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Visual Arts/Book Review: “Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Travel Albums” — Upper Class Gilded Age Tourism

April 14, 2023
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Faced with the dual dilemmas of the opacity of the albums themselves and the now painfully obvious narrative of colonialism, wealth, and white privilege, some of Fellow Wanderer’s authors dodge into more easily researched side issues.

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Book Review: “Normporn” — Yearning for the Impossible Middle

November 7, 2023
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The cultural critic’s wrestling with the compromises that the pleasures of mass culture inevitably demand is heartfelt. In a word, it’s normal.

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Film Review: “Parasite” — Notes from the Underclass Underground

October 18, 2019
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Parasite’s powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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Visual Arts Review: “Toulouse Lautrec and the Stars of Paris”

April 15, 2019
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This crowd-pleaser of an exhibition, dedicated to an accessible, beloved artist, is a gift to the citizens of Boston and Everett, as well as to the general public.

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Fuse Book Review: “Sweetbitter” — Stale Flavour Du Jour

June 6, 2016
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In no way does Sweetbitter succeed in doing what you are led to expect of it: to frame the post-9/11 zeitgeist.

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Jazz CD Preview and Survey: Years of Utter Beauty, Part 1

January 20, 2019
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2018 saw the release of four ambitious and powerful jazz releases driven by poetic texts.

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Film Feature: Best Music Documentaries of 2022

December 31, 2022
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2022 in music documentaries: Ten worth streaming, plus a disappointment.

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Author Interview: Stephen Vladeck on the Troubling Rise of the Shadow Docket at the Supreme Court

July 3, 2023
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A conversation with author Stephen Vladeck who has been called out publicly by Justice Samuel Alito for his criticism of the Supreme Court’s abuse of the shadow docket.

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Classical Music Interview: Amelia LeClair of Cappella Clausura — Conductor and Detective

April 3, 2013
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“Once people hear this music they do indeed come back for it – it is pleasing on so many levels: it soars, it soothes, it excites, it transports.”

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Film Review: “Bottoms” — A Surreal High School Lesbian Sex Farce

August 25, 2023
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The horndog plot of this wild comedy: two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation

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