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Concert Review: Tenacious D Returns

November 23, 2018
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass were happily living out their nerdy, rockstar dreams — and their fans were loving it.

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Book Review: “Heat” — An Imaginatively Imaginary Interview with Actress Jean Seberg

December 28, 2013
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“Heat” is a fictional interview in which Dickinson asks uncomfortably intimate questions and then imagines the answers Seberg might have given.

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Book Commentary: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Jonathan Lethem’s Influences

December 16, 2011
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For all of his claims to being a subversive termite, Jonathan Lethem the puffy white elephant appears more often in this collection, trudging down a much safer, much happier road — leave the negativity to the snotty aristocrats.

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Poetry Review: “A Word For It” — Poetry, From out of the Dictionary

December 14, 2017
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Warren Slesinger’s approach to poetry is experimental but skillful as well as entertaining.

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Arts Feature: The Lockdown Underground — Discoveries in Isolation

July 26, 2021
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Stuck in a world where regular shopping was rare and live performances extinct, the right path seemed to be the curls and swirls of mentions and references that led to surprising new or little-known artists and fascinating new levels of famous ones.

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Classical CD Reviews: Boston Modern Orchestra Project plays Steven Stucky and Johannes Moser plays Elgar

February 4, 2017
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BMOP releases a fitting, moving tribute to a giant of contemporary music; Johannes Moser turns in a sweeping performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto.

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Coming Attractions in Popular Music: December 2010

November 30, 2010
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The Ups and Downs of the biz. At this time of year it’s easy to question your choice of residence in sun-deprived New England. The cold, the wet, and the absence of vitamin D in your skin rattles through to your bones and leaves you asking, can we just skip to June already? You are…

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Theater Review: Company One’s “Astro Boy” Rockets into an Eye-Popping Adventure

July 21, 2014
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Company One’s production treats audiences to a seamless, eight-member ensemble who perform with a complicated bevy of multimedia effects that are so smoothly integrated into the action they elicit ooohs and aahs from the crowd.

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Film Review: Acknowledging Jean Epstein — Brilliant Maverick Filmmaker and Critic

January 29, 2016
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Jean Epstein’s body of work is full of pleasures and surprises: this vigorous director broke ground for filmmakers and cinematic movements to come.

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Fuse Commentary: “Pawn Sacrifice” — Missing Bobby Fischer

October 6, 2015
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I wish I had more thumbs to turn down about Pawn Sacrifice.

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