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Benjamin E. Lytal

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Bringing Out the Dead

If the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) were a repertory company in the old sense of the term, if like the


Durer is in the Details

Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured


Living History

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the interest of objectivity, this review was edited by the Arts feature editor, Christina Rosenberger, and not


A bedrock of house music: One of the dons of the U.K. house music scene comes to Boston

MUSIC JOHN DIGWEED Jan. 27 Axis Were there any chairs at Axis, DJ John Digweed would have had the audience


Album Review: Listen Up, It's Lockgroove

Lockgroove was formed in 1996 and has been a regular at local clubs for years. Both the Boston Phoenix and


Album Review: The Singles Collect and The B-Sides Collect by Skinny Puppy

Where Nine Inch Nails are black, Skinny Puppy were brown. They had an industrial sound but Canadian accents, guilt but


Album Review: Rainbow by Mariah Carey

Listening to Rainbow, Mariah Carey's seventh album, it's clear that the best reason to rock this New Year's will be


Album Review: Vultures: The Best of What Beck Does Best

"Beck" is a magic word. Beck, beck bananna-nanna pho pheck; Beck. The Pied Piper of post-grunge white boys everywhere, Beck


Album Review: Adios by KMFDM

KMFDM, influential all-caps band, burr in the saddle of Republicans everywhere, has perhaps said goodbye. At least their recent album,