IMG_2398-Enhanced-NR

Concert Review: Disco Biscuits — A Band Reborn

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions: March 10 through 26 — What Will Light Your Fire

Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Read More

The Arts Fuse Currents

Music

Concert Review: Disco Biscuits — A Band Reborn

By Scott McLennan | March 19, 2024

The Disco Biscuits are playing champion-level shows following a period of rebuilding and recalibrating that brought the band out of semi-retirement.

Visual Arts

Traveling Exhibit Review: “Auschwitz — Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.”

By Robert Israel | March 17, 2024

“Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” is compelling, but its message feels hermetically sealed — the exhibit needs to draw crucial connections with what is going on now.

Film

Film Review: “Love Lies Bleeding” — Fatigued Existential Ruthlessness

By Michael Marano | March 14, 2024

“Love Lies Bleeding” is a glorious work of sweaty, dusty, pulp filmmaking.

Books

Book Review: “Shakespeare and Baseball” — Make “Speed to Catch the Tiger”

By Bill Littlefield | March 18, 2024

Professor Crowl’s attachments to both Shakespeare’s plays and the play of the Detroit Tigers are sincere and durable.

Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 14, 2024

This week’s poem: Sharon Mesmer’s “Sage-Femme”

Dance

Dance Review: Flamenco Dance — Unapologetically Sexy

By Jessica Lockhart | March 12, 2024

Flamenco is big, bold, and fully human as it (often) traces the tensions of courtship, indulging in the sensual and the aggressive.

Theater

Theater Review: Touring “Girl From North Country” – A Slow, Serious Musical set to the Bob Dylan Catalog

By Bob Abelman | March 15, 2024

Bob Dylan’s music has rarely been more heartbreaking, his poetic storytelling rarely more beguiling, and the singing never less nasal.

Television

Television Review: “Girls 5eva,” Season Three — Back and Better Than Ever

By Sarah Osman | March 17, 2024

Wisely, Netflix has renewed “Girls5eva” for a third season. This series about a one-hit wonder ’90s girl group attempting to make a comeback remains as witty and satirical as ever

Podcasts

Short Fuse Podcast #66: Let’s Get “Authentic”

By Elizabeth Howard | December 19, 2023

In this episode of The Short Fuse, host Elizabeth Howard and Alex Waters, technical editor of the podcast, reflect on the year in an informal conversation.

Short Fuses

March Short Fuses — Materia Critica

By Arts Fuse Editor | March 2, 2024

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Food

Film Review: “Flux Gourmet” — Food, Glorious Food

By Peg Aloi | August 23, 2022

Flux Gourmet occasionally reminded me of the films of Peter Greenaway, who often juxtaposed the grotesque or disturbing with the beautiful and ethereal.

About the Arts Fuse

The Arts Fuse was established in June, 2007 as a curated, independent online arts magazine dedicated to publishing in-depth criticism, along with high quality previews, interviews, and commentaries. The publication's over 70 freelance critics (many of them with decades of experience) cover dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts. Support arts coverage that believes that culture matters.