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Film Review: “Fire Music: A History of the Free Jazz Revolution” — Informative but Incomplete

August 19, 2021
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What’s on the screen rings true, but Fire Music falls short of being fair to history.

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Visual Arts Review: “Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth” — Overwhelming the Clichés

September 3, 2023
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Edvard Munch was very far from a one-hit wonder. His career was a long narrative of restless creativity.

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Jazz Album Review: What “Data Lords” Says About the Remarkable Career of Maria Schneider

August 9, 2020
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“The sun and everything in this world is there waiting for us—patiently and loyally. To feel its power, we just need to make the choice to get up, go out, look up and connect to its magnificence.” That is really, truly, there in the music.

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Book Review: “Disputing Disaster” — A Fascinating Look at the Search for the Origins of World War I

November 4, 2024
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In tracing the tortuous path that established historians took in trying to get to the bottom of the war, Perry Anderson doesn’t acknowledge leftwing observers who knew perfectly well what was going on at the time.

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Literary Appreciation: “The Passion for the Thing” — An Argument for Writer Harry Crews

May 2, 2016
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The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.

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

January 28, 2024
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Our expert 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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Coming Attractions: March 2 through 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

March 2, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Concert Review: Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival — Satisfaction for All

July 2, 2024
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Despite several great sets including Jason Isbell and Iris DeMent, Wilco stole its own show at Solid Sound with conceptual aplomb.

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Judicial Review # 8: Making Sense of the “Assassins”

May 8, 2012
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What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our eighth session, a discussion about the Boston University College of Fine Arts production of the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical Assassins, which looks at the lives and sensibilities of men and women who attempted (successfully or otherwise) to kill the President of the United States.

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Concert Review: The Flamin’ Groovies—A Half-Century in the Trenches of Coolness

November 27, 2015
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The Flamin’ Groovies in a nutshell — doubling as a rock institution and the best party band in town.

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