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Theater Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Dogfight” — Kudos All Around

May 15, 2016
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Director Paul Daigneault and SpeakEasy Stage have a hit on their hands

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: March 2010

March 1, 2010
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By J. R. Carroll March is the month for Elder Statesmen—and drummers. Bassist Buster Williams has played and recorded with, well, damn near everyone, and currently leads his own Something More Quartet; they’ll be coming to Scullers on March 2 at 8 p.m. Photo by Mandy Hall, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Drummer…

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Coming Attractions in Theater: August 2011

July 29, 2011
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A busy month of theater, especially for off-speed, postmodern romances, while old-timers such as the Gershwins and Tennessee Williams receive some attention as well.

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Book Review: No “Odd Woman” Out — Vivian Gornick’s Richly Engaging Memoir

May 28, 2015
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Author Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.

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Doc Talk: Four Documentaries Defy Doomsday at the Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

May 16, 2024
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What have you done to prevent the end of the world? A quartet of documentaries in this year’s Global World Film Festival offer different answers to this nagging question.

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Film Commentary: Visions of “On the Road,” the Movie

December 21, 2012
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Jack Kerouac once said that “On the Road” “was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God,” but the spiritual element of his journey is completely lacking in the film.

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TV Review: Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” — Deserves All the Buzz

May 23, 2016
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It says something about where we are at as a country when the absurdist’s voice is the only one that is persuasively human.

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Visual Arts Feature: Spotlight on Scaasi — Revisiting an American Couturier

November 19, 2010
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This exhibit is ideal for the budding designer to come and admire dresses with structured tulle, unique hems, bias cut silk, pounds of beads, sequins, and rhinestones, weaved organza and mink accents. Scaasi: American Couturier at the Loring Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA until June 19, 2011. By Megan Trombino It…

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Short Fuse: Robert Stone’s ‘Fun With Problems’

March 9, 2010
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American author Robert Stone is attuned to the havoc latent in masculine pride and to the hostility likely to break out for no particular reason between males of our species. Fun With Problems: Stories by Robert Stone, Hougton Mifflin Harcourt, 195 pages, $24 Reviewed by Harvey Blume Though one of our prose masters, Robert Stone…

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Film Reviews: DocTalk at the Camden International Film Festival

September 12, 2024
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The cinematic shindig’s lineup features unconventional takes on familiar subjects.

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