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Book Review: Homage to Scott Miller — Perceptive Attention Paid to a Lost Pop Genius

August 28, 2016
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Brett Milano approaches his subject with encyclopedic knowledge, a fan’s fervor, and the seasoned music journalist’s skill.

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Book Review: Antoine Volodine’s “Bardo or Not Bardo” — Seriously Spoofing the Afterlife

April 21, 2016
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One reads this strangely engaging book, like Volodine’s others, with a sort of knitted-brow amusement.

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Theater Review: A “Coriolanus” Cut Down to Size on the Boston Common

August 4, 2012
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Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” deals with the difficultly of recognizing superiority at a time of radical social breakdown, specifically when it is democracy that is in extremis.

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Rock Concert Review: Steve Miller Band with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives

July 27, 2019
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The most accurate name for this summer’s Steve Miller/Marty Stuart tour would be “When Two Music Geeks Collide.”

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Music Interview: Dogs, Sheep, Pigs, and Kangaroos with The Australian Pink Floyd Show’s Jason Sawford

November 1, 2011
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Not only is TAPFS considered the best Pink Floyd tribute band, but it is argued that they are the best cover band in the world.

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Visual Arts Review: Great Gallery Shows for Free in NYC – Picasso and Kentridge

June 13, 2025
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Two art exhibitions in New York should be seen multiple times. Each will deepen your appreciation of a great artist. Neither is mobbed with visitors. Each, in this wildly overpriced city, is absolutely free.

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Theater Review: “A Doll’s House” — Middling Ibsen

January 17, 2017
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This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.

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Music Review/Commentary: Gunther Schuller’s Gift of Giving – Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival III

December 5, 2011
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Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is his third installment, which focuses on Gunther Schuller, who has inspired at least four generations of artists and revitalized a venerable institution of higher musical learning.

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Theater Review: “Berlin …” — Polymorphous Perversity

April 30, 2018
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The script is symptomatic of the Trump era: a passionate rejection of the “politically correct” pushes warriors for “freedom,” as well as voices of radicalism, into morally despicable positions.

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Film Interview: A Brief Conversation with Filmmaker Peter Flynn

April 7, 2016
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The Dying of the Light looks at the history of film projection by way of the projectionists themselves.

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