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Musician’s Interview: Barry Burns of Mogwai Talks About Stoking “The Bad Fire”

April 8, 2025
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Mogwai’s explosive sound has inspired numerous bands around the world, including in the Boston area. 

Classical CD Review: A Superb Version of Leonard Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place”

July 13, 2018
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Garth Edwin Sunderland’s new chamber adaptation of this opera’s score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year’s best and most important recording.

Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates

February 16, 2020
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Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.

Jazz Concert Review: BANN’s Likely Stories

February 4, 2011
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There’s something special going on among the four musicians in BANN that is very promising—something that makes me want to see the band live. I hope one of our local bookers picks up on them soon, so I don’t have to go to New York City to do so. As You Like by BANN [Seamus…

Theater Review: “The Humans” — Americans in Limbo

March 16, 2018
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In The Humans, Stephen Karam suggests that America can be a heaven that, in a moment, might flip into hell.

Cultural Commentary: Cryptocurrency and Artists, A Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?

November 6, 2025
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Our financial establishment is being hijacked in a car driven by a greedy, vengeful man, his industry cronies and a doormat Congress cowering meekly in the back seat.

Theater Review: “The Taming” — Entertaining Satire

July 22, 2018
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Hub Theatre Company’s production of The Taming is engaging, thanks in no small part to the hilarious performances of its three lead actors.

Theater Review: “The Atheist” — A Pint-Sized Heart of Darkness

September 15, 2007
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By Bill Marx The Atheist by Ronan Noone. Staged by the Huntington Theatre Company at the Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, through September 30, 2007. Machiavellian monsters aren’t what they used to be in the theater. The gloriously godless creeps that memorably rampage their way through the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Shaw and Brecht scale the dizzying…

Opera Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project Sheds New Light on “Frederick Douglass”

June 25, 2025
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Played and sung with verve in its New England premiere, “Frederick Douglass” stands as the most significant revival BMOP has undertaken in recent years.

Book Review: “The Chapo Guide to Revolution” — Laughing at Catastrophe

August 31, 2018
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Too many cultural critics look at our past through a fuzzy filter of sentiment. Chapo Trap House tackles America’s past and present idiocies head-on in a refreshingly honest way.

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