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Book Review: Why Listening to Community Voices Could Help Revive Local News

August 7, 2020
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If a new generation of community news organizations is to grow and thrive, then we need a renewed sense of civic engagement. And in order to foster that civic engagement, we need journalism that doesn’t just report the news but also listens and collaborates.

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Theater Review: “Hurricane Diane” — A Whimper Rather than a Whirlwind

September 4, 2021
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Madeleine George’s uneven 90-minte one-act comedy/drama borrows heavily on Greek mythology to zip up the misadventures of a cluster of suburban women in New Jersey,

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Theater Review: “The Bluest Eye” — Pieces of a Classic

February 5, 2022
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Dramatist Lydia R. Diamond makes an honorable effort to adapt Toni Morrison’s novel to the stage, but with mixed results.

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Performance Art Review: A Powerful “Stain” on the Boston Common

March 29, 2018
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Those who stopped at the top of the Boston Common, at about 1 p.m., witnessed an extraordinary work of performance art.

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Classical Music Review: Emanuel Ax

January 13, 2010
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By Caldwell Titcomb Jordan Hall in Boston was filled to capacity for the January 8 Celebrity Series recital by pianist Emanuel Ax. Now 60 years old, he has long harbored a reputation as a serious and thoughtful musician.

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Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive

September 30, 2022
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Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.

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Book Review: “Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend”

November 2, 2017
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De Stefano tracks the evolution of a cabinet-maker’s daughter into a famously bombastic, chain-smoking political reporter and author.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Severance” — All Work and No Life

April 17, 2022
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Without letter-perfect performances from the actors I’m not sure Severance would work anywhere near as well as it does.

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Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra — A Searing Rendition of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”

November 11, 2013
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In sum, this was one of those rare concerts in which everything clicked, musically and dramatically.

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Classical Concert Review: Radius Ensemble — A Vivid Musical Journey, Filled with Solace and Grandeur

November 5, 2022
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The stormy exuberance of Debussy’s Piano Trio in G major inspired one of the many highlights of this mostly auspicious night.

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