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Jazz Album Reviews: A Trio of Organ Trios Who Pull Out All the Stops

March 14, 2024
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Here’s a trio of organ trios from a new generation of players indebted, but not chained, to the classic jazz format and style that has been dominant since Jimmy Smith in the ’60s.

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Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

June 23, 2014
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Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

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Culture Vulture: Reading Jung’s “Red Book,” Conclusion

November 23, 2009
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Whether you’re a Jungian or a Freudian, think Jung was a genius or charlatan, or even if you’re someone who’s never given much thought to psychotherapy, the exhibition on the “The Red Book” at New York City’s Rubin Museum of Art (which runs through February 15) is worth a visit. THE RED BOOK by C.G.…

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The Food Muse: Clink. And Clink again.

November 1, 2009
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The tall multi-paned windows at Clink. look on to fall colors or the night, the river outside. The style is inviting, informal, and the food is elegant, the taste as good as it gets. Let’s clink to that. By Sally Steinberg Where in America is there a Filipino chef using Spanish arrope (candied pumpkin, for…

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Book Review: “The Heart of a Woman” — The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, America’s First Important Black Woman Composer

July 13, 2020
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It wasn’t until 2009 that a trove of Florence B. Price scores was discovered in a dilapidated house in down-state Illinois and a revival of interest in this most remarkable of composers began in earnest.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: July 31 through August 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 31, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Arts Commentary: Remembering the Culture Wars of the ’90s

December 8, 2022
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Freedom of expression is a more precious commodity than taste. Conservative critics were very clear about their moral imperative; they confidently vilified artists and terrorized institutions. No one won the culture wars — we lost them.

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Film Reviews: Shorts at the 2023 Independent Film Festival Boston — Some Tasty Morsels

April 27, 2023
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A rundown of three narrative programs and one documentary program. We just might see these directors’ names on future IFFBoston features.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Philip Guston and the Impossibility of Art Criticism

May 3, 2022
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While it’s too soon to call it timeless, the vitality in Philip Guston’s art has proved durable. But the structure around it – the “art world” in its blinkered, stultified form, institutional and academic in the worst senses of those words – has died and encased it.

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Arts Feature: Music That Sustained Us Through the Year of the Pandemic

December 15, 2020
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With concerts all but wiped off the calendar by the pandemic, our critics naturally spent their time with recordings (and virtual live shows).

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