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Arts Commentary: Do Boston’s Mayoral Candidates Support the Arts? Who Knows? — An Update

August 28, 2013
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Those who champion the arts need to realize that talk is cheap — we have to fight to get a place at the political table.

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Book Review: Celebrating “The Flowers of War”

March 5, 2012
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A strange mix of characters who all have complicated pasts gives rise to a novel that blossoms — exactly as a flower does — into a complex drama that includes several points of view and a wide range of emotions.

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Warning: Outsider Art

August 15, 2005
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An increasingly popular movement in the visual arts prides itself on picturing everything that is the raw, untutored, and irrational.

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Short Fuse Podcast #26 — Live Music and Talk with Student Musicians Aaron Halford and Matty Michna

April 3, 2020
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Musicians Aaron Halford and Matty Michna describe their journeys to Boston and ponders their futures beyond The Hub.

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Classical Album Review: The Complete Dunbar/Moore Sessions

September 8, 2025
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Baritone Will Liverman is emerging as a musician with a capital “M,” one whose thoroughgoing approach to the craft is singularly illuminating, inviting, and affecting.

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Film Review: “Let Them All Talk” — Angst of Many Flavors

December 30, 2020
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The film feels amateurish in the most complimentary Stendhalien sense: created in a spirit of play, rather than a sweaty effort to advance a studio agenda.

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Theater Review: “Much Ado” About Something New

May 2, 2018
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Shining leads make up for a problem play that, in this production, has been further problematized.

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Theater Review: “Finding Neverland” — A Lucrative Broadway Fantasy in Progress

August 15, 2014
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The $3 million American Repertory Theater version of Finding Neverland remains a work in progress, a “tryout” as it has been dubbed, and it feels just like that.

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Graphic Novel Review: No One Wins — Gene Luen Yang’s “Boxers & Saints”

October 23, 2013
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Although Gene Yang envisions a similarity between the Boxers (once transformed into their mythological hero aspects) and modern superheroes, BOXERS & SAINTS is far from a simple good vs. evil slugfest.

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Visual Arts Review: “Cities Here and There” — Various Visions of Urbanity

March 12, 2024
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This exhibit at the Brickbottom Gallery does a good job of capturing the unexpected moments and surprises that we experience in a city.

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