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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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Film Review: “Custody” — When Home Isn’t Safe

July 29, 2018
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Viewers who have endured abusive domestic family situations may find their throats swelling, their hearts thudding, and their hands shaking.

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Music Feature: The Tedeschi Trucks Band — Home for the Holidays

December 1, 2019
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The Tedeschi Trucks Band is capping another remarkable year of transition and growth, some of it spurred by tragedy.

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Album Review: Arca — Getting Her KICKS

December 31, 2021
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The Kick album cycle drives home the essence of Arca’s musical vision: constant, relentless transformation.

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Visual Arts Feature: A Walk in the City — Seeing Architectural Details and History in a Time of Covid-19

April 25, 2020
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Ironically, sheltering at home reminds us that walking through some neighborhoods in Boston is an aesthetically enriching experience.

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Opera Album Review: World-Premiere Recording of a Still Deliciously Daffy Italian Comic Opera from 1769

November 30, 2025
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Paisiello, one of the most successful opera composers in Mozart’s day, offers repeated delight and surprises in this entertainment, thanks to a splendid cast of mostly youngish singers.

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Rock Album Review: Phish — Comfortably Optimistic at Home

April 6, 2020
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Sigma Oasis is one of Phish’s better albums since the group reunited in 2009 after a five-year breakup.

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Theater Review: The ART’s Musical “Johnny Baseball” — Safe at Home

June 6, 2010
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Perhaps the inspirational cliches, by-the-numbers storyline, and fan cartoon hijinks are what’s expected in a baseball musical. Johnny Baseball, Music by Robert Reale, Lyrics by Willie Reale, Book by Richard Dresser. Story by Dresser and Reale. Directed by Diane Paulus. Staged by the American Repertory Theater at the Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, through July…

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Jazz Commentary: Three More Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — Stretching the Boundaries of the “Conventional”

October 5, 2023
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These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.

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Film Review: “Crawl” — Home Invasion of the Creepy-Crawlies

July 13, 2019
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This is a perfect guilty pleasure, an old fashioned B-movie without a franchise, explosions, overly recognizable actors, or exhausting mano a mano violence.

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