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Book Review: “This is Hip” — The Trials and Tribulations of Jazz Singer Mark Murphy

March 22, 2018
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Jazz singer Mark Murphy was just too much for most audiences during that period; too intense, too varied, too unpredictable.

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Film Review: Listening to Voices from the “Underground” — Once Again

March 5, 2015
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Underground director Emile de Antonio saw films as “a way to make art out of political raw material.”

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Film Review: “Tickled” — It’s Funny Until it Happens to You

June 24, 2016
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I can’t quite believe I’m cautioning viewers about the troubling nature of a documentary about tickling.

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Fuse Interview: Boston native Lydia Peelle wins 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award

October 28, 2010
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The Whiting Award winner’s short story collection is made up of tales filled with a gentle lyricism as well as a clear-eyed concern for characters stuck in “survival mode,” men and women, sheep farmers and taxidermists, who are scraping by, past their prime, or morally lost. By Bill Marx. Born in Boston and raised in…

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Rethinking the Repertoire #13 – Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto

May 31, 2017
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Samuel Barber: one of the most individual and distinguished voices to emerge in Europe or America during the 20th century.

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Television Review: “Howard” — Homage to One of the Greatest Artists of the 20th Century

August 19, 2020
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The great lyricist behind the Disney renaissance receives a moving tribute.

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Stage Feature: TW Festival’s David Kaplan on Beyond Success — Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams

September 17, 2016
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Once Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams achieved success, they wanted to take on themes in their plays that challenged audiences.

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Television Review: Netflix’s “Beef” – Don’t Tread on Me

April 16, 2023
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Beef‘s reflection on today’s growing outrage and extremism reveals a lot about class and inequality.

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Visual Arts Review: An Indelible Sense of Vermont — The Photographs of Nathan Benn

February 4, 2015
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Nathan Benn’s gorgeous color photographs paint a complex vision of Vermont as a place of constancy and change.

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Film Review: Toxicity Roulette — 1969, 2020, and “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

October 23, 2020
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In the end, The Trial of the Chicago 7 strikes a reasonable balance between historical document and cinematic art.

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