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Cultural Commentary: Time for Arts Groups, Large and Small, to Display Some Bona Fide Irreverence

June 25, 2025
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The question before arts organizations and companies is the same one that looms over the rest of us: will they—can they—act before it’s too late?

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Book Review: A Progressive Manifesto — “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream”

May 4, 2023
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Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.

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Film Review: “Pearl” — A Star is Born

September 26, 2022
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Move over Patrick Bateman, there’s a new axe-wielding psychopath for impressionable young cinephiles to project themselves onto in town.

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Rock Album Review: “Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal” — A Winning Tribute

November 14, 2021
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The artists on this expansive tribute frequent different genres, but they find ways into these songs that play to their respective strengths while also deftly showcasing the underlying sturdiness of Neal Casal’s material.

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Film Review: “Terraferma” — From Italy With the Best of Intentions

September 5, 2013
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Terraferma is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Spooky Season Has Barely Begun

October 29, 2021
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Here are some wonderful offerings to get you through the gloomy months ahead, including under-sung and under-seen horror baubles that you may have missed.

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Arts Feature: Best Music Documentaries of 2021 — and Some Disappointments

December 26, 2021
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This list consists of recent music documentaries that I streamed over the past year — a couple of duds as well as the standouts.

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Film Review: Not Enough Joy in Director Chris Marker’s “Le Joli Mai”

December 6, 2013
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“Le Joli Mai” is serious and sober, a bit of a downer, climaxing in a lengthy interview with a dullard union official about why he supports the French Communist Party.

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Book Commentary: Together Again — C.K. Stead and Janet Frame

September 3, 2008
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Another neglected master from New Zealand — writer C.K. Stead by Bill Marx I just noticed that a week before Janet Frame’s previously unpublished story “Gorse is not People” appeared in “The New Yorker” the magazine published a poem by another fine New Zealand author, C.K. Stead. He not only knew Frame at the time…

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Film Review: Boston MFA French Film Festival — “Party Girl,” Gray Panther Division

July 23, 2015
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Party Girl has won a plethora of festival awards, including two at Cannes in 2014.

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