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Theater Review: “The Grove” — Nurturing Ancestral Connections

February 23, 2025
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Revelatory reunions are a standard dramatic setup, which explains why it takes quite a while for “The Grove” to gather some theatrical steam.

Fuse Theater Review: “O.P.C.” — Thinking Outside of the Prada Box

December 9, 2014
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If the fate of life on earth comes down to mother and daughter bonding over a racy passage in Anaïs Nin, then he whales should just call it a day.

Theater Preview: Rescuing — and Reimagining — the Sarajevo Haggadah

March 18, 2014
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It was not the first time the Sarajevo Haggadah had benefited from Muslim protection: during the Nazi occupation, another librarian had spirited the Hebrew manuscript out of danger and hidden it in a local mosque.

Film Review: “Nosferatu” — Stay for a Bite

December 22, 2024
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Director Robert Eggers’ take on the venerable vampire is a little too buttoned-up, too clean, too refined.

Arts Commentary: Meditations on Separation

September 20, 2020
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This is what I feel can add: the perspective of a native-born son of the Rochester metro; and a view from the bridge through jazz-colored glasses.

Theater Review: Viva “Wittenberg” at Peterborough Players

September 1, 2017
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Davalos’s fast-paced wittiness and director Keith Stevens’ deft management of dramatist’s words and dramatic action keep us in stitches.

Doc Talk: Fascism Then and Now — At the Arlington International Film Festival

November 1, 2023
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A pair of documentaries featured in this year’s Arlington International Film Festival take a cold look at the death cult of fascism — past, present, and to come.

YouTube Commentary: “李子柒 Liziqi” — Nature and Internet Celebrity in the Time of the Coronavirus

February 4, 2020
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Not only do Lǐ Zǐqī’s videos offer us the satisfaction of seeing material labor, but they also suggest the impossibility — in the modern world — of genuinely recreating the work of the past.

Jazz Commentary: Greg Hopkins Big Band at Ryles — Whither Big Bands?

June 20, 2018
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At this time in the Boston jazz scene, there are no ongoing spaces for big bands and, predictably, the number of such ensembles has shrunk.

Film Reviews: DocTalk at the Independent Film Festival of Boston — Bands of Outsiders

May 1, 2024
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Documentaries celebrating communities shine at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.

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