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Rock Album Review: “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” — Fiona Apple’s Perfectly Imperfect Storm

April 20, 2020
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Not only is Fetch the Bolt Cutters the most stunning of Apple’s five albums, it’s the most impressive pop record of this young pandemic year, its bottled turmoil speaking to our own pent-up nerves.

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Music Festival Review: The Newport Folk Festival — Not Tired, By a Long Shot

July 31, 2024
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The Newport Folk Festival always pulls off unique, unexpected collaborations, while it embraces a head-spinning lineup of diverse genres that reflects its spirit of community.

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Film Review: “Ronnie’s” — The Story of a World-Famous London Jazz Club

February 6, 2022
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Mel Brooks called Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club “a little nest of happiness. All our recent wounds are healed there.”

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Theater Review: Praxis Stage’s “Coriolanus” — Riled-Up Warriors

October 30, 2019
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The audience members were as diverse as the cast, the show is not being staged in a traditional space in Boston, and the play is incredibly relevant.

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Book Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories of Sait Faik

February 27, 2015
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Sometimes called the “Turkish Balzac” and, more often, the “Turkish Chekhov,” Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.

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Musician Interview: Prog-Rock’s Senior Bass Master Tony Levin — Still Searching for the Ideal

November 17, 2024
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Now, at least through mid-December, bassist Tony Levin – also a prolific photographer and blogger on tour — remains happy recasting King Crimson dreams each night with Beat

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Jazz Album Review: Charles Lloyd & the Marvels — Still Telling Genre-Blurring Stories

March 17, 2021
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It’s rare to find a band that so naturally assimilates its individual voices to strike a collective palette.

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Film Review: “French Exit’ — In This Absurdist Romp a Diva Makes a Grand Exit

February 12, 2021
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Defiant and tonally offbeat, French Exit mirrors, in a sense, its female protagonist, who doesn’t give a damn what the world thinks of her.

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Film Review: “The Power of the Dog” — A Beautiful Study in Contrasts

November 24, 2021
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Director Jane Campion’s sharp adaptation of Thomas Savage’s novel focuses on the damage done to those who surrender to the alluring but pernicious “sword” of social conformity.

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Film Review: Shakespeare’s “Tempest,” Technologically Enhanced

December 19, 2010
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Julie Taymor’s film version of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is conclusive proof that just because we can do something with technology does not mean that we should. Less is often more, and one great text in hand is worth a dozen computers in the mix. And what was the director thinking with the racist portrayal…

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