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Fuse Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel — A Deliriously Eccentric Adventure Story
Director Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.
Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.
Fuse Views: This is What We Look Like — On “Selfies” and Self-Image
Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our own “raw” photos.
Fuse Concert Review: Pianist Stephen Hough Dazzles in Rockport
Stephen Hough’s performance of piano works by Brahms and Chopin was enthralling, poetic, and spellbinding.
Fuse Music Review: On Quatuor Ébène’s program — Mozart, Bartók and “Pulp Fiction.”
Quatuor Ébène burst into song. And I think it’s safe to say singing of any kind is almost never heard at a strings-only concert.
Fuse Music Interview: Billy McCarthy of Augustines — Doing Strong Work
“It seems now that quality spreads through reputation — the live show is where we really see bands pull away from the pack. It takes quality now to survive. Strong work.”
Fuse Concert Review: An Enthusiastic Discovery Ensemble at Jordan Hall
As if the Discovery Ensemble’s impressive return after a three-month hiatus weren’t news enough, last week brought the announcement that Courtney Lewis has been appointed assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, beginning this fall.
Fuse Theater Review: A First-Rate “Flick” From Company One
In “The Flick,” Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call “relatable,” exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from connecting in a meaningful way.
In Brief
- Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.
- Fuse Views: This is What We Look Like — On “Selfies” and Self-Image
Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our own “raw” photos.
- Fuse Theater Review: “Hard Love” — A Timely Exploration of a Bitter Religious Rift
Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
- Fuse News: Gender Underrepresentation in the Media — VIDA Surveys Dudesville and Beyond
VIDA, an association of women in the literary arts, has released its fifth annual tally of the number of women critics in major literary publications as well as the number of works by women being reviewed.
Music
Fuse Concert Review: Pianist Stephen Hough Dazzles in Rockport
Stephen Hough’s performance of piano works by Brahms and Chopin was enthralling, poetic, and spellbinding.
Theater
Fuse Theater Review: A First-Rate “Flick” From Company One
In “The Flick,” Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call “relatable,” exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from connecting in a meaningful way.
Film
Fuse Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel — A Deliriously Eccentric Adventure Story
Director Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.
Literature
“Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.
Visual Arts
Fuse Museum Notes: The American Folk Art Museum goes down, Harvard Art Museums go dark
Significant changes in the world of the art museum can trigger roiling controversy or transpire in problematic quiet.
Dance
Fuse Dance Feature: Boston Ballet’s “Close to Chuck”
Surrounded by the gilded ornamentation of the Boston Opera house, the three minimalist pieces that make up “Close to Chuck” could not be any more of a contrast.
Television
Fuse TV Review: Give Some Love to TBS’s “The Pete Holmes Show”
Along with the absence of a desk, the fact that guests aren’t coming on in order to plug their latest whatever sets “The Pete Holmes Shows” apart from typical late-night fare.
Food
Fuse Food Commentary: The Fauvists of Cuisine — Test Tube or Taste Test?
Molecular gastronomy, the application of scientific principles to the understanding of domestic and gastronomic food principles is shaking up the food world harder than Shake ‘n Bake.
Judicial Review
REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?
This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Read the reactions and join the conversation.
Commentary
Fuse Views: This is What We Look Like — On “Selfies” and Self-Image
Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our own “raw” photos.
Interview
Fuse Music Interview: Billy McCarthy of Augustines — Doing Strong Work
“It seems now that quality spreads through reputation — the live show is where we really see bands pull away from the pack. It takes quality now to survive. Strong work.”
Preview
Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.
Review
Fuse Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel — A Deliriously Eccentric Adventure Story
Director Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.
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