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Classical Music Review/Commentary: BSO / Pianist Kirill Gerstein – Whose America?

July 20, 2015
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The BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.

Author Interview: Suspense Stories With a Twist — Writer George Harrar

January 29, 2013
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George Harrar is not really a mystery or suspense writer, per se. His work is noir and tension-filled, but there is a philosophical and psychological sub-strata that’s more reminiscent of Kafka than Robert Parker.

Music Interview: Kristin Hersh — Making the Best Music of Her Life

December 14, 2016
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“There should never have been the cult of the rock star. That just shouldn’t have happened.”

Book Review: “Inside Knowledge” — Prison as Manufactories of Pain

January 2, 2024
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Prison doesn’t “fail” so much as it succeeds at missions nobody in authority wants to acknowledge: punishment, humiliation, and separation from the community beyond the walls

Fuse Flash: Revving up Cultural Tourism

April 13, 2008
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By Bill Marx “Boston is adrift in the brave new competition among big American cities vying for tourist dollars.” Maureen Dezell, WBUR Maureen made that charge back in July 2006 in an article that turned out to be one of the last posts on the late WBUR Arts Online. Now that the quote, along with…

Music Review: The de-Stones’d New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 50th Anniversary

May 3, 2019
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“Forgiveness is the key and love is the answer… Have a good Jazz Fest, but also have a good life.”

The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: A Profusion of Geniuses

January 6, 2023
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This is the 17th annual edition of the Francis Davis Jazz Poll, finally named for its founder and guiding light. The Poll collates top-ten lists from 151 jazz critics and journalists, and as such provides a wealth of insight into and data about this past year in jazz.

Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Four, “Farewell”

August 21, 2022
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“Farewell” is the shortest album in the series, but it is perhaps the most provocative in the way it calmly muses, philosophically, on the form that togetherness can take – as it exists and as it dissolves.

Theater Review: A.R. Gurney’s “Love and Money” — Aging White Bread Blues

September 3, 2015
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Love and Money is a short play, lengthened beyond one-act duration by stuffing a Cole Porter interlude into its middle.’

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