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Music Preview: Circles Around the Sun — Celebrating Legacies

February 25, 2020
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Circles Around the Sun has established a distinctive niche within the expanding universe of “Grateful Dead as genre,” appealing to the core audience for Dead music without having to pull songs from the group’s songbook.

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The Collective Stupidity: Economics as Fiction

March 22, 2008
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By Peter Walsh “But the trouble continued to spread over the country, and there were reports of big concerns, and even banks, in trouble.” — Upton Sinclair, Oil! (1927) No doubt there are still those who think economics is a dull, plodding technical field, akin to accounting, which pale men in green eyeshades practice somewhere…

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Film Review: “Microbe and Gasoline” — Michel Gondry’s Coming of Age Charmer

July 22, 2016
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The performances by Ange Dargent and Théophile Baquet could not be better.

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Theater Review: New Rep’s “Good” — Disturbing rather than Devastating

October 15, 2016
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The New Rep production is polished, surprising, and certainly hard-hitting.

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Music Review: A Festive “Christmas Revels” Filled with Irish Wisdom and Humor

December 17, 2012
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The merry mood, welcoming atmospherics, and cultural richness of this year’s Irish “Christmas Revels” make it the perfect family event.

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Book Review: Dancer Ray Bolger — America’s Animated Cubist

April 13, 2019
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Via Ray Bolger’s trajectory we traverse the boards of Broadway and the silver screen of Hollywood — as well as the smaller, but equally thrilling, milieux of nightclubs and television studios.

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Book Review: “My Stupid Intentions” — The Heartbreaking Bildungsroman of a Beech Marten

June 13, 2023
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The fox knows many things in My Stupid Intentions. The beech marten just one.

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Book Review: Bill Griffith’s Indelible “Invisible Ink”

November 20, 2015
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Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead, dives deep into his personal life in his extraordinary new graphic memoir.

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January Short Fuses – Materia Critica

January 8, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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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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