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Theater Review: “Hype Man” — Indispensable Viewing

November 10, 2018
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Hype Man is a complex and challenging treatment of race relations in the U.S.– indispensable viewing in these days of Trump.

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Poetry Review: Valerio Magrelli’s “Vanishing Points”

March 19, 2011
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Magrelli’s is a reserved, critical intelligence, and his poems do not issue from a position of knowledge, but rather from a doubt that stands, and dances, slowly on a profound respect for ambiguity.

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Book Review: “The Last Weynfeldt” — The Virtues of a Wry, Cosmopolitan Vibe

March 15, 2016
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In this enjoyable novel, Martin Suter has chosen to sidestep depth in favor of colorful characters fine-honing their hopes and dreams..

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Book Review: The Rise and Fall of a Multivocal and Multicultural Alternative — “The Village Voice”

January 6, 2025
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Looking back, the writing in the “Village Voice” was as good as Tricia Romano’s subjects remember. She excerpts paragraphs and the language is fresh, distinctive, sometimes profane, and always worth reading. For those who wrote books, it will send you back to the bookshelf.

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Jazz Concert Review: Arturo Sandoval — Master Showman and Musician

August 22, 2018
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Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is a big personality and in this performance he was almost as much raconteur, comedian and ringmaster as musician.

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Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Take Two

April 9, 2013
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“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” suggests the dismissive attitude the public has toward African American actors, but the script doesn’t go far enough to make its title character three-dimensional.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Knock! The Daniil Kharms Project” — Absurdity Knocked About

October 7, 2014
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Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to–the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.

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Visual Arts Review: Lopsided Partners in Surrealism — Man Ray and Lee Miller

November 25, 2011
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Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism explores the relationship between two of the most celebrated surrealists of the 20th century, but the pattern of influence comes off as revealingly lopsided — the female artist of the pair more often than not inspired the male.

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Concert Review: Orchestre National de France at Symphony Hall

January 25, 2016
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My snoring neighbor left during intermission (he was roused a bit when the musical vigor picked up in the finale of the Mozart).

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Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic plays Auerbach, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky

October 24, 2016
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Conductor Benjamin Zander and his band were at their collective best performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6.

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