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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Fuse Remembrance: A Tribute to Roger Ebert by Arts Fuse Editor

In the end, it is not the brilliance of his criticism or the strength of his prose for which we will remember Roger Ebert, but his humanity and his love"for film, for life, and, most of all,…

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Coming Attractions in Local Rock: April 2013 by Arts Fuse Editor

It is April in New England and for local music that means one thing, it's time to RUMBLE!.

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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Fuse Poetry Review: Poet Henrik Nordbrandt " Hovering Between Banality and Revelation by Arts Fuse Editor

"Henrik Nordbrandt now holds a unique place in his homeland as its most celebrated national poet, who happens to have spent most of his adult life outside Denmark."

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Coming Attractions in Roots and World Music: April 2013 by Arts Fuse Editor

The Slide Brothers fuse steel with gospel, Etana brings the roots back to reggae, Duke Levine steps out on his own, and much, much more this month.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Fuse Music Review: Mount Moriah " Hard to Classify But Superb at Café 939 by Arts Fuse Editor

Is it country? Is it rock? When it's good, is there really a difference?

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Fuse Jazz Review: The Charles Lloyd New Quartet " Of Sound and Silence by Arts Fuse Editor

It turns out that it was more than just a rumor that saxophonist Charles Lloyd spent some of the '70s playing with The Beach Boys.

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Fuse Theater Review: The Wages of Guilt " The Shocking Relevance of "Operation Epsilon" by Arts Fuse Editor

Are those who merely stand and watch as guilty as those who drop the bombs, pull the triggers, or run the trains? The question is no less relevant today than more than sixty years ago.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Fuse Visual Arts Review: Boston Cyberarts' "The Game's Afoot" " Something Clever by Arts Fuse Editor

None of these games engendered any suffering at all. They were already pre-designed for failure; a player has no chance of success. But isn't part of the pleasure of gaming the repeated fail…

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Judicial Review #10: Discussing the Point of Elizabeth Graver's "The End of the Point" by Arts Fuse Editor

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This session discusses Elizabeth Graver's new novel The End of the …

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Monday, March 18, 2013

Fuse Jazz Review: MIT Wind Ensemble and Two Clarinet Luminaries Serve Up Something Special by Arts Fuse Editor

Recipe for a memorable evening at MIT's Kresge Auditorium: two of the world's great clarinetists, an inspiring conductor, a hard-working student band, and a major new piece of the clarinet r…

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Fuse Theater Review: A Searing "Raisin in the Sun" by Arts Fuse Editor

Director Liesl Tommy's unflinching approach gives Lorraine Hansberry's classic a surprising urgency more than half a century after the drama first played on Broadway.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Fuse Concert Review: Vladimir Jurowski Leads the London Philharmonic at Symphony Hall by Arts Fuse Editor

The Celebrity Series of Boston offers top-notch artists and performing ensembles from around the world. With a Russian at the helm, it is no surprise that the Shostakovich Concerto would mat…

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Fuse Theater Review: "Clybourne Park" " Chafing at the Raw Wound of Racism by Arts Fuse Editor

In Bruce Norris' Pulitzer prize-winning play "Clybourne Park," resentment and racism chafe at the thin veneer of polite pleasantries.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Fuse Rock Review: Alt-J at Paradise " Not the New Radiohead by Arts Fuse Editor

The music has no soul. Alt-J isn't "the new Radiohead." They're "the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer."

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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Coming Attractions in Local Rock: March 2013 by Arts Fuse Editor

It's March in Boston and that means lots of tourists and college kids wearing green things and claiming to be Irish. Take them by the hand and lead them to one of the following musical offer…

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Fuse Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination by Arts Fuse Editor

Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Fuse Book Review: Poet/Essayist Richard J. Fein " Yiddish as Mother Tongue and Lost Lover by Arts Fuse Editor

"The Beginning-End of Yiddish," is poet/essayist Richard Fein's core subject: his love for a language largely eviscerated in his lifetime.

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Fuse Jazz Review: The Bad Plus Celebrates Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" by Arts Fuse Editor

Postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus plays some of the prettiest versions of Stravinsky ever performed.

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Friday, February 15, 2013

Fuse Jazz Review: Terri Lyne Carrington Takes on the "Money Jungle" by Arts Fuse Editor

No one would say that Terri Lyne Carrington's versions of Ellington's pieces are definitive, but they extend the legendary composer's legacy in a personal and significant way.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Fuse Book Review: Guilty Pleasures? " Rocker Peter Hook Takes Us Inside Joy Division by Arts Fuse Editor

Peter Hook's memoir contains no earthshattering revelations, but it does offer a new way (or at least another way) of thinking about the four young men who made up Joy Division.

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Fuse Music Interview: In a "Heartbeat" by Arts Fuse Editor

Heartbeat is an international non-profit organization that is aimed at uniting Israeli and Palestinian musicians, educators and students in order to transform conflict through the power of m…

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Fuse Poetry Review: "The Briar Patch" " Crafty Poems, Accomplished and Sly by Arts Fuse Editor

Poems of concise and precise description and philosophy find their way among poems of memory and daily life, money, art, love, and the oddities in giving names. The J. Kates's technique is a…

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Fuse Theater Review: A Hauntingly Beautiful "Glass Menagerie" by Arts Fuse Editor

The luminous physical beauty of the production staged by the American Repertory Theater, coupled with carefully crafted performances by its performers, makes this a Glass Menagerie to be che…

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Fuse Rock Music Review: The Vaccines Grow Up, But It's Not Easy by Arts Fuse Editor

While The Vaccines Come of Age is a very good album, I can't listen to it without thinking that maybe the band grew up a little too fast.

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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Fuse Poetry Introduction: Handle With Readerly Care " "The Porcupine of Mind" by Arts Fuse Editor

Consider these few notes my handing The Porcupine of Mind off to you " you read it, you write about it, then we'll come back and talk.

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Fuse Film Commentary: Grimm Sightings on the Silver Screen " The Imagination Killers by Arts Fuse Editor

Films such as Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters deny audiences the capacity to suspend disbelief. Instead, they use technology to make the impossible look real and the magical seem as this-wo…

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Coming Attractions in New England Rock: February 2013 by Arts Fuse Editor

Forget the Superbowl and screw Valentine's Day. There is too much great music happening in our corner of the country to waste time on such frivolous occasions. Will you need snow boots or su…

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Classical Music Sampler: February 2013 by Arts Fuse Editor

A strong month featuring performances from the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet, vocal group A Far Cry, and new music from Sound Icon.

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Fuse Jazz Review: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour " A Band of Virtuosic Veterans by Arts Fuse Editor

Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater's exuberance proved contagious in this performance featuring a remarkable group of jazz all-stars under the genial direction of bassist Christian McBride.

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Fuse Jazz CD Review: A Song Cycle "For Langston" by Arts Fuse Editor

For Langston fails on its own terms, which is to produce a moving, insightful, and in some sense accurate interpretation of the poetry of Langston Hughes.

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Fuse Book Review: "How Literature Saved My Life" " Maybe by Arts Fuse Editor

Notwithstanding all that David Shields writes about the books and authors he loves, both classic and contemporary, he announces that today he can't bear to write or read novels or even short…

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