille Dubois. The vocal treasures here include a stirring 1842 denunciation of slavery in the Caribbean.

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Theater Review” “Intimate Exchanges” — Semi-furious Comic Froth

January 26, 2017
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It’s good fun and, for a while at least, it’s interesting to watch the actors fulfill the play’s impish demands.

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