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Art Review: “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s”
Shirley MoskowThe exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, should disabuse anyone who clings to the notion that art in museums is removed from the real world. “This Will Have...
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Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane is the Bum
Sue KatzWe saw your boobs, and your boobs, and your boobs, Seth MacFarlane sang – his teeth so white and his privilege so resplendent – embracing among these opportunities to peek at the breasts of...
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Walter Mosely and China Miéville and Karl Marx
Sue Katz Marx. Capitalism. Racism. Cockroaches. All were fair game when Walter Mosley, the beloved and versatile American master of fiction, and China Miéville, one of Britain’s leading writers of “New...
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Film Review: Stud Life by Campbell X
Sue Katz“Stud Life” was one of three opening films (May 3 at Cambridge’s Brattle Theater) for the 2013 Boston LGBT Film Festival.
View ArticleBaltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum
Sue KatzThe American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is a Baltimore treasure housing the art of self-taught artists – many of them working class, some with histories of mental health breakdowns, of exile...
View ArticleBook Review: Gold Rush In The Jungle
Shirley MoskowGold Rush In The Jungle by Dan Drollette Jr, The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s “Lost World” (Crown Publishers, New York, 316 pages, $25.00)Award-winning...
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Boston Gay Men’s Chorus: Divas Unleashed for Pride
Sue KatzFor their Pride weekend show, the 175 members of Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, dressed in black tuxedos and red ribbons, crowded onto the stage at John Hancock Hall to celebrate musical Divas.
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Art Around Boston
Shirley MoskowArt is cool. This summer, Boston area museums offer great places to revive body and soul. They’re air-conditioned, and they’re inviting.
View ArticleRebuilding the Labor Movement
Greg KingSave Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distressby Steve EarlyNew York: Monthly Review Press, 2013 At the beginning of 2013, American workers were reeling from body blows -- in Michigan...
View ArticleFilm Review: Al Helm: MLK in Palestine
Sue KatzAn American playwright and MLK scholar Dr. Clay Carson takes a choir of seven African American gospel singers to Palestine. There his play Passages of Martin Luther King has been adapted as Al...
View ArticleREVIEW: Sila at Central Square Theater
Inez HedgesPlays about real-life human dramas often plumb deep cultural roots. For the first time in earth’s history, massive climate change is taking place in the presence of a terrestrial species...
View ArticleBook Review: Lillian's Last Affair and Other Stories
Barbara BeckwithAfter reading Sue Katz’ Lillian’s Last Affair and Other Stories (Consulting Adult Press, 2014), you’ll never again assume that you know what a “little old lady” is thinking or doing.
View ArticleBook Review: Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity
Sue KatzWomen Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity, ed: Sukhwant Dhaliwal and Nira Yuval-Davis, (Lawrence & Wishart, 2014) includes essays by 19 members of Women Against...
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