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Book Review: “From a Distant Relation” — Drowning in Yiddish

January 24, 2022
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What is evident throughout these superb tales of turn-of-century shtetl life is their authenticity.

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Visual Arts Review: The ICA’s Watershed Points to How We Got Here

August 20, 2019
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Purple is an ambitious, over-the-top endeavor, which feels completely appropriate, given the calamity at hand.

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Book Review: “Hope in the Dark” — An Homage to Community

February 2, 2017
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Now, more than ever, It’s worth being reminded of our natural potential for good.

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Theater Review: “Out of Sterno” — Absurd to the Point of Distraction

July 4, 2015
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Out of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.

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Classical Concert Review: Winsor Music Chamber Series at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

April 18, 2014
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Praise is due Peggy Pearson and Winsor Music for providing a forum for the talented young composer Lev Mamuya.

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Film Review: “A Fantastic Woman” — The Struggle to Be

February 25, 2018
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Lelio’s latest film explores the plight of a woman whose intrinsic nature and self-worth are rejected by a world that doesn’t value her.

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Classical Concert Review: BMOP celebrates Joan Tower

February 13, 2018
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Above all, Joan Tower’s music doesn’t waste your time.

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Culture Vulture at the Gropius House

August 8, 2009
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Visiting the Frelinghuysen Morris House in Lenox got me thinking about modernist architecture in the eastern part of Massachusetts where Walter Gropius landed as part of the great exodus of “degenerate” artists, scientists, writers and other intellectuals who fled to America from Nazi Germany in the years before the second world war. by Helen Epstein…

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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Ends Well — “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

September 30, 2013
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Over the past five years of Breaking Bad, the chemistry of fate has run its course.

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Concert Review: Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony returns to Symphony Hall

March 16, 2018
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This symphony is the finest synthesis of Leonard Bernstein’s considerable theatrical instincts within a concert framework, idiosyncratic and singular.

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