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Book Review: “The Ocean House” — Infiltrating the Beachheads of Memory

January 7, 2021
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Mary-Beth Hughes’s penetrating glimpses into the depths of her characters’ lives make us more deeply aware of our own.

Book Review: A Critical Look at Barbra Streisand’s Career

June 29, 2019
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Ethan Mordden’s exhaustive take on Barbra Streisand may not be what diehard fans are looking for.

Theater Review: “Cambodian Rock Band” — The Rhythms of Betrayal

October 30, 2019
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At its best, Lauren Yee’s vibrant play with music offers a compelling exploration of survivor guilt, the urge for revenge, the deforming power of the past, and the impossibility of finding justice for crimes against humanity.

Electronic Art Pop Album Review: FKA twigs’ “Caprisongs” — Hypnotic Mixtape

January 31, 2022
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The format may be different, but FKA twigs remains as hypnotic as ever on her album Caprisongs.

Film Review: The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival — A Very Good Year

January 8, 2014
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An annual gathering of superb new animation from around the world. This year’s standouts include “Oh Willy…” from Belgium and “Virtuoso Virtual” from Germany.

Poetry Review: “No Hurry” — Aging Well, In Various Ways

June 10, 2013
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“No Hurry” is a book about aging: the conscious pang of the loss of past intensities, the treasuring of the quieter now, the achingly slow death of sex.

Restaurant Review: Woods Hill Table in West Concord — An Exemplary Farm-to-Table Experience

April 1, 2015
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Woods Hill Table is the 153-seat culmination of a vision that encompasses the locavore movement in impressive fashion.

Rock CD Reviews: A Pair of Golden Codgers

March 7, 2006
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Old timers Ray Davies, an ex-Kink, and Donald Fagen, ex-Steely Dan, have released surprisingly youthful solo albums. “Morph the Cat” (Reprise); “Other People’s Lives” (V2) By James Marcus “Hope I die before I get old,” declared The Who’s Pete Townshend in 1965, and certainly there have been times, during his drink-and-drug-addled middle decades, when he…

Music Interview: Disco Biscuits Redux — “Revolution in Motion”

March 10, 2024
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The Disco Biscuits improvisations are not driven by a guitar-rock root: they are more apt to dive into a piece of classical music and then ease into a propulsive dance-club beat that eventually swerves into Zappa-style brainy grime.

Jazz Festival Review: Memorable Moments From Newport, 2018

August 9, 2018
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One aspect of Newport I treasure is that it shows me, every time, how much I don’t know.

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