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Doc Talk: The Camden International Film Festival — Location, Location, Location

September 13, 2022
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This year the Camden International Film Festival, which may be the finest documentary film festival in New England, examines the importance of place.

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Design Review: The Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing — An Elegant Addition to the MIT Campus

June 13, 2024
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Political attacks aside, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is a contemporary jewel of a building.

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Watch Closely: On the Couch with “In Treatment” — Stimulatingly Cathartic

July 19, 2021
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The increased racial and cultural diversity of In Treatment’s cast and overall tone are noteworthy and commendable.

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Film Review: “A Reckoning in Boston” — Muckraking and Heartbreaking

May 9, 2021
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A Reckoning in Boston demonstrates that fifty years after the bussing-era failures to improve the lives of Black people, there is, in James Rutenbeck’s telling words, “No justice, no truth, no reconciliation.”

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Jazz Review: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Lights Up the Future of Jazz at Newport 2014 (But Who Will Pay the Bills?)

August 6, 2014
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The jazz of tomorrow is in gifted hands. The future of the music business is more up for grabs.

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Arts Remembrance: Art Critic and Historian Barbara Rose

December 30, 2020
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At a time when ambitious women of any sort were often harshly criticized for pursuing a professional career, Barbara Rose only forged on.

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Film Commentary: This Year’s Venice International Film Festival — From a Judge’s Perch

September 16, 2016
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Who can complain of ten days on the Lido, by the Adriatic Sea?

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Jazz Album Reviews: The Music of Lerner and Loewe — Back in the Jazz Limelight?

October 28, 2019
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The two new Arbors discs are intended to bring Lerner and Loewe back into the jazz mainstream. We will see what happens. But what wonderful music these two groups have produced!

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Concert Reviews: Jazz Journal — An Overview of Recent Live Shows

February 27, 2025
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A Boston jazz critic’s notebook — three shows at Regattabar and one at the Lilypad.

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Film Review: “Eddington” — Grifter Nation

July 11, 2025
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The story’s surprising degree of feeling for Joaquin Phoenix ‘s Joe saves “Eddington” from simply serving as fodder for overheated social media discourse and crusading op-eds.

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