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Dance Review: At the ICA, Alessandro Sciarroni’s FOLK-S Mesmerizes

February 21, 2017
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The performance turned out to be a nervy but hypnotic game of endurance for performer and audience members.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra — Yo-Yo Ma plays Shostakovich

October 16, 2023
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A concert whose music served as a prayerful elegy for a world spinning out of control.

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Jazz CD Review: Eric Dolphy — Still a “Musical Prophet”

January 29, 2019
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Eric Dolphy fully deserves the renewed attention that this important release demands.

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Film Review: “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” — Chekhov’s Flamethrower

August 5, 2019
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Quentin Tarantino delights in exhausting his audiences as much as he does in entertaining them.

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Book Review: “Second Star and other reasons for lingering” — Making the Case for Concentration

May 14, 2023
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The point of the revelatory exercises in Second Star is to mentally invigorate, to sharpen how we look at the things in plain sight that we take for granted.

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Jazz Concert Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Aaron Diehl — A Remarkable Collaboration

February 8, 2020
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The recital of this remarkably self-aware singer was a series of highly literate and musically satisfying mini-dramas.

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Opera Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s Powerful “Love Potion”

November 21, 2014
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With its Opera Annex productions – presenting unfamiliar operas in unconventional performance spaces – Boston Lyric Opera really seems to have found its niche.

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Concert Review: Bob Dylan on Tour — No Nostalgia Allowed

July 15, 2016
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The set proved that Bob Dylan remains, among many other things, one of music’s great contrarians.

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Film Review: Go with the “Flow”

December 5, 2024
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This film puts “cat” back in catastrophe

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The Invention of Air: Eureka Interruptus

January 31, 2009
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By Harvey Blume “The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America,” Riverhead Books. $25.95. Steven Johnson’s new book is as dull and dispiriting as much of his previous work has been eye-opening and exhilarating. In the past, even if Johnson’s conclusions were questionable — as with the high…

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