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Book Review: “The Idea of Prison Abolition” — An Unconvincing Case

November 15, 2022
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The Idea of Prison Abolition is a worthwhile book, but Dr. Shelby’s case, philosophically strong as it might be, is not very likely to convince prison abolitionists.

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Concert Review: Europa Galante — Baroque Music Aficionados Take Note

October 12, 2022
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Europa Galante is small enough to make touring financially viable, yet large enough to successfully undertake “larger” works in a variety of venues.

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Theater Review: “The Colored Museum” — Raucous, Riveting, But Out of Sync

March 15, 2015
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George C. Wolfe’s 1986 collection of vignettes that spoof and celebrate black stereotypes occasionally plays like reruns from the ’90s TV show In Living Color.

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For the Love of Arts Criticism II: Arts Magazines and Bloggers Speak Out

April 6, 2018
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We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.

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Dance Review: “Diary of a Tap Dancer” — Say Their Names

December 29, 2024
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Is it possible to reclaim a marginalized legacy? And how do you step up to take a seat at the table when your history has been neglected and forgotten?

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Classical CD Reviews: Gerald Finzi’s Orchestral Music, Bernstein’s “Wonderful Town,” and Arvo Pärt’s “Works for Violin”

October 9, 2018
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Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year’s most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.

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Concert Review: Expecting the Unexpected — Brian Wilson Delights at Boston’s Blue Hills Bank Pavilion

July 3, 2015
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This was probably the loudest, rockingest Brian Wilson show I’ve ever seen.

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Theatre Review: These “Woods” Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep

May 22, 2014
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The Lyric Stage Company’s thoroughly enjoyable production more than does “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim’s un-Disneyfied version of fairy tales, justice.

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Book Review: “Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz” — Prominent from the Start

February 25, 2020
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Perhaps the book’s most impressive accomplishment is to make a kind of systematic case for Leonard Bernstein’s larger compositional output.

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Film Review: Two “Gialli” Gems from 1972 — “All the Colors of the Dark” and “The Case of the Bloody Iris”

June 19, 2022
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All the Colors of the Dark and The Case of the Bloody Iris are underrated giallo gems worth seeking out, representing not only the best of the genre, but sex symbol Edwige Fenech’s onscreen magnetism at its strongest.

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