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Arts Commentary: Ducking Blowback

August 6, 2007
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Yesterday, a Boston Globe editorial asked that Josiah Spaulding, Jr., president of the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC) be replaced. Of course he should go, but that will not solve the CPAC’s problems. Yesterday, a Boston Globe editorial asked that Josiah Spaulding, Jr., president of the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC) be replaced. The suggestion…

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Book Review: “We Carry Their Bones” — Life and Death at a Reform School During Jim Crow

August 15, 2022
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We Carry Their Bones arrives at a time of increased interest in the history of racism and reform schools, particularly in Florida.

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Book Review: “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns” — The Case for Comediansplaining

June 22, 2021
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‘Lived experience’ doesn’t automatically confer moral or political insight, argues social critic Ben Burgis, but if we can make others laugh at that assumption we might be getting somewhere.

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Rock Album Review: Earth’s Masterpiece — “Primitive and Deadly” or How Doom Came to America

September 19, 2014
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Masters of Doom: the band Earth forges a classic in an aged, durable style of heavy metal.

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Music Commentary: The Inspiration of “Music for Food”

September 18, 2012
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The pairing of food for the stomach and food for the soul made me think of the role of culture in extreme situations.

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Arts Commentary: On Racism and World’s Fairs in the Harvard Art Museums

December 8, 2014
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How African pygmies came to St. Louis has everything to do with Barnum, with freak shows, with unreconstructed racism.

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Theater News: IRNE@23 — Boisterous Irreverence

April 9, 2019
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The IRNE event did what it has done for decades: cast a warm glow on a vibrant local theater scene and those who are dedicated to entertain, astonish, and inspire.

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Classical Album Review: “John Adams” — Mastering the Style of an Iconic American Composer

October 3, 2022
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This recording presents one of the most lucid and well-programmed portraits of John Adams to emerge, well, in a long while.

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Theater Review: “Spank!: The Fifty Shades Parody” Packs Too Broad a Wallop

June 5, 2013
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“Fifty Shades of Grey”‘s infamous “red room of pain,” where Christian Grey keeps his S&M tools neat and clean, is never displayed, while none of the novel’s dominant-submissive sexual fetishes are exploited for sly laughs.

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Classical Music Review: Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble

October 13, 2009
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By Caldwell Titcomb Three works by major composers made up the free concert presented by the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble on October 10 at the Midway Studios in South Boston. On the podium was Eric Hewitt, who holds a bachelor’s in saxophone performance and a master’s in conducting – both from the New England Conservatory…

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