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Music Interview: Michael Daves on How Anyone can be a Bluegrass Singer

February 12, 2019
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“You don’t really know how to perform bluegrass until you interact with others.”

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Jazz Album Review: Butcher Brown’s “#KingButch” — Beautifully Blurring Retro and Progressive

September 21, 2020
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“Best band in the world”? Butcher Brown spends the next 40 minutes or so living up to its boast, as song after song heads off into a different direction without a stumble or misfire.

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Book Review: Picturing Will Shakespeare

January 26, 2005
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By David Stenhouse Stephen Greenblatt’s acclaimed biography of Shakespeare is filled with fascinating speculations. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt (Norton) King Lear’s coaxing plea to Cordelia that “nothing can come of nothing” has always offered a stark challenge for biographers of William Shakespeare. On the page or on the…

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Book Review: China’s Surreal Corruption

April 22, 2005
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A new novel by a Chinese dissident provides a comically stinging vision of his homeland.

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Opera Album Review: The Boston Early Music Festival — One of the Best Recordings Ever of a Baroque Opera

April 16, 2022
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The Boston Early Music Festival returns in person — and in a world-premiere recording of a German Baroque opera.

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Arts Remembrance: William Peter Blatty — Cultivating the Horror Cinema Landscape

January 16, 2017
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William Peter Blatty may have created a comparatively small body of work, but he played a major role in the evolution of American horror.

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Television Review: Disney’s Live-Action “Pinocchio” — A Necessary Remake

September 20, 2022
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There are cringe-worthy moments as well as scenes of mesmerizing beauty in Disney’s live-action Pinocchio. But I’ll go against the critical grain and argue, for several small reasons, and for one big one, that it was necessary to make it.

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Classical CD Review: An Inspiring 80th Birthday Tribute to Conductor Claudio Abbado

July 22, 2013
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This attractive, inexpensive box set dedicated to Claudio Abbado contains a rich gathering of lucid, colorful recordings, among the most accomplished modern performances of symphonies that are absolutely central to the repertoire.

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Stage Interview: Dramatist Jacqui Parker Talks About How Black Lives Matter: “A Crack in the Blue Wall”

November 4, 2015
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“Theater producers do not want to make their audience members uncomfortable and talking about race makes folks uncomfortable.”

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Book Commentary/Review: Imagine There Are No Negative Reviews — It’s Not So Easy If You Try

September 10, 2012
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Who has taken criticism out of the hands of the “true critics”? Is someone making me read rancid Amazon reader reviews? Where do we look for the “true critics”?

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