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Theater Review: “Waitress” the Musical — An Enjoyable Slice of Down-Home Self-Discovery

August 23, 2015
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A few quibbles aside, the musical Waitress plays and sounds like it’s close to ready for the Broadway big time.

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Musician Interview: Kula Shaker’s Crispian Mills Talks About Performing at Brighton Music Hall and Making “Wormslayer”

September 16, 2025
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“America hasn’t lost its historical and romantic legacy for British bands. At least that’s the case with us, anyway.”

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Book Review: The Fine-Spun Harmonic Furies of William Gass’s “Middle C”

May 12, 2013
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Despite “Middle C”’s relative cheeriness, the novel passes a tough sentence on the human race, so uncompromising that its protagonist has a hard time writing it down.

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Remembrance: William Corbett — A Poet of Landscape, Weather, and Consciousness

August 16, 2018
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Some people fled William Corbett’s bravura; others stayed, laughing.

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Book Review: “In the Land of Good Living” — Satisfying Your Gonzo Curiosity

July 22, 2020
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Ah, Florida, “the grease trap under America’s George Foreman Grill”: not just “weird America,” also “impending America.”

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Classical Music Sampler: August 2010

July 30, 2010
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By Caldwell Titcomb August 3: The Old West Organ Society presents the award-winning, young organist Jacob Street in a program including works by Buxtehude, J. S. Bach, and Mendelssohn. He will also play music by Jean Langlais (1907-91) and Gaston Litaize (1909-91). At Old West Church, 131 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA, 8 p.m.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Blue Lives Madder, “Dirty Harry” Turns 50

June 4, 2021
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The path Dirty Harry (and too many of his defenders, then and now) chose to pursue — the urban policing version of “killing the village in order to save it” — was outdated and discredited even in 1971.

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Music Review: The Beatles are Still Here, There, and Everywhere

May 8, 2024
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Beatles fans are being treated to a three-fer of projects spanning three media genres: a restoration of the film “Let It Be,” a book focusing on the two 1967 songs “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane,” and an appearance on the new season of “Doctor Who”.

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Book Review: “Mona” — No Prisoners Taken

March 19, 2021
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It isn’t always easy being beautiful, brainy, and talented.

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Concert Review: Peter Gabriel — Still Trusting the Imagination

September 15, 2023
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The veteran English art-rocker gave a slow-to-develop but brilliant near-three-hour show that tapped stunning visuals while evolving from the cerebral to the celebratory, culminating in a joyous “In Your Eyes.”

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