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Fuse Concert Review: Mudcrutch — Tom Petty Escapes Superstardom

June 18, 2016
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Count among Tom Petty’s many talents the ability to trade his superstar role for that of being just another member of the band.

Fuse Commentary: WGBH’s Radio Theater of the Absurd

June 22, 2012
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WGBH is exploring an interesting question — how little can you invest in arts coverage and still have the chutzpah to ask for money from supporters who mistake crumbs for a loaf?

Theater Review: A Musical “Moby-Dick” Lumbers from its Seabed at the A.R.T.

December 20, 2019
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Dave Malloy’s musical version of Moby-Dick shows promise, but he needs to trim plenty of blubber.

Theater Review: All’s Well, I Guess — Girl Gets Boy, Boy Ditches Girl, Girl Gets Boy Back

July 5, 2011
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The likable Commonwealth Shakespeare Company staging leans very heavily on the comedy in ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, minimizing the Bard’s melancholic undertow.

Theater Review: “Metamorphoses” — Everybody in the Pool

October 9, 2025
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The Berkshire Theatre Group production of “Metamorphoses” is consistently engaging and, at times, deeply powerful.

Book Review: “No Is Not Enough” — Damned by Branding

July 30, 2017
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Naomi Klein argues that the more anxious we are, the more vulnerable we are to politically opportunistic manipulation.

1971 Project Film Commentary: “The Andromeda Strain” — Science Is the Enemy?

May 1, 2021
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The Andromeda Strain’s anti-intellectualism is rooted in Cold War paranoia: a distrust of science, of academia, and of the press.

Book Review: Haruki Murakami — Marathon Storyteller

November 27, 2011
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In his dozen or so works of international best-selling fiction, Haruki Murakami has created an alternate-reality Japan that is at once magical and familiar, dangerous and comfortable, foreign but Westernized.

Book Review: Karl Kraus’s Prophetic “Third Walpurgis Night” — Listening to the Music of an Ocean of Mud

November 13, 2020
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“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus

Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog — On the Hunt for the Ecstatic Truth

September 4, 2020
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This thoughtful study offers a worthwhile critical perspective on Werner Herzog, one of the world’s great living film artists.

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