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Concert Preview/Interview: Suzanne Vega

December 4, 2022
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Suzanne Vega is many things: a singer/songwriter, musician, poet, author, entrepreneur, playwright, and actress. A number of her personas are converging right now.

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Film Review: “Son of the South” — The Civil Rights Movement, Served on Wonder Bread

February 4, 2021
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What we need is to see the world through the eyes of Black activists, even though that might be frightening to White audiences reluctant to deal with the unmediated truth.

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Author Interview: “An Accident of Hope” — Analyzing the Psychotherapy of Anne Sexton

April 19, 2012
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“An Accident of Hope” is a fascinating read for anyone interested in writers, writing, psychotherapy, women, medical ethics and American society just before the great upheaval of the 1960s.

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Film Review: At the Boston Underground Film Festival — “Knife+Heart” and “Mope”

April 2, 2019
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My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.

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NYC Theater Reviews: “Stereophonic” and “Babe” — The Music Business Onstage

December 12, 2024
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Both Stereophonic and Babemake compelling drama out of the volatile world of pop music-making.

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Book Review: Rock and Roll Fantasy — Getting the Balance Right

October 11, 2021
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On many levels, Hold Me Down is terrific. Its power lies in the vitality of Clea Simon’s prose and her insider savvy.

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Book Review: Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ Memoir of Surviving the Nazi Death Camps

December 23, 2015
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In contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.

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Poetry Review: Two Chapbooks from Anton Yakovlev — Urban Alienation, Perfectly Pitched

January 7, 2016
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Yakovlev’s poems speak to the reader quietly, with assumed familiarity.

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Book Review: “Becoming a Man” — The Roller-Coaster of Transition

January 28, 2020
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I would have preferred a more reflective, in-depth account of becoming a man in 2020, but Becoming A Man is an informative, fast, and fascinating read.

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Dance Review: Crackling Out The Blues

July 28, 2013
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This is Michelle Dorrance’s break out year, or perhaps more accurately the year people outside the intimate tap community got to know her by sight and reputation.

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