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Film Interview: FilmStruck — Streaming Service for Classic Movies Arrives

November 29, 2016
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FilmStruck’s streaming service isn’t just an archive, it’s also an opportunity to reframe and refresh.

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Film Review: “First Cow” — A Bovine Tour de Force

March 13, 2020
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Marvelously acted and directed, First Cow is a masterpiece that dramatizes how struggle and adversity are part of the human comedy.

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Stage Review: A Tangy “Vinegar Tom”

January 15, 2013
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The Whistler in the Dark production does right by the gaunt power of “Vinegar Tom” — if only dramatist Caryl Churchill hadn’t served up such a tidily edifying coven of alleged sorceresses.

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Rock Interview: The Flesh Eaters Redux

March 11, 2019
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The Flesh Eaters have returned with renewed vitality, after it hit some troughs and sputtered to a near stop.

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Theater Review: “Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show” — Look Forward in Anger

November 10, 2017
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Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.

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Film Review: “She Is Conann” — A Sapphic Tragedy Through and For the Ages

February 2, 2024
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Bertrand Mandico’s “She is Conann” left me buzzing, high on a euphoria of aesthetic excess that represents the true legacy of New Queer Cinema.

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Jazz Album Review: The Complete Massey Hall Recordings — The Legendary Concert Never Sounded So Good

January 22, 2024
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I heartily recommend this Craft Recording, even if (perhaps especially if) you have owned the LP version from (almost) a half century ago.

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Opera Album Review: An Award-Winning Recording of Handel’s Most Comical Opera

January 5, 2024
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Mary Bevan, silvery soprano beloved in Boston, enchants anew in one of Handel’s most frequently performed and recorded operas.

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Visual Arts Review: Sampling Outsider Art in New England

March 31, 2024
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Since I live in Boston, and was seeking out the farther reaches of the outsider art world, I was happy to discover three stellar galleries in Massachusetts and Vermont.

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Film Review: “Infinity Pool” — Body Double

February 14, 2023
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There’s still room for Brandon Cronenberg to grow as a horror director, but Infinity Pool should make his father proud. It’s a sensory nightmare of bodily dissociation and high class decadence that signals a promising start to 2023.

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