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Film Review: Tongues Are Untied in “Kneecap”

July 30, 2024
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A frenetic, funny, foul-mouthed, and sometimes facile testament to the fact that language matters.

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Film Review: “Botticelli’s Primavera” — One of the Great Picture-Puzzles of the Italian Renaissance

March 10, 2025
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The stunning painting is beautifully presented in this documentary, but the flood of references to other works of art and quotations from classical and Renaissance writers might make the film a bit slow going for someone with no background at all in Renaissance cultural history.

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Special Feature: Quotes for the New Year

January 1, 2024
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A few quotes for the New Year that will sting or sustain.

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Music Preview: Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade — Turning the Prosaic into the Psychedelic

June 25, 2023
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Bass-wielding provocateur Les Claypool is an expert at warping the seemingly conventional into carnivalesque oddity.

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Classical Concert Review: New England Conservatory Philharmonia’s “Making Choices”

November 5, 2021
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May the Boston Symphony – which just concluded its annual weekend celebrating the music of Black composers by shunting them off on their own, away from Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Beethoven, and Friends – take note: this is how it should be done.

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Classical Album Reviews: “Dance With Me” and “Eden”

March 20, 2022
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Marvelously accomplished albums from American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan.

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Jazz Album Review: “In Common III” — Adventures of an All-Star Rhythm Section

March 5, 2022
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With their shifting textures and compositional variety, the relatively short pieces show the ways — in this case mostly gentle and lyrical — five musicians can fruitfully interact.

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Theater Review: “Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven” — Conversation as an Act of Healing

June 20, 2019
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Written more than a decade ago, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven falls all too painfully closely in line with current events.

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Poetry Review: “Peaches Goes It Alone” — A Comic Ode to the Age of Trump

March 6, 2019
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In the age of truthiness, poet Frederick Seidel’s is a welcome voice.

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Fuse Film Review: “In the Shadow of Women” — Stuck In the Shades of Depression

March 15, 2016
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In the Shadow of Women is obviously meant to be a throwback/homage to the French New Wave cinema of the early to mid-1960s.

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