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Chiptune Album Review: YMCK’s “Family Innovation” — 8bit Cynicism Toward Web 3.0

December 3, 2022
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In its ninth album, YMCK shows that it is becoming self-aware. They are no longer just avatars we are to identify with, but also (satirically) the corporate entity behind them, a corporation preoccupied, like all others, with innovation.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Red Rose” is Teen Social Media Horror

March 9, 2023
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Technology-driven horror narratives are ubiquitous these days: Red Rose has an authentic look that makes its creepiness distressingly plausible.

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Film Review: “The Unknown Known” — As Insanely Entertaining as a Mad Hatter Tea Party.

April 11, 2014
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My first thought: filming Donald Rumsfeld can only be rationalized if it’s a front for a citizen’s arrest.

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Movie Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — Neighbors Near and Far

November 5, 2011
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Congratulations to the Boston Jewish Film Festival are certainly due to its longevity and general quality.

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Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Wolfe and Górecki

March 17, 2023
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Brimming with edge-of-seat intensity and fist-waving theatricality, Julia Wolfe’s oratorio “Her Story” is the unequivocal highlight of the current BSO season.

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Book Review: A French Feminist Struggles with Her Abortion Decision

May 2, 2023
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Does the world really need another personal abortion story? The answer is “yes,” Pauline Harmange argues.

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Film Review: “The Beanie Bubble” — Much Ado About a Sack of Beans

July 24, 2023
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>Like many fads from the ’90s and early aughts, beanie babies are now getting the Hollywood treatment.

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Rock Remembrance: Tom Verlaine

January 31, 2023
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Tom Verlaine will be most remembered for Marquee Moon, both the album and title track, which alone would be enough to seal any legacy.

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Film Review: “A Quiet Place Part II” — Women Will Be Our Salvation

May 28, 2021
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Survival is the primary motivation, and the film’s unrelenting series of unexpected attacks generate considerable tension.

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Book Review: “Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun” — Hero and Zero

May 3, 2021
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Jeff Chon focuses on the weaknesses that see violence as an expression of strength: sexism and racism, an obsession with identity that devolves into an ideological search for purity.

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