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Book Review: Books about Rock n’ Roll — Some Rock, Some Don’t

January 23, 2016
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The success of Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, has meant an uptick in the number of new rock n’ roll books hitting the racks.

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Film Review: “Shin Kamen Rider,” “Shin Ultraman,” and Hideaki Anno’s Philosophical Superheroes

June 26, 2023
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As The Flash crashes at the box office and audiences grow tired of multiverse sagas, creative mastermind Hideaki Anno has delivered two badly needed breaths of fresh air to a genre suffocating under the weight of its own cultural stagnancy.

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Book Review: The Fiction of Norway’s Per Petterson — The Early Bonds That Bind

May 19, 2015
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I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.

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Theater Review: “Pacific Overtures” — A Civilization on the Brink of Change

June 10, 2019
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Pacific Overtures offers a history lesson — but it is an entertaining, moving, thought-provoking, and timely one.

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Concert Review: Martha Argerich and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at Symphony Hall

October 24, 2017
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Far more impressive than pianist Martha Argerich’s impeccable mechanical abilities are her interpretive chops. Here, she’s truly in a league of her own.

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Film Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” — The Blues of Existence

September 5, 2020
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You may not know what you’re feeling or what to think about what you’ve seen afterward. This is a rare experience in cinema to be savored, or at the very least highly valued.

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Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

September 30, 2011
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It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 4, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Theater Review: “The Voysey Inheritance” — A Masterpiece About Fraud, Capitalism, and Family

August 21, 2014
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The Voysey Inheritance comes to the Peterborough Players with distinction, and this production is persuasive evidence that it belongs in a wider repertory of contemporary theater.

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Theater Review: A Superb Staging of “This Is Our Youth” — A Perceptive Vision of American Muddle

August 20, 2013
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In this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.

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