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Commentary/Interview: Boston Globe Union Negotiations — Anger and Resistance

November 8, 2019
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Those who value serious journalism (as well as the rights of journalists) should be quite worried about just how lethally Boston Globe management is attempting to undercut the newspaper’s union.

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Opera Album Review: Finally on CD — a Searing ’60s Opera from Russia about the Nazi Era

July 2, 2022
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Moissey Vainberg’s opera powerfully evokes the brutality of Hitler’s extermination camps and the moral ambiguity of postwar Germany.

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Film Commentary: Provincetown International Film Festival Gets Things Almost Right in Terms of Diversity

July 31, 2018
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Programming can make a difference in who feels invited to the table, and Provincetown International Film Festival has made it clear that diversity—especially supporting the work of female-identified filmmakers—is a top priority.

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Book Review: “The Jail is Everywhere” — Expansion Plans

February 7, 2024
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The essays in this book are a critical read for folks who might be fighting prison expansion or construction in their neighborhoods.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Netflix’s “Dark” — Childhood Horrors, Revisited

August 20, 2018
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Dark is not a German version of Stranger Things; its historical vision is distinctive.

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January Short Fuses — Materia Critica

January 3, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Crucible” — Burn, Baby, Burn

September 23, 2019
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Bedlam’s provocative production of The Crucible has a purpose — to urge us all to stand up and shout down the devils in our midst.

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Music Commentary: The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute

August 27, 2016
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If any of you are harboring a budding young musician, investigate the possibility of he or she attending BUTI.

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Film Review: Abel Ferrara’s Elusive “Padre Pio” — A Holy Man?

June 2, 2023
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Wildly imperfect but intriguingly ambiguous, the film’s flaws and contradictions are a virtue because its purported saintly hero is so hard to pin down.

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Film Review: “One Battle After Another” — One Car Chase After Another

September 26, 2025
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Director P.T. Anderson’s latest puts up a fight, but it is for a lost cause.

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