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Fuse Book Review: “Country of Ash” — Another Essential Holocaust Memoir

January 16, 2014
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We become increasingly aware that we are in the mind of a doctor who has taught himself to observe carefully, who has an amazingly strong will to survive, and who chooses not to waste precious time and energy on anger or revenge.

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Classical Music Commentary: Just How Perilous Is the Life of The Boston Symphony Orchestra?

July 4, 2012
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The overall prognosis for the Boston Symphony Orchestra is good. While there remains room for growth and improvement both artistically and financially, the Orchestra has the advantage of a solid musical reputation and a strong core of patrons who support its mission.

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Theater Review: GSC’s “Think of Me Tuesday’ — Local Heroes

October 5, 2021
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Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly rare for Boston area theater companies to produce shows that are as deeply rooted in our local culture as this one.

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Music Interview: Michael C. Smith on the Boston Caribbean Carnival and How “Culture Lives Here”

August 20, 2019
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Michael C. Smith’s new Boston Carnival photo book proves that “Culture Lives Here.”

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Arts Commentary: What Makes a Critic Tick? Harvard Business School Hasn’t a Clue

May 30, 2012
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I have read the Harvard Business School study about critics and it is clueless on so many levels about the craft and mechanics of reviewing that it is astonishing that major newspapers and magazines have taken it seriously.

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Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust

November 15, 2016
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Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.

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Book Review: All About Art (except the art)

September 10, 2009
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Mostly, Richard Polsky writes entertainingly about the art world in the American vernacular: cash. i sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) by Richard Polsky. other press, 288 pages, $23.95. Reviewed by Peter Walsh “The nature of the art business is that it’s filled with pettiness and jealousy…” complains art dealer Richard Polsky early in his new…

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Book Review: “The Jazzmen” — Three Private and Public Lives, Intertwined

May 12, 2024
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In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.

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Commentary: #MeToo and Dethroning Rock Deities

January 2, 2018
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We have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.

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October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

October 3, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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