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Book Review: “Tidal Lock” — Living in a Trauma-Informed Reality

June 27, 2025
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The book is crafted, sentence for sentence, as a seemingly impossibly layered mindscape — rich if not overripe in what must be metaphor, must be symbolism.

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Film Review: “Rumours” — It All Ends with a Whimper

October 21, 2024
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Few other films this year will match the absurd satiric heights of director Guy Maddin’s “Rumours”.

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Classical Music Album Review: Mendelssohn’s Complete Symphonies

May 13, 2024
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The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich recording of Mendelssohn’s Symphonies doesn’t cast the composer as a radical, but the effort highlights the strengths of his music and finds ways to put distinctive interpretive stamps on several of these scores.

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Book Review: “Kills Well With Others” — Another Mission for Aging Female Assassins

March 13, 2025
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Through it all, Deanna Raybourn’s quartet of females rely on the acuity and resourcefulness that has made the author’s other series characters both so memorable and beloved.

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Pop Album Review: Florence + The Machine’s “Dance Fever” – Inside the Artist’s Mind

May 26, 2022
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Dance Fever is one of the few pandemic-themed artworks that doesn’t feel contrived — it is specific about the value of music to the individual and by extension to the community.

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Jazz Album Review: Danilo Pérez featuring The Global Messengers — Projecting Light in a Dark World

March 24, 2022
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This cooperative music is deliberately international in instrumentation and personnel and theme, proffering its own characteristic, and often quite beautiful, mix of sounds.

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Classical Music CD Review: “Bach: Toccatas” — A Harpsichord of Feral Energy

August 14, 2019
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In this extraordinary recording, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani is given a chance to perfectly convey the power of his emotions.

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Classical Music Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Haydn, Turnage, and Elgar

November 3, 2018
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As good an interpreter of large-scale forms as he’s becoming, Andris Nelsons has always been a terrific conductor of new music.

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Concert Review: Grand Harmonie’s March Madness

March 28, 2017
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This invigorating, sometimes unpredictable, Beethoven-heavy program certainly offered its share of athleticism and energy.

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Film Review: Chris Rock’s “Top Five” — Only Funny on the Fringes

December 29, 2014
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Perhaps Top Five is Chris Rock’s penance for doing lucrative-paying voices for the insanely popular Madagascar animation franchise.

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