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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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Country Music Album Review: Molly Tuttle’s “City of Gold” — A Glittering Triumph

July 21, 2023
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These young musicians clearly embrace their roots, but there is no denying that this is a forward-looking troupe, one that flashes no pretensions as it blows your mind.

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Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #2 — In the Flesh

January 23, 2022
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My second Sundance dispatch deals with abortion, torture and cannibalism: what a scintillating combination for a bitterly cold weekend!

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Film Review: Jafar Panahi’s “Closed Curtain” — Another Valiant Film From Iran

August 15, 2014
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Under relaxed house arrest, Iranian director Jafar Panahi bravely concedes that, at times during his incarceration, he’s worn down, tempted to end it all.

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Visual Arts Review: Artist Paul Klee — Philosophical Thinker?

November 10, 2012
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The enduring aspect of Paul Klee’s art is its playfulness, which bubbles up even out of this viscous curatorial treatment.

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