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Book Review: “How to Listen to Jazz” — A Helpful Earful

July 26, 2016
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Readers inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia’s historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz’s various forms.

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Film Review: “The Invisible Woman” — The Elusive Story of Boz’s Babe

January 17, 2014
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We do feel Charles Dickens’s heart tenderly beating, swept away by Nelly Ternan’s poised beauty, and it’s touching in an almost Chekhovian way, his being smitten by a love which can only bring sorrow.

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Film Review: “Farewell, Mr. Haffmann” — Selling the Family Jewels

April 6, 2024
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This is a tense morality play, with twists odd enough (and a palette dark enough) to sustain a noir-inflected thriller of almost two hours.

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Arts Commentary: “Fast Car” — Mainstream Country’s Detour from Diversity

July 19, 2023
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Black and openly queer women are not allowed in the Nashville club. Secretly gay white men are not doing too badly, though.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The New Geometry of Boston’s Skyline

March 5, 2023
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Two campus structures and one downtown office building speak a new visual language.

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Theater Review: Bearing “The Torch-Bearers”

August 4, 2009
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By Bill Marx George Kelly’s 1922 comedy about amateur theatrics gone wild is showing its age. The Torch-Bearers, by George Kelly. Adapted and directed by Dylan Baker. Presented by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, through August 9, 2009. Katie Finneran, Edward Herrmann, and Andrea Martin acting up a storm as amateur thespians in The Torch-Bearers. Critics…

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 4

December 4, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “America: The Farewell Tour” — Has Our Ship Already Sailed?

December 2, 2018
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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

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Book Review: “In the Midnight Hour” — The Tempestuous Life of Wilson Pickett

February 17, 2017
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Tony Fletcher’s research is impeccable, his sources are unimpeachable, and his style is thoroughly engaging.

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Book Review: Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” — Alone At Last With Lots She Wants to Say

January 17, 2019
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Becoming is a contemporary woman’s adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator who took a leap out of her comfort zone and came out of it, with her family intact, to tell the tale.

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