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Film Review: “White Noise: Inside the Racist Right” — Planting the Seeds

October 23, 2020
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White Noise is neither a polemic nor an exercise in agitprop: it is a journey into the dark center of a reprehensible movement that is growing more vocal every day.

Theater Review: “Nina Simone: Four Women” — Theater of Social Concern

February 27, 2020
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There’s much to admire and appreciate about this MRT production; but the play’s lack of a solid dramatic spine is a crippling problem.

Book Review: Why Jazz? How Now?

January 31, 2011
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People who love jazz should read jazz history books periodically, and Kevin Whitehead, jazz critic on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, has done a great service in giving us a What, Who, Where, and When book with insight and ingenuity.

Book Review: “Love, Madness & Scandal” — Among the Metaphysicals

October 12, 2017
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The biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 26

September 26, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 28

September 28, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Film Review: “Conclave” — Autumn of the Patriarchy

October 23, 2024
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Calling out papal bull in the twisty, provocative, and subversive “Conclave”.

Book Review: Jack Kerouac in Mexico — Fiction Dressed as Fact

November 13, 2014
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Reading this book is like listening to a lively conversation from a self-proclaimed Kerouac authority giving his opinions over a café con leche late at night at Cafe Pamplona in Harvard Square.

Film Review: At the IFFBoston — “Best and Most Beautiful Things”

April 29, 2016
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Garrett Zevgetis’s multi-dimensional documentary about the struggles of Michelle Smith, legally blind and diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, is hardly predictable.

Film Review: “Steve Jobs”—Computer Crash

October 27, 2015
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Steve Jobs is a one-dimensional film about a terminally self-absorbed character.

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