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Theater Review: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “Much Ado” — “A Giddy Thing”

July 29, 2022
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Shakespeare’s text has been streamlined for easy consumption on a summer’s evening — there’s no intermission, lots of physical comedy, and a party vibe.

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Music Preview: Guitarist Jimmy Herring — Seeking the Simple Root

September 20, 2019
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Veteran guitarist Jimmy Herring and the 5 of 7 play groove-heavy tunes that barrel into unexpected and interesting places.

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Theater Review: Flat Earth Theatre Bugs Out

July 30, 2011
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In BUG, a deranged veteran fights for his “freedom” against phantoms in a hermetically sealed echo chamber that he is willing to blow up for the good of mankind. As The Tea Party would have it: Either change the government or shut it down.

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Film Review: Shudder’s “Host” — Solitary and Scary

August 19, 2020
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It’s entertainment genius to turn our new normal into something topical and terrifying.

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Film Review: “The Lodge” — The Horror of Indoors

February 25, 2020
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The Lodge suggests that our money, social privilege, and carefully-crafted stability are not enough to keep the wolves from the door, or to protect us from the dangers that lurk indoors.

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Book Review: The “Three Lives” of Stefan Zweig

May 19, 2012
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Stefan Zweig’s was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek’s biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.

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Rock Review: The Music Never Stopped

September 13, 2005
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With the arrival of a new biography and DVD, guitarist Jimi Hendrix may have finally gotten his due, the pieces of his puzzle finally assembled, with just enough mystery left over for the ages. “Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix” by Charles R. Cross. (Hyperion); “Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock [The Deluxe…

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Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead

April 28, 2019
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This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.

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Visual Arts Feature: Spotlight on Scaasi — Revisiting an American Couturier

November 19, 2010
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This exhibit is ideal for the budding designer to come and admire dresses with structured tulle, unique hems, bias cut silk, pounds of beads, sequins, and rhinestones, weaved organza and mink accents. Scaasi: American Couturier at the Loring Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA until June 19, 2011. By Megan Trombino It…

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Theater Review: Fresh Ink’s “The Housekeeper” Keeps Things Neat

January 22, 2016
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The Housekeeper may be too conventional for its own good, but it is intelligently crafted and engagingly entertaining.

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