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Concert Review: Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye — A Very Modern Organ Trio

June 12, 2023
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At New Hampshire’s just-christened Nashua Center for the Arts, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Pat Metheny shared a wily sidelong glance at his own broad compositional and improvisational history.

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Book Review: Yves Bonnefoy’s Meditation on Poetry — Heady But Essential

April 7, 2013
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Yves Bonnefoy’s book is, fundamentally, a spiritual autobiography; yet it draws extensively on the outside world and ponders how it can be described in writing or depicted in painting.

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Book Review: Bringing Nathaniel Hawthorne Home

February 18, 2013
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Unlike fellow apostate (and friend) Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne didn’t have the chutzpah to be a proto-existentialist — for him, it was better to cling to questionable moral pieties than plummet into sheer nothingness.

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Theater Review: An Epic Tale of Pursuer and Pursued — NT Live’s “Frankenstein”

March 25, 2011
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In this compelling stage version of “Frankenstein,” urgency of revenge pushes forward, murder upon murder. Creature and Doctor merge in immorality. Both are playing God in their command of life and death. Sharing roles is the meaning of this theatrical experience. This is their message and their show.

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Visual Arts Review: “Fired Up: Glass Today” — Remarkable Beauty

October 4, 2022
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The dignified design and subtle lighting of the Wadsworth installation manages to keep the diversity, frenetic variety, and colorist’s dream of this exhibition from being overwhelming.

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Film Review: “The Canyons” — Yucky But Likeable

August 31, 2013
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Lindsay Lohan is prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.

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Book Review: “Savage Kiss” — Children’s Criminal Crusade

January 2, 2021
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Maybe the greatest value of Saviano’s narratives is that they rebuke the complicity of silence; they are acts of dissent that refuse to kowtow to the oppressive omertà.

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Theater Review: At the A.R.T., “The Tempest” is Toast

May 16, 2014
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Is it the Bard or a magic show? The prestidigitation wins out given the wanness of the dramatic proceedings.

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Music Review: Providence Art-Pop Trio Arc Iris stretches its wings in “iTMRW”

January 28, 2020
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So, after three original albums (plus a re-imagining of Joni Mitchell’s Blue) that fell short of wide acclaim, perhaps it was only a matter of time for them to think big.

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Theater Review: “Sanctuary City” — Hiding in Plain Sight

August 24, 2023
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In this script, dramatist Martyna Majok has created an opportunity for those who live in (or near) cities to see and hear the struggles of the underclass.

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