I didn't know I needed the new Billy Joel documentary
NPR critic Linda Holmes has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music in her own.
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'Dear Summer: Volume 3' returns to highlight more emerging artists and DJs
The citywide mixtape features six DJs and 17 up-and-coming and established artists from the Greater Boston area.
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Free museum Sundays expanding to all K-12 children in Boston
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Cillian Murphy on the quiet pathos of his new film 'Small Things Like These'
The film is a contemplative narrative of an Irish family man whose childhood trauma is unearthed after a routine coal delivery to a Magdalene laundry, an institution where "fallen women" were housed and often abused by Catholic nuns. -
Exploring art, magic and mediums at 'Conjuring the Spirit World'
GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath explores Massachusetts’ role in the rise of spiritualism in a four-part series.
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