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TV Review: HBO’s “Looking” — Gay Life as Sweet and Sincerely Humanist

January 22, 2014
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Without being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” offers a fine lesson that being totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cool (and also hot hot) existence.

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Book Review: “Which Side Are You On?” — American History, Skimmed Over

January 14, 2019
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In its efforts to cram so much information into so small a space, the narrative becomes unfocused.

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Film Review: At the MFA’s French Film Festival — A Vivacious “Chic!”

July 22, 2015
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Mechanical as Chic!’s story is, it is rare to have this kind of French fluff put across with so much charm and vivacity.

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Book Review: “What You Can See From Here” – Hopefully Romantic

June 13, 2021
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There is enough candor and humor, along with a handful of bracingly moody characters, to make Mariana Leky’s vision of perpetual love compelling.

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Pop Album Review: Beach House’s “Once Twice Melody” — Plenty of the Same Old Good Thing

March 28, 2022
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Once Twice Melody goes about refining rather than changing Beach House’s vision of dream pop.

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Theater Review: “Pippin” Up the Dance

January 6, 2013
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When this version of Pippin hits New York, it will be a welcome alternative to the trend among many of the current Broadway musicals to demote dance elements to the background.

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Film Review: “The Little Hours” — What the Donkey Sees

July 3, 2017
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A romp in and around a centuries-old Italian convent, acting out a 14th-century story using contemporary American idiom and attitude.

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Theater Review: “KNYUM” — Opening up to the World

January 17, 2018
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KNYUM is unlike anything else New England theatre currently has to offer — in the best possible way.

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Theater Review: “The Rose Tattoo” — A Spectacular Production from the Williamstown Theatre Festival

July 4, 2016
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This superb production offers audiences a chance to discover or rediscover an American classic.

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Film Review: Nicholas Jarecki’s “Crisis” — Death, Opioids, and Corporate Greed

February 27, 2021
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Crisis takes on the opioid crisis – which has killed more people than the war in Vietnam — and gives corporate villainy (Big Pharma) the Hollywood treatment.

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