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Rock Concert Review: Lamb of God — Heavy Metal’s Circle Will Indeed Be Unbroken

July 21, 2025
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Lamb of God’s show at the MassMutual Center was as spirited, fierce, and technically dazzling as any that the group has brought to these parts over the past two decades.

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Book Review: Amy Leach’s “The Salt of the Universe” — Fundamentalism Is Not Fun

August 16, 2024
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Amy Leach’s book may help you understand the rewards of  Christian fundamentalism for its followers — and how much richer a non-fundamentalist life can be.

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Theater Review: “The Merchant of Venice” — Rebooted Marvelously

October 3, 2021
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Audiences who are open to a show that provides both riotous comedy and bracing truths will find plenty to think about in this deconstruction of one of the Bard’s most problematic problem plays.

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Theater Review: CSC’s “The Tempest” — A Brilliantly Kinetic Staging

August 5, 2021
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CSC pulled out all the stops for its turn at The Tempest, bringing together a cast that is more than up to the challenge of knitting together poignant drama and madcap comedy.

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Classical CD Reviews: The Tchaikovsky Project, Schumann Symphonies nos. 2 & 4, and Holst Orchestral Works

September 14, 2019
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Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic do justice to a lot of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral music, while John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony play Robert Schumann’s famously-dense orchestrations with clarity. But Michael Stern’s account of The Planets completely lacks mystery.

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TV Review: “Flesh and Bone” — Once Again, Ballet as a Crazed Deathmatch

November 30, 2015
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If the creators of Flesh and Bone want to whip upanother trite soap opera, that’s their prerogative. But hush about the “realism.”

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Dance Review: Process Pieces From Harvard Dance Project

November 14, 2015
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Each of the ten or so music-less sections showed us a different way of composing movement.

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Film Review: “Dead of Winter” — Horror and the Art of Living Deliciously

January 24, 2017
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One of the lessons of the Dead of Winter series at the Brattle Theatre:”The occult is one of many tickets to the revolution.”

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Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts Presents the Beauty of BioArt

April 15, 2016
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Membrane: Biology and Art is a wonderfully conceived and curated show.

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Dance Review: Trophy Games at the Boston Ballet

November 1, 2016
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You’re not supposed to look for deep meaning in this often-revised jumbo of a ballet.

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