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Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Impeachment Trial Edition — Stir-Crazy 15

January 29, 2021
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As we wait for our vaccine shots, here’s some superior films that will make standing by more pleasurable.

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Theater Review: “The Odyssey” — From a Woman’s Point of View

February 27, 2025
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A lot goes on in an epic — three acts over three hours with two intermissions — and there’s boatloads for Kate Hamill to dramatize and for the audience to digest.

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Bluegrass Album Review: “Dad/And/Me” — Billy Strings Sings of Things Past

November 21, 2022
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Billy Strings injects some contemporary vibes into Me/And/Dad, but this is first and foremost a back-to-the-roots album.

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Book Review: “The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon” — A New Chapter in the American Story?

August 7, 2022
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What a cruel hoax: the middle class suburban lifestyle, a proud achievement of postwar America and the envy of peoples throughout the world (in no small part due to Mad Men glamorization), contains the very seeds of our demise. If demise is where this is heading.

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Coming Attractions in Film: March 2010

March 2, 2010
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By Justin Marble March 2–4: “Children of Invention” at the Brattle: Young filmmaker Tze Chun’s first feature was shot on location in Boston and focuses on a single mother with two small children struggling to make ends meet. When she doesn’t return home one night from her con-artist-esque job, it falls to the older brother…

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Doc Talk: 2023’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival — Inviting Outrage and Action

June 8, 2023
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Reasons to be outraged and hopeful at this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

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Film Review: “The Sweet East” — Indifference as Self-Preservation?

January 25, 2024
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“The Sweet East” is politically tame, though it is often entertaining, particularly when it depicts some distinctly American anxieties.

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Music Review: Pokey LaFarge’s “Rock Bottom Rhapsody” — To Hell and Back with That Wholesome Midwestern Troubadour

April 22, 2020
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In Rock Bottom Rhapsody, Pokey LaFarge shows us where all America’s prophetic manias must lead: collapse.

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Opera Review: “HER | alive.un.dead” — The Sacrifices We Make in the Name of Love

May 20, 2023
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HER | alive.un.dead proves that some stories are best told by trusting the audience’s imagination.

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Visual Arts Review: The Wright Stuff — A Pair of Usonian Houses in Manchester, New Hampshire

June 4, 2022
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The Currier Art Museum now owns and maintains two houses created by legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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