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Film Review: “BlacKkKlansman” — Incendiary Entertainment

August 8, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman is a fiery polemic on America’s long history of bigotry and racism, establishing a through-line that leads to the intolerance of the current president.

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Jazz Week 2015: Roxbury Takes Center Stage

April 24, 2015
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Jazz Week 2015 shines a spotlight on the jazz scene—historic and current—in Boston’s core African American community of Roxbury (and adjoining Mattapan and Dorchester).

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Concert Review: Entrancing and Surprising — Todd Rundgren Goes “Global”

May 8, 2015
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A cursory scan of audience reviews on the Ticketmaster website suggests that Rundgren’s current tour was disappointing his fans on a scale probably not seen in rock music since Bob Dylan went to England in 1966.

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Book Review: “The Sovereign” — Anarchy in Puerto Rico

July 11, 2017
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Given the country’s current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.

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Film Review: “Whiplash” and “Birdman” — Marching to a Different Drummer

October 23, 2014
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Whiplash and Birdman — two of the best films released this year.

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Music Interview: Rob Sheffield on David Bowie

August 2, 2016
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“It might sound a little kooky comparing David Bowie to poet William Butler Yeats, but they had similar pitfalls as artists.”

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Film Review: A Dispatch from the 23rd Annual Boston Underground Film Festival (Part 1 of 2)

March 29, 2023
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Local film festivals like the 23rd annual Boston Underground Film Festival feel like such a balm for the tide of poisonous mediocrity that’s now the standard in our current movie landscape.

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Book Review: “Vladimir” — Sex and Realpolitik in American Academe

August 8, 2022
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This is an entertaining comedy of manners, a sophisticated satire told from the point of view of a feminist professor who is not afraid of committing transgressions in our politically correct age.

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Theater Reviews: Berkshires Roundup — In Touch With Reality

June 13, 2025
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A trio of companies — Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival — draw on the stage’s power to address our current political emergencies.

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Book Interview: Tracy Fessenden, author of “Religion Around Billie Holiday”

May 14, 2018
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“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”

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