Culture
‘Paris, 13th District’: When the city really sizzles
April 14, 2022This big screen adaptation of American cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel is quite graphic in terms of nudity and sexuality.
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Flags and banners at the Wende Museum: its most moving exhibition ever!
April 13, 2022The Wende Museum has thousands of flags and banners from the former socialist bloc; this new exhibition gives just a taste of what's in their archives.
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‘Recovering Ancient Spiro’: Remembering one of Native America’s most forgotten but important sites
April 12, 2022Spiro is considered by many scholars to have been at one time the single most powerful political and cultural entity in North America.
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Lost people, spaces and places: The 2022 crime novel
April 12, 2022One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon.
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Classical CDs highlight African-American and women’s contributions
April 11, 2022Under review here are three classical CDs featuring African-American composers with greater or lesser (mostly lesser) familiarity, and one non-Black Bostonian lady.
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