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Alex Ross at NRM: A Comic Book Coming Home

The Norman Rockwell Museum's upcoming exhibition, Heroes and Villains,  is going to be pretty super. Opening on Saturday, November 10, it gives more than the usual space to the career of illustrator Alex Ross, best known for his work with DC and Marvel Comics and perhaps the most

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Music: Here Comes Trouble

If you want something done right, do it yourself. And if you can't do it yourself, get your Talmudic sisters to help you. This seems to be the motto held by the many women who appear in the scrolls of the Torah. Matriarchs, seductresses, prophets, and mothers line

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Theater Review: The 39 Steps Takes a Leap or Three

The dynamic cast of S&Co's The 39 Steps. All photos by Kevin Sprague. In the world of pre-war British espionage, it's all fun and games until someone loses a major national security secret, at which point, quite naturally, things just get hysterical. At least

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Film Festivals: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

So you missed your chance. But why waste tears on regret? Sure, opening night at the Williamstown Film Festival and the ever-popular Saturday Night Sneak at the FilmColumbia Festival are both (predictably, at this late date) SOLD OUT. But there is still plenty of powerful hanky action to be wrung

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Singing Change Along: The Old Mezzo Debuts at WAM Theatre

WAM co-founder Kristen van Ginhoven and playwright Susan Dworkin What are the politics of singing—and what are the costs? These questions are at the heart of Women’s Action Movement (WAM) Theatre’s world premiere of The Old Mezzo, which runs from October 12-28. The Old Mezzo tells the

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SculptureNow: Now!

"Stalking Cheetah" by Wendy Klemperer When people think of public art in small towns, they may conjure up images of statuesque bronzes to martyred saints such as the beautiful 1896 bronze of Saint Winifred by George E, Bissel, looking at the moment rather lonely (if not downright mopey)

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Verlyn Klinkenborg Signing and Giveaway

Verlyn Klinkenborg, an award-winning American non-fiction author who lives in the RI region, has been writing literary meditations about the joys, rewards, and tribulations of farm life for years now, most notably as a columnist for The New York Times, where he serves on the editorial board, and as the

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The Clark Unearths Rare Artifacts and Sterling Clark's Adventures in China

Sandstone sarcophagus, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE), tomb of Song Shaozu,  dated 477 CE, Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan. In 2000 in Shanxi Province, a nine-ton stone sarcophagus dating back to China's Northern Wei dynasty (386-535 CE) was unearthed. Ironically, the “mini house,” which was once displayed in bits

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Theater Review: John Douglas Thompson Soars in Satchmo at the Waldorf

Shakespeare & Company’s final new production of the summer season is Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout'sSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play set in 1971 in the dressing room of the jazz great Louis Armstrong, after what would turn out to be his last performance.

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Interview with John Kelly, author of The Graves Are Walking, on the Irish Famine

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously remarked, “What’s the point of being Irish if the world doesn’t break your heart?” Central to that tragic view of life was the Irish potato famine of the 1840s that left more than a million people

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The British Are Ailing — Existentially!

Celia Schaefer, Timothy Deenihan, and Danielle SkraastadTomorrow in the Battle, at Stageworks/Hudson, is an excellent and challenging work about three British professionals: Jennifer, a sexy female financier about to get swallowed up  by the collapse of the banking industry;  Anna, a defense minister about to lie to Parliament about

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A Talk with Peter Wheelwright, Architect and Author of As It Is On Earth

Peter Wheelwright, a former dean (now associate professor) in the School of Architecture at Parsons The New School for Design, has just published his first novel, As It Is On Earth. Wheelwright grew up in Lenox, MA., and he and his wife, the photographer Eliza Hicks, have a house in

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