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Songs sometime climax with Nicky Schrire improvising in a pure tone way up in her top register, like a bird darting on an updraft.
Read MoreBy Ken George View Gallery BOSTON, Mass.—John Ashcroft once had statuary at the Justice Department clad in thousands of dollars worth of drapery. An unruly aluminum breast had apparently unnerved the then attorney general, an assiduously religious man. Chalk it up to residual Puritanism, the ascendancy of the religious right, political correctness run amok or…
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As an example of historical revisionism, The Commune proffers a valuable representation of the cultural, political, and class dynamics that animated the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Read MoreDespite the neglect from the local media, the Boston blues scene is strong.
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This is an all-English album whose strongest moments are mighty and who’s most intriguing piece is a revelation.
Read MoreIn the mesmerizing “The Last White Knight,” documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman chronicles a five-year dialogue with the man who assaulted him during the civil rights movement.
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Eschewing ostensible flash and musical sleight of hand, Without Deception is a treat for connoisseurs.
Read Moreby Bill Marx Who would have guessed that a writer who proudly earned the reputation as the Oscar the Grouch of contemporary literature would have so many loving fans? But there were few empty seats two nights ago at New York’s Austrian Cultural Forum, which hosted a PEN panel, proudly entitled “The Art of Failure,”…
Read MoreBy Harvey Blume Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi scheme have become symbols of fraud, greed and dull-witted naiveté, of lax oversight, slobbering credulity, and rank criminality — the whole slew of failings and circumstances that have beggared Wall St. and deflated the global economy. Damien Hirst is less known. He’s no billionaire swindler, merely a…
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Theater Commentary: The Irrelevance of ‘Relevant’ Theater
Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.
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