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Theater Review: “The Mountaintop” — A Room With a View of the Promised Land

September 24, 2025
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The Front Porch Arts Collective’s engaging revival of Katori Hall’s drama comes at a propitious time.

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Music Preview: The Mother of All Reunions — 50 years of Boston Rock, Courtesy of WMBR’s “Pipeline!”

August 14, 2014
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Beginning next month, local venues will be positively overrun with reunion shows representing five decades of Boston bands — without doubt the largest reunion event in the history of the Boston scene.

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Opera Preview: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” — The Opera

November 11, 2016
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“I have always been a fan of horror movies, and I’m sure that was part of the attraction to me.”

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Dance Review: Embraceable — Christopher Wheeldon’s “An American in Paris”

October 28, 2016
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The heart of this theatrical reboot is what it means to go for broke and bet on love, or art, or both.

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Author Interview: Critic Jim Sullivan on 45 Years of Modern Rock Chats & Rants

November 10, 2023
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An interview with veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan, who just dropped “Backstage & Beyond: Volume 2: 45 Years of Modern Rock Chats & Rants” in October.

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Book Review: “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language” — Finding Multitudes of Meaning

March 29, 2022
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To always be listening more and to therefore always be listening differently is of course the very nature of fandom, and to call What’s Good the work of a fan is not a putdown.

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Anonymous Sources: Pollock Matter a Use Too Fair?

September 19, 2007
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Could a longstanding debate over copyright law add yet another dimension to the long-running Pollock Matter Affair? There are signs it might, though the media haven’t yet understood just how broad the implications might be.

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Theater Review: “Paradise Blue” — Hit the High Notes

August 31, 2022
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This dark and jazzy noir drama would be compelling if it just focused on dramatizing a jazz artist’s quest for artistic perfection.

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Book Review: America’s “Great Disorder” — A Saga of Creation and Redemption Followed by Confusion and Rancor

April 7, 2024
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“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.

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Jazz Album Review: Jean-Michel Pilc’s “Alive: Live at Dièse Onze, Montreal” — Flurries of Fascinating Ideas

March 25, 2022
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Jean-Michel Pilc is a talented pianist who expresses his happiness at just being alive via performances that treat the most revered standards in a manner that is wholly personal, even idiosyncratic — yet memorable.

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