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Jazz Album Review: Big Bands, Ian Charleton and Schapiro17

March 21, 2021
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Two big bands, two different sides of the tradition.

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Theater Review: “The Undoing of Prudencia Hart” — Lost in Spaciness

January 21, 2020
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Unfortunately, no improvements to the staging will clarify dramatist David Greig’s muddled storyline.

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Classical Music Review: The Sound of Blue Heron — Pleasure Aplenty

December 24, 2012
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Several merits distinguish Blue Heron’s concerts, the most salient being the always-gorgeous singing of this pre-eminent Renaissance vocal choir.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

August 7, 2025
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The week’s poem: Mark Scroggins’s “Zion Offramp 124”

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Theater Review: “Leopoldstadt” — Bearing Witness

September 23, 2024
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“Leopoldstadt” is one of Tom Stoppard’s most heartfelt and expansive works, its poignant storyline inspired by events in his own life.

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Arts Commentary: We Will Have to Eat Our Spinach — And Like It

January 17, 2023
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Given that the Climate Emergency will grow more challenging over time, we (including literary novelists) shouldn’t be so cavalier about not eating our spinach.

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Film Review: “Downton Abbey” — Revisiting Past Glory

September 24, 2019
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Why has Downton Abbey, the film and the series, been so successful? We are given a romanticized vision of essential ‘Britishness,’ a nostalgic version of the class system.

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Book Interview: Jim Vrabel Explores Boston’s History from the Grassroots Perspective

September 28, 2014
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A People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the “New Boston.”

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Music Interview: 60’s Sunshine Pop Pioneer Bruce Arnold “Finds the Time” for Orpheus

February 12, 2014
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“We pushed the pause button a while ago…..now we have pushed the play button. The big difference is that we have 220 years of combined professional experience between us this time out.”

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Book Review: “Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest”

September 20, 2018
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K.K. Downing does not trash Judas Priest or its legacy, but he gives, from his perspective, an honest and believable assessment of the group and his role in it.

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