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Television Review: “Back to the Frontier” — Living La Vida Antiqua

July 14, 2025
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Watching a historic reality show now takes on a different meaning than it did 20 years ago. Today, our reliance on technology borders on nightmare Ray Bradbury territory, so modern-day folks trying to survive on the frontier looks like an impossibility.

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Classical Album Reviews: “Americascapes 2” & “Playfair Sonatas”

December 14, 2024
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Conductor Robert Treviño celebrates what we might call the dawning of the North American vernacular school; composer Ethan Iverson displays a fascination with instrumental color.

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Musician Interview: Blueswoman Ally Venable joins the “Experience Hendrix’

March 21, 2025
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“When I think about blues music, I think about the musicians that came before me and what they had to say, all of those amazing guitar players. They were really playing a form of protest music.”

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Film Preview: Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival 2023

February 15, 2023
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This is the event’s 48th year, making the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival the longest running genre festival in the country.

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Visual Arts Review: “Ways to Baffle the Wind” — Exploring Humanity and Nature at Mass MoCA

January 29, 2022
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Yto Barrada’s intent in this show is not to warn about environmental catastrophe so much as to explore where culture and the natural world meet.

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Film Review: Levon Helm — An Appreciation of The Man from Turkey Scratch

September 3, 2013
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Musician Levon Helm’s folksy ideas about life, the anecdotes he shares, his reverence for American music and for the friends and comrades who gather around him, are inspirational.

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Book Review: “The Hanging Garden” — A Posthumous Gift from a Literary Giant

August 4, 2013
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This novella is a gift to all of us who love Patrick White’s strangely alive prose and a welcome addition to his oeuvre. And for those who don’t know his work, it is a terrific way to be introduced to one of the 20th century’s finest writers.

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Film Review: Freud Never Asked What Men Want, “The Climb” Tells Us

November 8, 2020
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The terrific The Climb looks at bro-bonding in a way you’ve never quite seen.

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Music Review: Providence Art-Pop Trio Arc Iris stretches its wings in “iTMRW”

January 28, 2020
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So, after three original albums (plus a re-imagining of Joni Mitchell’s Blue) that fell short of wide acclaim, perhaps it was only a matter of time for them to think big.

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Theater Review: ASP Conjures Up A Congenial “Tempest”

December 14, 2016
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All in all, Allyn Burrows has assembled a solidly entertaining production of a perennial Shakespearean favorite for the winter season.

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