Month: August 2013

Fuse Jazz Review: Pianist Marc Cary — A Virtuoso Yarnspinner

August 31, 2013
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Pianist Marc Cary came to Sculler’s to play the neglected compositions of celebrated singer Abbey Lincoln.

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Arts Feature: Celebrating The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home in the Berkshires

August 31, 2013
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The fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.

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Film Review: “The Canyons” — Yucky But Likeable

August 31, 2013
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Lindsay Lohan is prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.

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Music Feature: A Tribute to Fenwick Smith, Flutist Extraordinaire

August 30, 2013
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For classical music lovers, the opening of the concert season was synonymous with flutist Fenwick Smith’s annual recitals.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 30, 2013
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[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music, and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Jazz Review: Trumpeter Jason Palmer Plays Minnie Riperton — Pop Meets New Jazz

August 29, 2013
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An evening that showed yet again how pop (even “modern” pop) can serve as nourishment for new jazz.

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Fuse Commentary: MBTA Set to Demolish the “Center of the Universe” in Harvard Square

August 29, 2013
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Apparently, an agency like the MBTA can simply take a wrecking ball to pieces of public art such as “Omphalos” when their existence becomes an encumbrance. No questions asked.

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Poetry Feature: Haiku Inspired by HFA’s “Noir All Night”

August 29, 2013
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Fuse film critic Betsy Sherman has written a series of haiku inspired by an all-night marathon of film noir screenings.

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Arts Commentary: Do Boston’s Mayoral Candidates Support the Arts? Who Knows? — An Update

August 28, 2013
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Those who champion the arts need to realize that talk is cheap — we have to fight to get a place at the political table.

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Book Review: “The Goddess Chronicle” — Needs Less Plot, More Imagination

August 28, 2013
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There is a paucity of richness in The Goddess Chronicle. The myth might have been, but wasn’t, mined for tales of compassion, or inevitability of sorrow, or the psychology of misogyny or of revenge, or the strictures of fate.

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