Turntable: What’s on a global music connoisseur’s playlist?
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New safety rules restrict where Somerville PorchFest musicians can perform
Porches along some streets will not be eligible to participate in the May festival, due to new safely regulations. And organizers will deploy a new taskforce to stay on top of safety and logistics.
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A reporter's memoir of her jail time gets banned in Florida prisons
When an author's book gets banned or confiscated, one might imagine that the writer might be frustrated, or even angry. But when Keri Blakinger received… -
Bill Irwin tackles a famously difficult writer in 'On Beckett' at ArtsEmerson
Plus, "English" at the SpeakEasy Stage Company and gold on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. -
Salem is the Halloween capital of America — but it wasn't always that way
The "Witch City" has transformed from one reckoning with its sordid past to embracing Halloween tourism.
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