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Jazz Album Reviews: Sounding Freedom — Two Journeys Through the Avant-Garde and History

November 16, 2025
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Two jazz albums whose uncompromising visions succeed.

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Book Review: Writers on the Brink — “February 1933” and the Chilling Parallels to Trump’s America

November 20, 2025
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Reading “February 1933”, just ten months into Trump’s second mandate is nothing less than unnerving.

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Book Review: Stephen Rebello’s “Criss-Cross”: A Vital Text for Decoding Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train”

November 19, 2025
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There’s no question that the author of “Criss-Cross” approaches “Strangers on a Train” from a gay-centric viewpoint.

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Jazz Concert Review: The McCoy Tyner Legacy Band — Nuances in the Torrent

September 17, 2025
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The McCoy Tyner Legacy Band, in a program called “Blues on the Corner” had it all: the unrelenting, all-enveloping power that was a hallmark of Coltrane’s bands, but also an attention to dynamics, detail, and, most important, melody.

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Visual Arts Review: The Spirit and the Street — Allan Rohan Crite’s Portrait of Community

November 16, 2025
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As an artist, Allan Crite was always observing, drawing, and thinking about his Boston—the buildings, streets, parks, and playgrounds of Lower Roxbury and the South End.

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Rock Concert Preview: The Cyrkle Returns — 1960s Hitmakers Play Boston for the First Time This Millennium

November 12, 2025
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‘60s pop aficionados know there’s more to The Cyrkle than its Fab Four connections.

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Television Review: PBS’s “The American Revolution” — It’s All in the Details

November 14, 2025
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Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David P. Schmidt, along with screenwriter Geoffrey C. Ward, make learning history both accessible and enjoyable.

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Cultural Commentary: France Marks the 10th Anniversary of the Bataclan Attacks

November 15, 2025
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The aftermath of a terrorist act becomes an opportunistic event for those selling us a certain bill of partisan geo-political goods… while simultaneously diminishing our latitude as citizens.

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Film Review: “Close Your Eyes” — Through the Past, Darkly

September 6, 2024
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Spanish director Victor Erice looks back at what’s lost and gained in “Close Your Eyes”.

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Concert Review: “Inspiración” – The BSO Celebrates Puerto Rico with the Orquesta Sinfónico de Puerto Rico, and Re-celebrates James Carter with Dima Slobodeniouk

November 18, 2025
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Concerts in the past week by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with guest artist James Carter and the Orquesta Sinfónico de Puerto Rico with guest artist Luis Sanz were a cultural festival and a musical feast.

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