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Book Review: Bringing Nathaniel Hawthorne Home

February 18, 2013
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Unlike fellow apostate (and friend) Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne didn’t have the chutzpah to be a proto-existentialist — for him, it was better to cling to questionable moral pieties than plummet into sheer nothingness.

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Film Review: “Patriots Day” — So Close to Home

January 20, 2017
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Patriots Day provides an intimate view of a heart-stopping week.

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Theater Review: Matt & Ben — Nobody’s Home

July 14, 2011
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In his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman argues that American culture is becoming dumber and dumber—plays like Matt & Ben suggest that we have entered the afterlife. Matt & Ben by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers. Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara. At the Central Square Theater, 450 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, through August…

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Country Album Review: Billy Strings’s “Renewal” — Bluegrass’s Brightest New Star

September 24, 2021
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This is an amazing follow-up to Billy Strings’s Grammy-winning Home album.

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Dance Review: BB@home — Trainees’ Playground

February 4, 2018
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The show, organized by associate director of BB II Peter Stark, was built to show off the talents and challenge the performing chops of the young dancers.

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Theater Review: A Fabulous “Fun Home”

October 29, 2018
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The SpeakEasy Stage production is intimate and emotionally satisfying, highlighting the musical’s strengths — its sharply witty book, memorable songs, and heartbreaking characters.

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Television Review: “Frayed” — Going Home, Yet Again

August 7, 2020
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Frayed is an Australian/British comedy, and its refreshing sense of gallows humor draws on the pessimism in both cultures.

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Music Interview: Tish Hinojosa on Coming Home

November 3, 2016
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“Being an independent musician is kind of like having an organic farm.”

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Book Review: “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss” — A Brave and Heartrending Story

March 15, 2022
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This is a profoundly disturbing memoir about a subject that hits close to home for many readers.

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Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Impeachment Edition — Stir-Crazy 14

January 14, 2021
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Celebrate impeachment in your home with this critic’s fourteenth list of movies guaranteed to entertain.

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