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Arts Commentary: “The Boston Globe” Has Nothing to Worry About …

October 3, 2007
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Who cares how the chairs are arranged or even who sits on them on the deck of the Titanic-“Globe”? As the popularity of online publications and blogs grows, the “Globe”’s tepid cultural coverage has become increasingly superfluous.

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Coming Attractions: April 21 through May 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 21, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Jazz CD Review: Wadada Leo Smith’s “Rosa Parks: Pure Love” — Making History Present

February 18, 2019
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Rosa Parks: Pure Love is a serious, substantial, and long work, alternately harsh and calming, one that I am sure should be seen as well as heard.

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Book Review: Ilan Stavans — Literature as Resistance

October 13, 2018
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Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.

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Theater Reviews: Berkshires Roundup — In Touch With Reality

June 13, 2025
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A trio of companies — Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival — draw on the stage’s power to address our current political emergencies.

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Film Festival Reviews: New Directors/New Films — An Accomplished Trio

April 20, 2025
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Three films that stood out at this year’s annual festival at the Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center.

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New York Film Festival: “Pictures of Ghosts” — Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Phantom Cinema

October 25, 2023
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This thoughtful documentary watches cinemas vanish from a Brazilian city.

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DocTalk: Five Documentaries Probe the Past at The National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Festival

May 7, 2023
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Four features and one short that explore aspects of Jewish history from its impact on the earliest origins of the United States to the ongoing struggles of the state of Israel.

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Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances and Recordings of 2021

December 20, 2021
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Here are a handful of concerts that stand out from the past several months, as well as my favorite albums of 2021 – apparently even a global pandemic can’t stop the surprisingly resilient classical music recording industry.

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Arts Feature: The Lockdown Underground — Discoveries in Isolation

July 26, 2021
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Stuck in a world where regular shopping was rare and live performances extinct, the right path seemed to be the curls and swirls of mentions and references that led to surprising new or little-known artists and fascinating new levels of famous ones.

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