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Book Review: “The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World” — Forever Out of Reach

November 7, 2022
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Paul Fisher’s back-and-forth tease about John Singer Sargent’s sexuality starts out as intriguing, then becomes distracting, and finally irritating as the biographer never quite closes in on his targets.

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Food Muse: A WRAP FOR A RAJ — Scenes From The Life Of The Dosa

June 13, 2011
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In India, dosas are cooked on a griddle in the street, as well as in restaurants and homes. As street food goes, the dosa gets high marks. It’s not junk, and it tastes great. The Dosa Factory in Central Square, subtitled “Indian Street Food,” is a hole-in-the-wall–not for an evening of food and talk. But that’s not what street food is. It’s a quick fix, and for these purposes, it’s about as good as it gets.

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Children’s Book Reviews: The Natural World and Beyond

October 30, 2025
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Three beautiful new picture books for kids about nature, color, and gardening will inspire, inform, and delight.

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Coming Attractions: October 26 Through November 10 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 26, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Film Review: “It Comes at Night” — A Prepper’s Handbook of Hope and Dread

June 12, 2017
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This is a fine exercise in arthouse horror — don’t expect elaborate monsters, an orchestral score, or CGI effects.

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June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

June 2, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Film Review: Maine International Film Festival — Off and Running with “Eisenstein”

July 12, 2015
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Eisenstein in Guanajuato is another major achievement from the iconoclastic British director Peter Greenaway.

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Theater Commentary: Is a Five-Year-Old Tony Kushner Play Too Challenging For Boston?

December 20, 2014
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The only Boston-based companies that have the means to stage an epic on this scale will shy away from the content while those adventurous enough to handle its iconoclasm lack the means.

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Classical Album Review: “On Christmas Night” — A Sublime Choral Escape from Holiday Clichés

November 30, 2025
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On Christmas Night is a welcome alternative to the inescapable flood of tiresome holiday songs currently assaulting us from radios and shopping mall sound systems.

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November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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