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Dance Review: Beth Gill’s Passages

May 16, 2017
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Offering a carefully calibrated, nearly static universe, Beth Gill relies on the audience’s imagination to fill in any question marks

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Visual Arts Review: In Gloucester, Edward Hopper Became Hopper

August 6, 2023
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A leitmotif of this exhibition underlines Josephine Nivison Hopper’s role in her husband’s emergence as one of the most successful and beloved artists of his generation.

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Book Review: “How to Build a Boat” — A Novel That Breaks and Lifts the Heart

March 1, 2024
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This splendid book should be read by every child and adult who is convinced he doesn’t “fit in.”

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Dance Review: Compagnie Hervé Koubi — Looping through the Categories

January 17, 2018
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Performance has always included sex and physicality in its attractions. Koubi’s work tries to move the spectators to a higher level.

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Book Review: “Look Who’s Back” — The Second Coming

July 1, 2015
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The writing in this novel depends on winks and nods. You’re invited to be in on a big joke, assuming it is one.

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Jazz Album Review: Bill Evans and Tony Bennett, 50 Years After

August 27, 2025
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Perhaps the most well-known jazz piano-vocal duo recordings were made in 1975 by Bill Evans and Tony Bennett. For me, these performances are sui generis — a high-water mark of the form.

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Book Review: Time, Beautiful and Cruel — The Story of Composer George Russell

March 23, 2011
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In the best of all possible worlds, Duncan Heining’s biography will be the cornerstone of the edifice that time will erect to the memory of George Russell and his gift to music. Whether that will happen or not remains to be seen. In some ways, because of the vagaries of the book business, it’s up…

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Coming Attractions: October 27 through November 12 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 27, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Theater Review: Lincoln in the Shooting Gallery – “Topdog/Underdog” at The Huntington Theatre Company

March 20, 2017
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This is a wonderful production of an important play that still has a dog in the fight.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 15, 2025
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This week’s poem: Clara Burghelea’s “How to resist gluttonous grief”

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