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Film Review: “Gimme Danger” — A Fun House Story of The Stooges

November 4, 2016
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The documentary is a highly enjoyable musical and social history of the group and its times.

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Poetry Review: “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry” — The Duty to Run Mad

April 8, 2015
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Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.

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Concert Review: New England Philharmonic’s “Shall We Dance?”

October 27, 2014
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Quibbles about some characteristics of the new pieces aside, hats off to Richard Pittman and the New England Philharmonic for daring to present a program like this..

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Album Review: Innovative “Love & Mercy” Soundtrack is Worth the Wait

September 25, 2015
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Atticus Ross’ success in creating these pieces results in a listening experience quite a bit more harrowing and evocative than the lush and sunny Beach Boys harmonies people are accustomed to.

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Book Review: The Inside Story of Abbey Road Studio — Definitive

September 7, 2023
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The truth is the Beatles wouldn’t have been the Beatles without Abbey Road, and Abbey Road wouldn’t have been Abbey Road without the Beatles.

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Arts Remembrance: Art Critic and Historian Barbara Rose

December 30, 2020
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At a time when ambitious women of any sort were often harshly criticized for pursuing a professional career, Barbara Rose only forged on.

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Sundance Film Festival 2023 Dispatch #1 — Girls Just Wanna

January 28, 2023
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The three films I selected to start my 2023 Sundance journey were very different from one another, but they shared one common theme: girlhood.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — July 2

July 2, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Tidal Lock” — Living in a Trauma-Informed Reality

June 27, 2025
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The book is crafted, sentence for sentence, as a seemingly impossibly layered mindscape — rich if not overripe in what must be metaphor, must be symbolism.

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Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #6 — Learning from the Past

January 30, 2022
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This dispatch reviews three documentaries that are very different from each other, but are all fascinating and engaging. This was an excellent year for documentaries at Sundance. I will review several more before this year’s dispatches are complete.

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