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
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Hendricks found European museum paintings riveting for their beauty, but striking for their lack of Blackness. -
Roadrunner, Boston's new indoor concert venue, is up and running
The venue purports to be a lot of things: the midsize concert space it believes the city needs, a neighborhood stimulant, a nonprofit arts partner.
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