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Dance Review: Dancing with Ancestors

March 21, 2005
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Urban Bush Women go back to the past in the name of a more communal and compassionate future. By Debra Cash View Gallery The names of Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Dubois, Shirley Chishom and Ossie Davis roll down like a mighty stream. On stage, Amara Tabor-Smith of the Urban Bush Women reaches across space, at turns…

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Arts Interview: Talking With David Milch

June 6, 2019
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“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”

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Book Review: Jack Kerouac’s “Pic” — Last But Not Least

January 17, 2024
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In “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac voiced a longing to be “other.” He achieves this transfiguration in “Pic.”

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Film Festival Review: Dispatch From the New York Film Festival, 2025

September 26, 2025
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It’s hard to imagine that Hollywood suits would get behind a movie focused on a corrupt political regime, even one that’s now history.

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Fuse Restaurant Review: Wasabi in North Cambridge — Superior Sushi

January 6, 2015
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What is served at Wasabi is so-o-o-o fresh.

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Arts Commentary: It’s OK to Like Board Games, Even the Bad Ones

September 29, 2021
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These cheesy board games were repetitive and horrible and I loved every one of them.

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Book Review: “Writing for Their Lives” – How Women Established a Beachhead for Science Journalism

August 24, 2023
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The nearly 60 women science writers mentioned in “Writing for Their Lives” – and listed in an  appendix – are testament to women’s pioneering contribution to science journalism.

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Theater Review: Down Chekhovian Way

April 28, 2011
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A Chekhovian dramatic fabric calls for a tough/tender gift for realism. Getting the balance right is tricky — too much reassurance veers toward easy sentimentality, while excessive punishment pushes the proceedings toward soap opera.

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Visual Arts Review: Exotic Blooms and Curious Creatures — Rachel Ruysch at the MFA

September 14, 2025
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This exhibition takes viewers around the world through the specimens brought to Amsterdam by Dutch explorers. It invites close looking, and the museum has prepared a scavenger hunt handout with select bugs and flowers to seek out.

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Film Review: “The Beach Bum” — Purposefully Boneheaded

April 5, 2019
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If you’re the kind of person who coveted every word and wild-man gesture of inebriated Hunter S. Thompson, The Beach Bum could be your movie.

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