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TV/DVD Review: The Complete “Hill Street Blues” — A Groundbreaking Cop Show Untarnished by Time

May 2, 2014
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The complete “Hill Street Blues” is a godsend for those eager to venture beyond “Law and Order” and “CSI” dynasties.

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Film Review: The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival — A Very Good Year

January 8, 2014
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An annual gathering of superb new animation from around the world. This year’s standouts include “Oh Willy…” from Belgium and “Virtuoso Virtual” from Germany.

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Music Feature: Hot Tuna — No Time for Nostalgia

November 26, 2017
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“The acoustic duo shows are on the edge. It’s stripped pretty naked. It’s as if we were just playing in your living room.”

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Music Review: Boston Pops Salutes Our Heroes

May 20, 2010
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Reviewed By Caldwell Titcomb The Boston Pops, celebrating its 125th anniversary, is devoting its third week of programs (May 18-22) to “American Heroes”—both living and dead. The most newsworthy feature is a new cantata entitled “The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers.” Pops conductor Keith Lockhart addressed brief remarks to the audience…

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Classical CD Review: A Vibrantly Harrowing “Bluebeard’s Castle”

April 30, 2021
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If this is your first Bluebeard’s Castle, Susanna Mälkki’s recording makes for a fine, occasionally inspired, introduction.

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Concert Review: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock at Symphony Hall

April 15, 2015
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Given that these two virtuoso pianists were in a jubilant, hometown mood, this was a concert that could hardly fail to please.

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Television Review: A Rousing Documentary on the Liberal Gusto of Ann Richards

April 28, 2014
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This fine, partisan documentary resurrects Ann Richards, and it’s showing on HBO in a Lone Star election year. The Republicans better worry about Texans seeing it.

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DVD Review: The Decision on “Admission” — The Waiting List

July 7, 2013
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The film “Admission” resembles many of the rejected college applicants it portrays: likeable and clever, with a good story and the best of intentions, but not quite Ivy League material.

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Theater Review: A Shining City on the Yawning Heights

March 22, 2008
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By Bill Marx Shining City, by Conor McPherson. Directed by Robert Falls. Presented by the Huntington Theatre Company, through April 6 at the Boston University Theatre. John Judd and Jay Whittaker gas on about a pesky ghost At their best, ghost stories frolic in the freedom of the imagination: the writer generates his or her…

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Film Review: The Soulful Comic Legacy of John Belushi

October 20, 2020
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Belushi is a warts-and-all look at one of comedy’s raging bulls.

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