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Melissa Ferrick
30 years into a prolific career as a genre and gender-defying songwriter, Melissa Ferrick continues to disrupt normative categorization. Indie, Alternative, Folk, Punk…Melissa Ferrick won’t be labeled. With disarming wit and raw vulnerability, every lyric in Ferrick’s immense catalog is an invitation to confession or catharsis. Ferrick, a genre-defying songwriter with 18 albums spanning 30 […]
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Brattle Theatre Presents: The Letter
This noir-tinged melodrama features Bette Davis at her boldest and best. A man has been murdered and Leslie Crosby (Davis) has confessed, claiming self-defense. Things get more complicated, however, when a damning letter shows up in the possession of the man’s widow. Double Feature with MILDRED PIERCE
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Brattle Theatre Presents: Mildred Pierce
Bette Davis was the Queen of Warner Bros for most of the ‘30s and into the ‘40s but she gained real competition when Warners gave Joan Crawford a contract in 1943. Crawford’s first major film for the studio was this noir melodrama in which she plays a struggling divorcée who sacrifices everything to try and […]
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Patti Hartigan at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes theater critic PATTI HARTIGAN for a discussion of her new biography August Wilson: A Life. About August Wilson: A Life: August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American playwright has completed such an ambitious oeuvre. Two […]
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Niall Connolly
A master storyteller, Niall Connolly is the kind of guy you want to find yourself sitting next to at a pub, a wedding, or even a funeral. On The Patience of Trees, Connolly’s 9th album, his songs are slow-simmered, rich with family histories, and woven with a golden thread of dark Irish humor. “I’ve got […]
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