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Dance Review: Wishing on Lar’s Star

October 22, 2012
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Where “Little Rhapsodies” is a ballet that winks with the implication that no one will really get hurt, “Crisis Variations”, choreographed last season, lurches into the void.

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Concert Review: Jake Bugg Live at the Paradise Rock Club

September 23, 2013
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The crowd at the Paradise Rock Club was awful, and whether Jake Bugg noticed this or not, it caused him to turn in a pretty mediocre performance.

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Concert Review: Cowboy Junkies — Still Outside the Mainstream

February 18, 2024
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For years now, Cowboy Junkies has been bringing its brand of contemplative, atmospheric rock ’n’ roll into a patchwork of independent venues in our region.

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Film Review: “Oh, Canada” — Remembrance of Uncertainty Past

December 10, 2024
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The aim is to evoke, critically, a period when adventure, for men, was about running away to Cuba or going on Kerouac-inspired road trips.

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Opera Album Review: “Circé,” A Big Hit from the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, Now Enchantingly Recorded

May 13, 2024
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The BEMF performed the work in July 2023 in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, to enormous enthusiasm.

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Rock Feature: Melvins Turns 40 — One of the “Twins of Evil”

September 15, 2023
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“I always thought this would last six months,” confesses Melvins guitarist, singer, and songwriter Buzz Osborne. “You really can’t count on anything.”

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Concert Review: Nick Mason’s Fabulous Saucerful of Secrets

October 10, 2022
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Unlike the slow, spacy stonerism of the 1973-77 era, early Pink Floyd is a much more rocking experience, and those foundational tunes of English psychedelia take on the excitement of punk to modern ears when heard live.

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Theater Review: “The Minutes” on Broadway Beguiles and Befuddles

April 29, 2022
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts’s new Broadway play features an intriguing premise and a shocking denouement.

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Film Review: “Pacifiction” — Paradise Misplaced

March 16, 2023
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A lot seems to be going on beneath the surface, but the surface itself is so beguiling, with the scenery, sea, and sunsets rapturously shot on digital cameras by cinematographer Artur Tort, and with the alternately lulling and agitating soundtrack, that the urgency tends to lapse.

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Book Review: “The Crossroads of Civilization” — Vienna as Bridge Builder Between East and West

July 27, 2022
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Angus Robertson has written a thoroughly enjoyable history of Vienna that is both accurate and entertaining.

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