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Music Feature: From the Pews to the Streets — The Harmonizing Stars of Boston Celebrate 50 years

June 5, 2019
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As a capella singers, they have taken their musical ministry — and its repertoire of 500 songs — to streets, subway stations, picnics, community clean-ups, and anywhere else they might find an audience who appreciated a musical message.

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Jazz Commentary: Pee Wee Russell — A Singular Voice

April 7, 2019
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Despite the fact that clarinet (and occasional sax) player Pee Wee Russell was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz history, his name remains unknown outside of infra jazz circles.

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Film Review: “Casting JonBenet” — Of Crime and Psychodrama

June 3, 2017
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In this attempt to get at the ‘truth,’ the actors don’t play the roles, the roles play the actors.

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Theater Review: Peterborough Players’s “Ripcord” — Arguing for a Full Life

February 17, 2018
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David Lindsay-Abaire’s tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.

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Theater Review: “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” — Still Potent

June 5, 2025
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Overall, this is a satisfying production of a turn-of-the-century play that still underlines enduring economic inequity.

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Opera Album Review: In a New Recording, Faust Is Damned Again — Early-Modernist Style

May 9, 2025
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Ferruccio Busoni’s century-old (or -young) Doktor Faust, inspired by Christopher Marlowe and other pre-Goethe sources, offers a fascinatingly hellish ride.

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Book Review: “Trieste” — A Vivid and Lurid Chronicle of Horrors

February 19, 2014
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As fiction, “Trieste” is almost entirely a dense tapestry of thinking, remembering, agonizing and raging.

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Theater Review: “Sweat” — Icarus’s Children

February 12, 2020
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For me, Sweat hits its riveting stride in its second half, when the pressures of the strike tests the relationships of its working class characters.

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Visual Arts Review: “Chasing Rembrandt” — The Hunt Continues?

May 11, 2023
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Chasing Rembrandt is a small show, probably quickly assembled to complement the TheaterWorks production. For curious viewers, though, it raises a number of provocative questions.

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Film Festival Reviews: Sundance Fest 3 — Ukrainian War, Alabama Prisons and Assisted Suicide

February 13, 2025
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Films can transform the way that their subjects are seen, sometimes by just making a subject visible. That was the case with three films which were among the best that I saw at Sundance this year.

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