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Arts Remembrance: Jack Kerouac at 100 — A Conversation with John Sampas

March 7, 2022
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Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 17. A 2014 conversation about the writer with his literary executor, the late John Sampas.

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Film Review: “A Quiet Passion” — A Personal View of Emily Dickinson

April 25, 2017
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Cynthia Nixon is a great Emily Dickinson, so deeply angry, so heartbreaking in her fool’s life of stoic suffering.

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Film Review: “Miss Juneteenth” — Hope Is Heart-wrenching

June 20, 2020
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There is a gemlike quality to this film: an emotional, earthbound portrayal of the lived experience of a black woman — fighting to make ends meet, retaining her integrity despite repeated indignities.

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Film Review: “Gagarine” — Everything Is Falling But the Sky

April 3, 2022
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If you’ve never seen a French film with a PG feel, the well-meaning Gagarine might be the one for you.

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Classical CD Reviews: Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto, Project W

May 20, 2019
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Arguably, the strongest entry in the BSO’s complete Shostakovich symphony cycle thus far; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2016 Cello Concerto is emotionally direct and, at times, simply gorgeous; the resurgence of interest in the music of Boston-educated composer Florence Price is a good thing.

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Film Review: “The Revenant” — Where Have You Gone, Sam Peckinpah?

January 9, 2016
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The implausibility of The Revenant is jaw-dropping.

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Theater Review: “Buyer & Cellar”—In Barbra Streisand’s Enchanted Village

December 8, 2015
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This one-man comic extravaganza about the dizzying spell of celebrity is a welcome respite from the annual bombardment of holiday joyrides.

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Arts Remembrance: Galway Kinnell — “The Cadence of Vanishing”

November 1, 2014
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Galway Kinnell served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and penned a number of poems, which often took the form of pastoral ramblings, that celebrated his appreciation of the rural life.

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Film Review: “At the Devil’s Door” — Satan Never Naps

September 18, 2014
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The highest praise for the way the great cinematographer Bridger Nielson has lit the film’s haunted house..

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Dance Review: “The Just and the Blind” — Shackled, Humiliated, Scared

April 3, 2022
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The Just and the Blind sends a needed and powerful message — it is 2022, we need to wake up!

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