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Children’s Book Reviews: Belonging — Family and Friends

June 11, 2024
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Three new picture books offer help for kids wanting to be perfect, giving feedback, and finding your place in the world.

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Children’s Book Reviews: Accepting and Appreciating Others

March 19, 2025
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Two picture books explore issues of gender, self-identity, and gender stereotypes for a young audience.

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Dance Review: Flamenco Dance — Unapologetically Sexy

March 12, 2024
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Flamenco is big, bold, and fully human as it (often) traces the tensions of courtship, indulging in the sensual and the aggressive.

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Concert Review: Marc-André Hamelin plays Ives, Hamelin, Schumann, and Ravel

May 11, 2024
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Pianist Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated a total command and control of his materials.

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Film Review: “Red, White & Royal Blue” — A Too Magical Romance?

August 14, 2023
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Sanitized as it is, “Red, White & Royal Blue” is a sign of progress — a queer rom-com has finally entered the fairy-tale film canon.

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Television Review: “Sanctuary” — A Double Dose of Toxic Masculinity

May 14, 2023
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Netflix’s dumb series Sanctuary serves up a cartoon view of sumo wrestling.

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Classical Concert Review: Boston Baroque’s “Iphigénie en Tauride”

April 22, 2023
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By Aaron Keebaugh Lithe and economical, Boston Baroque’s superb production of Iphigénie en Tauride proved the old adage that less can be more. Iphigénie en Tauride, an opera in four acts. Libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard. Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Performed by Boston Baroque. Martin Pearlman, conductor. Mo Zhou, stage director. At GBH’s Calderwood Studio,…

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Film Review: “Spoiler Alert” — A Comfortable and Comforting LGBTQIA+ Story

February 10, 2023
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Spoiler Alert is arranged to make the viewer feel snug, like a cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter day.

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Jazz Album Review: They Must Have Been “hEARoes”

June 23, 2023
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The trio on hEARoes is enthralling; it doesn’t sound like anything I have heard.

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Television Review: “The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For” — Past Its Expiration Date

December 2, 2021
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As it chronicles the rise and fall of the titular Von Dutch brand, the series tries to exploit nostalgia and true crime at the same time.

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