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Concert Review: With Perfect Timing, Steve Hackett Bites into Genesis’s “Lamb”

October 14, 2025
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One of the best things about the 40-minute selection from “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” that stood at the center of guitarist Steve Hackett’s near-three-hour show was its focus on the music without visual bolstering.

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Dispatch #4 from the New York Film Festival: Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” 

October 18, 2025
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In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.

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Visual Art and Design: A Design Controversy on Four Wheels — The Tesla Cybertruck

October 11, 2025
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Let me be clear where I stand on the Cybertruck controversy. I have never ridden in, driven, or even touched one. But I love the way it looks.

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Film Review: “Orwell: 2+2=5” — Big Brother Is Here

October 11, 2025
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Director Raoul Peck, like his subject George Orwell, encourages critical thinking and urges us to consider how best to resist the strengthening forces of tyranny.

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Doc Talk: Eyes in Gaza

October 16, 2025
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Documentaries at the Boston Palestine Film Festival look into the abyss.

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Arts Remembrance: Lenny Bruce — On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth

October 13, 2025
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Raise a glass to Lenny Bruce, champion for—and martyr to—Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech. October 13, 2025, is the hundredth anniversary of his birth in Mineola, New York.

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Book Review: “Against Morality” — The Shaming Regime

October 17, 2025
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“Against Morality” is the cri de coeur of a cultural critic who realizes that the presentation of art and its adjacent pursuits, including much art itself, have become the subsidiaries of progressive politics.

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Concert Review: Junction Trio Journeys Through the Demanding Sonic Terrain of John Zorn

October 1, 2025
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The Junction Trio offered the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.

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Toronto Film Festival: “Nuns vs. The Vatican” — Courage, Cover-Ups, and Calls for Accountability

October 10, 2025
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“Nuns vs. The Vatican” prepares its audience for an ongoing story that is expanding each time one more victim agrees to talk publicly. Do not doubt that there will be a sequel.

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Concert Review: The Flaming Lips — Still Keeping the Pink Robots at Bay

April 26, 2024
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“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” was the only record of the Flaming Lips that I knew in any real depth; it turns out that the band’s live show was  heartwarming, a buoyant and visually exuberant experience.

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