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Theater Review: Fine Performances in a Cut-Rate “Camelot”

December 1, 2013
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Benjamin Evett as Arthur and Erica Spyres as Guenevere turn in solid performances, dependable anchors for a cast that does the best that it can in a drab, bargain basement production.

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Film Review: “We Summon the Darkness” — The Evil Eighties

April 17, 2020
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A fun and original slasher/romp that lovingly embraces a number of ’80s horror tropes.

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Book Review: “Cleanness” — Eroticism as a State of Being

May 22, 2020
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The embrace of existential uncertainty in Cleanness enhances the reading experience because it helps us to understand what’s vitally important to the narrator.

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Film Review: “Gimme Danger” — A Fun House Story of The Stooges

November 4, 2016
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The documentary is a highly enjoyable musical and social history of the group and its times.

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Film Review: “Tantura” — Detailing the Dark Side of Israel’s Creation Myth 

January 23, 2022
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With Tantura, brimming with evidence that will now be hard to suppress, director Alon Schwarz may have won an important battle in the war of conflicting narratives about Israel’s war of independence.

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Book Review: “The Turncoat” and “Marrow and Bone” — Two Revealing Looks at World War II

June 12, 2020
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For each of these major, prize-honored writers — Siegfried Lenz and Walter Kempowski– birth = destiny = art.

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Theater Review: Manual Cinema’s “The 4th Witch” — A Hallucinatory Vision of War and Witchcraft

October 31, 2025
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Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.

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Television Review: “The Family” — Ruthlessness and Christian Piety

October 1, 2019
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The documentary sees The Family as really just a huge, secretive, and well-funded lobbying firm: separating church and state is for losers.

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Classical Album Review: Thomas Adès’s Tuneful “Märchentänze”

October 31, 2022
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As the composer moves from youth to middle age, Thomas Adès is unique among his contemporaries for his singular embrace of melody, harmony, and form.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Boston Mural Stirs Controversy

August 18, 2012
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A mural painted on the side of a Big Dig ventilation structure in the Boston’s Financial District has generated enormous controversy.

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