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Movie Review: Civil War Crime and Punishment

April 23, 2011
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There is so much that could have gone right for The Conspirator that it seems such a waste that it doesn’t amount to more than it does. It’s a complicated and rich story of Civil War vengeance versus justice with very high stakes on the line. The Conspirator. Directed by Robert Redford. The cast includes…

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Television Review: “Shoresy” — A Spin-off That Falls Short

June 7, 2022
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The Canadian sports comedy Shoresy works as its own series, but it doesn’t match the sharp wit of its predecessor, Letterkenny.

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Concert Review: Television — Still in its Own Orbit After Thirty Years

May 14, 2014
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The band was still Television and often as not, still magnificent.

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Classical CD Reviews: “Barber: An American Romantic” (Conspirare) and “Imogen Holst: Choral Works” (Choir of Clare College, Cambridge)

December 29, 2012
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This recording makes as strong a case for Barber’s unjustly neglected choral music as any: it’s a disc not to miss.

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Movie Review: “Tyson” — Interpretation, Explanation or Sheer Exploitation?

May 4, 2009
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James Toback’s new documentary about boxer Mike Tyson explores a demonic urgency that fattens on the destruction of others. By Harvey Blume At the end of “Tyson,” James Toback’s documentary about him, the ex-heavyweight champ, now 43 years old, breathes heavily and falls silent. He seems talked out, and is certainly, by his own admission,…

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Jazz Preview: The 2014 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

September 22, 2014
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Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the helm again as the artistic director.

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Film Review: “Obra” — A Dark Visual Dynamo from Brazil

March 7, 2015
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The enduring curse of the past is not a new subject; it is Obra’s compelling visuals that make it special.

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Book Review: “Cold Nights of Childhood” — Impossible to Set Aside or Put Out of Mind

May 6, 2024
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What sets “Cold Nights of Childhood “wonderfully apart from today’s autofiction genre is the narrator’s absolute lack of self-pity. There is no blame-game, and no lugubrious victimhood.

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Book Review: The Allman Brothers’ “Brothers and Sisters” — The Album that Defined the 70s?

July 28, 2023
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Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.

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Arts Remembrance: Homage to Dorothy Boudreau — Farewell, My Lovely

March 15, 2021
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Dorothy Boudreau believed in the necessity of culture, and she was as erudite as she was unpretentious.

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