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Film Review: The Ventures and The Shadows — Guitar-Driven Instrumental Bands Get the Documentary Treatment

May 13, 2021
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A pair of documentaries about the most popular guitar-driven instrumental bands of all time.

Watch Closely: New Year, New Format, New TV

January 17, 2023
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I’m going to try out a new format in 2023. Along with posting longer reviews of single series, I will also be experimenting with a new (weekly!) format where I include several features in one column.

Coming Attractions: February 2 through 17 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 2, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Theater Review: “Unknown Soldier” — A Musical About the Power of Memory

August 5, 2015
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One of Unknown Soldier’s powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.

Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in Stride

November 30, 2021
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Take a dive into any of Alain Mabanckou’s works in English — and definitely score a copy of the new translation, As Long As Trees Take Root In the Earth, beautifully crafted and bound. Vive la Poesie!

Short Fuse: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Applies the Corrective

August 13, 2009
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By Harvey Blume In an interview I did with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1997 (for the now defunct “Boston Book Review”), we talked, naturally enough, about the issue of race in America, and about Gates’s sense of mission, as scholar and writer, in relationship to it. One thing in particular that he said sheds…

Rock Album Review: The Plastic Ono Band Celebrates 50 — A Nice Warm Cup of Instant Karma

September 16, 2021
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After having diagnosed the ails of modernity, screamed out his most deeply held traumas, and shrugged off his role in the biggest band ever, John Lennon is content to have a riverside cuddle under a tree in the sun with the woman he loves. Amen.

Arts Commentary: Creative Cross-Pollination — HarborArts Expands the Power of Public Art

June 4, 2024
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Over the last 15 years, HarborArts has effectively used public art to raise public awareness, stimulating dialogue about environmental concerns — the climate crisis and degradation of the sea.

Fuse TV Review: “Fargo” Season Two—Viscid, Vivid, and Nearly Perfect

October 17, 2015
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If the first episode is any indication, season two of FX’s Fargo is going to be an almost pitch-perfect sophomore effort.

Film Review: “Jumbo” — Love with the Proper Object

February 27, 2021
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Jumbo is one of the most magically affecting and visually enthralling romances I’ve seen in quite some time

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