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Film Reviews: “Huesera: The Bone Woman” and “The Starling Girl” — Unorthodox Appeals

May 17, 2023
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Both debut features by young women directors open with prayers.

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Theater Review: “Life of Pi” — An Enchantingly Theatrical Ocean Voyage

December 17, 2022
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This stunning, brand new production of UK’s Life of Pi is stopping in Cambridge for a month or so before sailing down to Broadway.

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Film Interview: “Secundaria” — Learning the Art of Ballet in Cuba

September 9, 2013
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UPDATE: “Secundaria” will screen this Friday as part of BU’s Cinematheque series on Friday, September 13, 7 p.m. Boston University,

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Film Reconsideration: Greta Garbo — 30 Years After Her Death

July 20, 2020
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Women’s maltreatment for 3,000 years registers on Greta Garbo’s tragic visage, whether she is Anna Christie, Camille, or Queen Christina.

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Film Review: “The White Crow” — God’s Acrobat

May 8, 2019
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The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Pat Falco’s MOCK — A Resonant Statement about Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis

December 6, 2019
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With MOCK, the artist has made made an exceptionally powerful statement, conceptually and physically, about Boston’s increasingly dire affordable housing predicament.

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Concert Review: Cantata Singers — An Evening of Biblical Power

May 17, 2017
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The Cantata Singers prefaced its intriguing, Jewish-themed performance with a marvelously sensory, spiritual experience.

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Arts Commentary: The Battle for Imagination — Unraveling America’s Cultural Infrastructure

May 21, 2025
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Abolishing cultural infrastructure and the deregulation of emerging technologies are two sides of the same anti-intellectual coin.

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Book Review: “Leonardo da Vinci — An Untraceable Life”

February 3, 2025
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This book is an anti-biography that argues Leonardo had little interest in autobiographical self-promotion and claims that the many gaps in the historical record prevent him from cohering as a biographical subject

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Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight for the Press — Publishing the Pentagon Papers

November 29, 2013
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As the individual who quite possibly had the best seats in the house for the monumental legal battle that unfolded over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1971, James Goodale provers invaluable morsels of insight and information.

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