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Arts Interview: Postmodernism with the late Umberto Eco

February 25, 2016
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“All my effort is to transform machines into narrative, to show how much narrative power they have inside them, how they can tell stories.”

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Visual Arts: A Splendid “Teaching the Body” — Exploring the Venerable Art of Anatomy

March 29, 2013
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Anyone interested in figurative art ought to rush over to Boston University’s Stone Gallery before “Teaching the Body” ends this Sunday.

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2022 Newport Folk Festival Review: An Occasion for Awe

July 27, 2022
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The Newport Folk Festival’s biggest secrets were cleanly hidden and tightly executed with the day-capping revelations of Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell.

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Concert and Album Review: Palma Violets — Live at Great Scott and “Danger in the Club”

May 25, 2015
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Palma Violets’ bruising performance Tuesday secured their place as one of the best live acts in the world.

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Classical CD Review: Great Performances — “Under Stalin’s Shadow,” vol. 2 (Deutsche Grammophon)

May 27, 2016
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That Shostakovich left such a musical testament is, in its own way, miraculous; and it continues to speak to us with immediacy and power.

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Concert Review: The 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — The Blessed Return of Musical Serendipity

May 29, 2022
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We’d returned to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. We’d ridden a paddle-wheeler on the Mississippi River. It was good to be back, and why we’ll go back every chance we get: to life.

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The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: The Nuts and Bolts

January 10, 2025
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There is a lot of extraordinary jazz out there that few of us are noticing, myself included.

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Theater Review: “Rose” — A Well-Acted Excursion in Storytelling

September 12, 2019
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Carolyn Michel’s Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end.

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Fuse News: Who Will Fight for the Survival of Arts Education in Our Schools?

July 18, 2013
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Efforts to ensure that arts education is a significant part of our schools is not the kind of glamorous activity that prys dollars out of the wallets of donors or drums up tourism.

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Poetry Review: Nobel Prizewinner Vicente Aleixandre—The Poetics of Kissing

May 27, 2013
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This translation of “Poems of Consummation” is important for several reasons, one of which is that the 1977 Nobel prizewinner—despite the award—has long been insufficiently preeminent in our Anglo-American view of twentieth-century Spanish poetry.

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