Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Latest in Visual Arts
Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art — Much More than Murals
Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.
Latest in Music
Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Opening Night
That rarest of Opening Nights: a program that was mostly fun and entertaining, but also substantive and artistically satisfying.
Latest in Dance
Dance Review: Red Sky Performance — A Stunning Look into the Origins of Things
Red Sky Performance’s hold-your-breath physicality provides plenty of “wow factor.”
Latest in Television
Streaming Docs: “Jawline” — The Delusion-Soaked World of Teen Internet Influencers
A Screenager Star is Born?
Latest in Books
Book Review: “The Sweetest Fruits” — Stories in Order to Live
Reading The Sweetest Fruits is like looking at the back of an oriental rug in which the pattern is rather more indistinct than the front but the colors much richer and more vivid.
Latest in Theater
Theater Review: “The America Plays” — Aisle of the Dead
Listening to the dead speak, amid the natural grandeur of Mount Auburn Cemetery, is a moving experience.
Latest in Film
Film Review: “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice”
Linda Ronstadt was every young female singer’s aspirational goddess: if you could nail “You’re No Good” or “Blue Bayou” in the car or the shower, you had practiced a lot.
Latest in Food
Book Feature: Joan Nathan — Sitting at “King Solomon’s Table”
There are 170 recipes in King Solomon’s Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times.
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Rock Concert Review: ZZ Top/Cheap Trick — Simplicity, and Volume, Rules
Apart from predilections turned into marketing hooks, both ZZ Top and Cheap Trick know how to rock as a base instinct – and that also hasn’t changed since they first burst to fame in the ’70s.
Music Interview: Mike Adams At His Honest Weight — Curb Your Skepticism
“Honest weight” has more to with like karats of gold, maybe. The “weight” being the value of something. It kind of alludes to that a little bit.
Music Preview: Guitarist Jimmy Herring — Seeking the Simple Root
Veteran guitarist Jimmy Herring and the 5 of 7 play groove-heavy tunes that barrel into unexpected and interesting places.
Music Commentary: Modern Marketing and The Hella Mega Tour
If the music industry put as much effort into being fair to their customers as they put into taking their money, everyone could participate in the rocking world.
Arts Remembrance: Emily Remler — The Short Life and Sad Death of a Jazz Guitarist
Emily Remler took a particularly clear-eyed view of her work. She didn’t want to be judged by a lesser standard because she was a woman in the overwhelmingly male world of jazz.