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Film Review: “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” — A Harlequin Feminist Manifesto

February 17, 2020
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The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?

Theater Review: Ibsen’s “The Lady From the Sea” — Simplified for Modern Consumption

July 9, 2015
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In this Shaw Festival production we have something all too 21st century: the deliberate dumbing down of a complex play.

Classical CD Reviews: Michael Daugherty’s “This Land Sings,” Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison,” and David Lang’s “prisoner of the state”

October 21, 2020
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A welcome political homage to Woody Guthrie, a new recording of Ethel Smyth’s 1931 choral symphony makes a strong case for a full reconsideration of her output, and David Lang’s rejiggering of Beethoven’s Fidelio is both stirring and timeless.

Book Review: “Dead Men Cast No Shadows” — A Thriller That’s an Act of Political Courage

September 2, 2023
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Dead Men Cast No Shadows is an enormously entertaining novel about responses to perfidy in high places by one of the most prominent writers in the Spanish-speaking world.

Book Review: “Spinning Silver” — Rumplestiltskin, Reimagined

August 13, 2018
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This is a winning book, conveying a strangely believable fantasy about three strong young women in a world not that far removed from our own.

Jazz Review: Montreal Jazz Festival — An Ecosystem That Celebrates Sound

July 10, 2018
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Berber guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar proved that the gifts behind the fingers are still all that matters.

Film Review: “The Lunchbox” — One of the Year’s Best Films

May 12, 2014
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The Lunchbox is that rare film experience that stays with you, makes you think about its multi-layered, subtle performances and storyline, and forces you to see it again.

Culture Vulture: BSO’ s Death-drenched Russian program

October 13, 2009
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By Helen Epstein Oct-8-13 Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich Symphony Hall Boston, MA Vasily Petrenko, conductor Audiences as well as composers project their emotions and fantasies onto every piece of art with which they engage, but I think this is particularly true of instrumental music, whose non-verbal, non-visual yet powerfully emotional expressiveness is as open to…

CULTURE VULTURE IN THE BERKSHIRES

July 20, 2009
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A true embarrassment of riches in the Berkshires this summer, with almost every cultural institution in the county scheduling round-the-clock events and package deals designed to attract even the least culturally interested among us. By Helen Epstein James Levine conducts pianist Leon Fleischer and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood (Photo Credit: Hilary Scott) Last…

Coming Attractions: February 12 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 11, 2023
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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