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Theater Review: “English” — Language Lessons

October 31, 2022
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English makes us consider what it looks like from the other side of our native tongue; from the outside looking in.

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Book Review: Putting Words into Dreams — Poet May Swenson

November 5, 2025
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Optimistic, a canny survivor, relentless, genderfluid—poet May Swenson described herself as “I am one of those to whom miracles happen.”

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Rock Review: The Ego and the Ecstasy of Deerhunter’s “Monomania”

June 5, 2013
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Dramatizing the essence of punk was Bradford Cox’s chief goal while composing “Monomania,” which he describes as a “very avant-garde rock & roll record.”

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Rock Concert Review: Slow and Steady Wins — Widespread Panic’s Triumphant Fenway Run

August 25, 2025
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Playing nearly 60 songs across a trio of near-three-hour shows,  jam-rockers Widespread Panic certainly made their return to Boston count.

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Visual Arts Review: “Doris Salcedo” — Memorializing the Innocent

November 23, 2016
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Doris Salcedo’s mourning for the dead takes material shapes, a menagerie of curious sculptures.

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Jazz Album Review: Richard Nelson and the Makrokosmos Orchestra — Excursions in Noir

February 2, 2024
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Composer/guitarist Richard Nelson’s followers can count on being surprised at how nimbly he can satisfy their appetites.

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Concert Review: Blueswoman Samantha Fish — Promise Galore

December 25, 2019
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While Samantha Fish shines with her guitar work on the new album, she impressed more with her singing live.

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Theater Review: “My Jane” — Not Much New Here

July 2, 2016
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The production, like so many I’ve seen staged by the Chester Theatre Company, makes the most of limited resources.

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Rock Concert Review: The Satisfactions of a Wall of Sound

August 28, 2018
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This smaller setting allowed for more casual ease and intimacy between the audience and the band.

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CD Reviews: Isabelle Faust plays Bartók; Wolfgang Rihm’s Symphonie “Nähe fern”; Tokyo String Quartet plays Dvorak and Smetana; Thea Musgrave’s Chamber Works for Oboe (Harmonia Mundi)

May 29, 2013
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A round-up review of new releases from Harmonia Mundi — an invigorating crop of albums.

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