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Film Review: The Ottawa Animation Shorts Festival

February 2, 2012
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I recommend keeping an eye out for this and other animation shows at local, independent theaters and museums. You will be dazzled and amazed.

Visual Arts Review: Indelible Chinese Shadows

December 3, 2012
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Cut out of translucent and colored ox or donkey hide (sorry, PETA), they are foot and a half tall, two-dimensional figures operated by rods set up behind a slightly canted screen.

Concert Review and Commentary: Music Worcester’s The Complete Bach & In Memoriam, Richard Dyer

September 23, 2024
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Music Worcester’s ambitious project, which will involve multiple Boston-area music groups, is slated to run the next eleven seasons. The goal will be to present every note the great man wrote. And a homage to the late Richard Dyer, the chief classical music critic of “The Boston Globe” for three decades.

Album Review: Maine’s Kioea — Reviving the Sound of Surf Guitar

May 8, 2022
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With summer coming, this progressive surf combo’s new recording promises to make an ideal soundtrack for the season.

Opera Preview: “Scalia/Ginsburg” — Mining (and Minding) the Political Gap

October 2, 2018
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Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.

Arts Remembrance: Soul Iconoclast Roy C

September 17, 2020
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Roy C may not have lived to see the current regime toppled or his litigation over past royalties resolved to his satisfaction, but he died knowing that he was — without a doubt — a Black American original.

Music Interview: Rench Explains the Shuffle and Flow of Gangstagrass

July 12, 2017
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What unites country and hip-hop? An outlaw narrative.

Visual Arts Review: “Cities Here and There” — Various Visions of Urbanity

March 12, 2024
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This exhibit at the Brickbottom Gallery does a good job of capturing the unexpected moments and surprises that we experience in a city.

Book Review: Kat Meads’s “These Particular Women” — Celebrating Women Who Misbehave

April 14, 2023
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Poet, essayist, and novelist Kat Meads puts readers in the presence of women whose lives were often “spectacularly awry.”

Music Review: New Releases of November 2019

December 23, 2019
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Five tunes that will make it impossible to have a Blue Christmas.

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