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Concert Review: Billy Strings — “A Big Ball in Boston”

November 18, 2021
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Once again, Billy Strings pulled an exhilarating assemblage of musical influences under a big tent.

Television Review: “Ted Lasso” — Its Second Season Scores Big

August 4, 2021
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The sophomore season of the Apple TV + hit comedy is even more winning than its first.

Film Review: “Climax” — Mental Blitzkrieg, Cinematic Version

March 9, 2019
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Climax may be the director’s most fully realized attempt so far to suggest a state of madness onscreen.

Opera Review: The Sparkling Human Comedy of “Don Pasquale”

July 26, 2012
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Under the baton of its Artistic Director, Susan Davenny Wyner, Boston Midsummer Opera has become an annual highlight of Boston’s classical music line-up during the summer.

Theater Review: A “Rocky Horror Show” — Tailored for Gen Z

November 8, 2023
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This “Rocky Horror Show” for the Gen Z set contains (at least potentially) enough flash and zap to successfully put across a new take on a campy cult classic.

Of Madness and Murder

January 10, 2006
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A brilliant new novel explores how the search for his family’s fate during the Holocaust nearly costs a man his sanity. “Götz and Meyer” by David Albahari. Translated from the Serbian by Ellan Elias-Bursac. (Harcourt, 176 pp., $23) By Tess Lewis “We need so little to imagine another world, don’t we?” asks the narrator of…

Classical Music Album Review: Traversing Foreign Landscapes — Lei Liang’s “Dui”

February 13, 2025
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Chinese-American composer Lei Liang’s eclectic collection of ten thematic tracks could pass as a soundtrack to an artistic, surrealist film or an intense, psychological drama.

Poetry Review: “Falsework” — Poems That Leave Room for the Reader’s Echo

October 6, 2024
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Time and again, Alice Fogel’s poems’ subtractions have a purifying effect, showing us a landscape or an architecture we hadn’t guessed was there.

Music Interview: Jay Ungar and Molly Mason — Still Playing Together After All These Years

April 10, 2024
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The renowned duo of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason perform what has been called American Roots music. But they’ve also been known to include traditional folk and ’40s jazz.

Fuse Film Preview: Graham Greene’s “Words in Motion” at the MFA

January 1, 2016
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In his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.

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