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Arts Commentary: Conserving Cultural Heritage — the Tangible and the Intangible

August 30, 2018
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Cartagena is a 500-year old urban jewel in the Caribbean. But climate change and rising sea levels threaten its heritage.

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Concert Review: Evgeny Kissin and the Emerson String Quartet — Brilliant

April 26, 2018
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The thought of the Kissin/Emerson collaboration was very intriguing, and I anticipated amazing music making.

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Film Review: “Free Fire” — A Tsunami of Gunshots

April 22, 2017
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While calling this Ben Wheatley’s most violent film may be debatable, Free Fire is absolutely the one most riddled with gunshots.

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Theater Commentary: On “Absence” and the Presence of Understudies

February 27, 2014
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I had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd’s Absence at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

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Book/Film Review: Director Werner Herzog Captures Ferocious Reality

December 16, 2012
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In his book “Ferocious Reality,” Eric Ames offers an insightful, well organized, and readable study of Werner Herzog’s documentary work that explores the director’s earliest films as well as his most recent ones.

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Dance Review: Bereishit Dance Company — Cosmopolitan Grace

July 2, 2016
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Soon-Ho Park’s dancers seem imbued with the casual cosmopolitanism of their peers, but they reflect a deep seriousness in their craft.

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Fuse Television Review: “O.J.: Made in America” — Postmodern “Othello”

July 18, 2016
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The trajectory of O. J. Simpson’s life eventually touched on almost every aspect American society.

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Book Review: A Powerful Remembrance of the Cambodian Genocide — “The Elimination”

March 11, 2013
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Ultimately, “The Elimination” is less a literary effort than an act of witness by both writer and reader.

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Book Review: Thomas Bernhard — A Grouch of Greatness

March 12, 2002
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A biography that examines, with mixed results, the life and work of Thomas Bernhard, an acclaimed Austrian writer and playwright his homeland loved to hate.

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Dance Review: At the Boston Ballet — Ballet as Drama

February 26, 2017
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Like a lot of first efforts by prospective masters, Artifact is loaded with ideas.

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