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Visual Arts Review: London’s “Paul Klee: Making Visible” — Endlessly Inventive

January 9, 2014
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Few artists in history have been as multifarious and prolific as Paul Klee – only Picasso and Ernst come to mind.

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Jazz CD Review: A Worthy “Elvin Jones Project”

August 17, 2012
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Bassist Michael Feinberg has done many things right in his richly varied tribute to the great percussionist Elvin Jones.

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Book Review: “Smedley’s Secret Guide to Literature” — Teenage Lit-Land

August 8, 2016
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This savvy, witty, and casually erudite novella proves that when it comes portraying adolescence in fiction the less sentimentality the better.

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Film Review: “Thelma” — Surreal Adolescence

January 20, 2018
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Thelma learns that she can’t escape who she is — but she can control what she does.

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Film Review: “Joker” — Here Come the Killer Clowns

October 3, 2019
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Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.

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TV Commentary: Jon Stewart — He Told Us to Put the Bong Down

August 26, 2015
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There’s no question Jon Stewart had the attention of millions but, all kidding aside, was he a part of the political game or just a color commentator?

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Rock Concert Review: Jack White with the Raconteurs — Very Much in the Moment

September 12, 2019
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On the same week that heavy prog-rockers Tool scored the No. 1 album in the country, it was great to see Jack White let down his wavy black hair, smile a bunch, and kick out the jams with his buddies.

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Book Review: “Milk Fed” — The Glory of the Zaftig

December 1, 2021
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For all the sensual lushness of Melissa Broder’s writing, that hard center remains, one where appetite invites awareness, bringing with it pain as well as satiety.

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Book Review: Playing in the Shadows of the Modernist Giants

June 29, 2011
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The wily Enrique Vila-Matas remains wary but respectful of Ernest Hemingway and asserts his independence by going on his own self-consciously vaudevillian way—Juan Gabriel Vásquez is too subservient to elude the shadow of Joseph Conrad.

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Jazz Concert Review: Portrait of Composer/Pianist Ran Blake — Celebrating 85 Years

March 25, 2021
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Ran Blake was in fine form at the festivities as were the New England Conservatory faculty and student participants.

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