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Music Interview: Good News — The Wailin’ Jennys Are Back

March 22, 2022
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All three are singer/songwriters whose individual gifts mesh seamlessly with soaring harmonies and a like-minded empathetic view of the world.

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Coming Attractions in Film: February 2013

January 30, 2013
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February is a rich month for film-lovers, filled with screenings of alternative movies and film festivals. There are classics, documentaries, genre films, science fiction, appearances by filmmakers, and cinema from around the world.

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Film Review: “Sorry, Baby” — A Tragicomic Vision of Coping with Trauma

July 3, 2025
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In a film that maintains a deft, tightrope balance of tone, writer-director-star Eva Victor has delivered an acerbically funny depiction of how we learn to cope in a world where bad things can (and often do) happen.

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Film Review: “Parasite” — Notes from the Underclass Underground

October 18, 2019
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Parasite’s powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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Film Review: “The Wedding Plan” — Is Jewish Orthodoxy Really a Woman’s World?

May 28, 2017
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This time that we’re getting a too-sweetened take on Hasidism, and maybe of Jewish Orthodoxy in all of its manifestations.

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Classical Music Sampler: March 2010

February 27, 2010
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By Caldwell Titcomb March 2: The Contemporary Music Ensemble in residence at Boston University, Alea III, under the direction of Theodore Antoniou, offers a free concert in celebration of the late eminent composer/teacher/conductor Lukas Foss (1922–2009). Works by Foss to be performed are “Echoi,” “For Toru,” “Elegy for Anne Frank,” “For Aaron,” “The Prairie,” and…

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World Books Review: “The Twin” — Isolation Made Compelling

April 26, 2009
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A brilliant Dutch novel that explores the connections to the disconnected. The Twin By Gerbrand Bakker Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Archipelago Books, 343 pages. Reviewed by Tommy Wallach It isn’t easy to write a compelling novel about loneliness, for the simple reason that loneliness is boring. It makes for something of a…

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Book Review: Nashville Songwriter Aimee Mayo is “Talking to the Sky”

February 3, 2021
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Nashville songwriter Aimee Mayo’s memoir offers an eye-opening perspective on the problematic treatment of women in the country music industry.

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Coming Attractions: October 8 through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 8, 2023
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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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Book Review: “Nagasaki”‘s Diptych of Aloneness

December 29, 2014
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The success of this short novel set in Japan lies in the empathy it creates for a pair of ordinary and lonely characters.

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