Month: June 2014

Fuse Film Review: The 2014 Provincetown International Film Festival — A Sampling

June 26, 2014
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Alive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.

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Film Review: The Good, the Bad, the Mixed at the Provincetown Film Festival

June 25, 2014
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What’s not to adore about this super-friendly, hedonistic, 24-hour street party, what summer resident John Waters celebrates as “a gay fishing village,” and what I might label, oxymoronically, a “queer New Orleans.”

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Fuse Tech: An interview with Jayce Varden, President, North America PledgeMusic

June 25, 2014
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Artists need cash in order to record, tour, and create. They also need support as they hunt for better ways to connect with their fans. That’s where services like PledgeMusic come in.

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Fuse Interview: ArtsBoston Launches The Arts Factor — A Fact-Based Shot of Courage

June 25, 2014
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Until now, the powerful economic reality spotlighted by The Arts Factor has generally been ignored or dismissed as anecdotal.

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Arts Remembrance: Celebrating Rebecca Blunk 1953 – 2014

June 24, 2014
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Rebecca’s spirit will persist in every artist who remembers how much she believed in them, every organization that she urged to greater risk-taking and optimism for the future, and every friend brought together by the sorrow of her passing.

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Film Review: “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne — A Dynamic Documentary

June 24, 2014
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The beauty of this documentary is that even as it makes you laugh, the story’s essential sadness remains. Though it is very fast-paced, the film makes you stop and think — it’s as unsettling as it is charming.

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Theater Review: “Working on a Special Day” — A Very Unusual Show

June 23, 2014
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Working on a Special Day is an unusual show in every way, and I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to see it.

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Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

June 23, 2014
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Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

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Dance Feature: Wonder X 2

June 23, 2014
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In red gloves and dark glasses, popping and locking, the Wondertwins are both imposing humans and robotic objects, organic and mechanical reproduction.

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Fuse Interview: Welcome to the “Mad World” of New Wave Music of the 1980s

June 22, 2014
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“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”

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