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Book Review: “Vanishing Monuments” — An Unforgettable Memory Palace

May 18, 2020
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Vanishing Monuments is painstaking, in the literal sense of that compound word: it took enormous pain to make this book. It’s a novel that, for all its organizational strategies, reads with the immediacy of a memoir.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

September 14, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Film Interview: Tempest Storm — “Tempest in a D-Cup”

March 25, 2018
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The filmmaker chose, wisely, to emphasize Tempest Storm’s fortitude and self-determination.

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Jazz Album Review: Fred Hersch and Julian Lage — Gloriously “Free Flying”

September 29, 2013
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One of the remarkable aspects of these duets is that almost nowhere is either player — Fred Hersch or Julian Lage — reduced to mere comping.

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Book Review: Katherine Heiny’s “Games and Rituals” — Charmingly Amusing Stories

May 2, 2023
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Katherine Heiny has a particular talent for opening lines: “Your elderly father has mistaken his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eaten it.”

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Film Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — A Powerful “Bulgarian Rhapsody”

November 6, 2015
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The history lesson embedded in Bulgarian Rhapsody is subtle yet also packs a wallop.

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Opera Review: “Nixon in China” at The Shalin Liu Performance Center

February 14, 2011
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Although its interior says 21st century, the Shalin Liu Performance Center has a homespun, American 19th-century facade that made me think of Mark Twain and the provincial opera houses of the California Gold Rush. Care was taken to reference the original Haskins Building that once housed a clothing store called Madras and the local yacht…

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Rock Album Review: The Beach Boys, “Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions, 1969-1971”

September 8, 2021
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It’s quite clear that the fickle record-buying public really screwed up in the early ’70s; the Beach Boys were on top of their game.

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Film Review: At BUFF-o-WEEN — The “Blood & Flesh” of Al Adamson, King of the Shoestring Budget

October 16, 2019
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“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”

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Theater Review: Reasons to Love the Maly Drama Theatre’s “Three Sisters”

March 4, 2016
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I’m deeply grateful to Arts Emerson for bringing the Maly Drama Theatre to Boston and hope for more.

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