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Concert Review: Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival — Satisfaction for All

July 2, 2024
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Despite several great sets including Jason Isbell and Iris DeMent, Wilco stole its own show at Solid Sound with conceptual aplomb.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 11

December 11, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Film Review: The Amy Winehouse Documentary — Hagiography in the Age of Reality TV

July 14, 2015
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Amy Winehouse’s death was certainly a tragedy, but not one that moves us to pity and terror in its retelling as a morality tale spun from home movies.

Jazz Album Reviews: Dave Brubeck x 2

December 31, 2020
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Two from Dave Brubeck: Time Outtakes, the alternate tracks for the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s classic 1959 album Time Out is very good to have; Lullabies is filled with the intimate sound of the pianist’s old age, tender affection, and distilled musical wisdom.

Book Review: Putting Words into Dreams — Poet May Swenson

November 5, 2025
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Optimistic, a canny survivor, relentless, genderfluid—poet May Swenson described herself as “I am one of those to whom miracles happen.”

Food Feature: Somerville — Chocolate Capital of Massachusetts?

April 24, 2018
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Somerville’s Union Square hosts four chocolate companies, in renovated warehouses.

Commentary/Review: Book Critics — “Fire the Bastards!” or Judging the Judges

August 20, 2012
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“New York Times” Book Critic Dwight Garner makes salient points about the need for incisive criticism, claiming that too much happy talk denies common sense and undercuts credibility. But the ‘gonzo’ masterwork “Fire the Bastards!” hammers the point home much more memorably.

Music Festival Review: The Newport Jazz Festival at 70 — Bridging Generations and Styles

August 7, 2024
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Despite the charges of some purists, jazz was alive in the hands of a few veterans at Newport Jazz 2024, as well as newcomers sharing their own voices in the tradition.

Book Review: “The Shelf”‘s Splendid Ambition — to Burst Open the Literary Canon

July 23, 2014
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Like me, Phyllis Rose frets about the zillion fine books out there that nobody bothers with. Why their neglect? She reasons that it’s because no one pedigreed has championed them.

Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

August 3, 2013
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“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

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