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Theater Review: “Alice” Grows Up in a Musical Wonderland

October 22, 2014
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Andrew Barbato’s play turns the Dormouse, the White Queen, and even the Red Queen (“Off with their heads!”) into nurturing Montessori teachers, concerned with comforting and reassuring an upset Alice.

Book Review: Christopher Plummer Recounts His Life

September 19, 2009
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By Caldwell Titcomb There are those who have proclaimed that Christopher Plummer is the greatest classical actor in North America. There is certainly no gainsaying that he has for some time been in the tiny group at the top of the acting profession. Now as he nears the age of 80 he has brought forth…

Film Review: The Provincetown Film Festival 2013 — A Distinctly Humanist Focus

June 27, 2013
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As for new independent films, producer Christine Vachon noted that each generation requires fresh stories and comparisons with a ‘golden’ age of filmmaking are irrelevant.

Film Review: Frederick Wiseman’s “City Hall” — A Kinder, Gentler Government?

October 30, 2020
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City Hall is a quiet, unsentimental celebration of civility in its many forms.

Book Review: Humanizing Our Youth — “Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age”

May 28, 2022
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Throughout, Gen Z, Explained does its best to help readers relate to its protagonists by placing them in Gen Z’s shoes.

Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID, Part 3 –From Boston with Love (Performances of Haydn, Dello Joio, and Virgil Thomson).

December 22, 2020
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Two new recordings and one much-welcome re-release contain first-rate performances of Haydn’s 1798 “Lord Nelson” Mass, Dello Joio’s opera about Joan of Arc, and Virgil Thomson’s astonishing musical portraits of Alice B. Toklas, Picasso, and others.

Food Feature: Interesting Flavors Galore at the CR[EAT]OR Market

December 8, 2017
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New food companies are innovating in similar ways: bold and intriguing flavor combinations and alcohol.

Classical Music Review: BMOP Revitalizes the Concept of a Concerto Concert

January 29, 2012
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Though there were differences in quality between the compositions in the BMOP concert, all of the pieces fulfilled the primary requirement of a concerto: they showed off the capabilities of the solo instrument in question, often memorably so.

Book Review: Herbert Huncke — The “American Hipster” Who Influenced The Beat Movement

September 11, 2013
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Hilary Holladay’s biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored.

Theater Feature: Enter Israeli Stage

October 20, 2011
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Exciting things are happening in Israeli writing, and it is garnering considerable attention in Europe. But what about theater in Israel? Israeli Stage offers the curious a chance to see what is happening.

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