Month: December 2015

Fuse News: “Star Wars” — Max von Sydow lives!

December 23, 2015
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I liked the movie. How not? I’m of the generation that saw the originals, back when the Force was younger.

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Book Review: Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ Memoir of Surviving the Nazi Death Camps

December 23, 2015
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In contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.

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Book Review: “Shout It Out Loud” — KISS and Sell

December 22, 2015
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Shout It Out Loud begins as a forensic examination of KISS’s Destroyer album, but it ends up as much more.

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Theater Review: “The Great Comet” — Immersive Theater, At Its Best

December 21, 2015
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Who would have guessed that a hunk of War and Peace could be such an enormous amount of fun?

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Film Commentary: Blink a Bright Red and Green — “Carol’’’s Holiday Charm

December 21, 2015
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A guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).

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Visual Arts Commentary: Finally, Public Art is Booming in Boston

December 21, 2015
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Boston’s visual art ethos has been painfully safe and systemically non-experimental. Thankfully, that is beginning to change.

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Classical Album Review: Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies nos. 5 and 7

December 20, 2015
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This is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: December 20 through 29—What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 20, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Fuse Feature: Best in Dance of 2015

December 19, 2015
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Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.

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Book Review: “The Big Green Tent” — Lives Lived Without Trust, Memorably Conveyed

December 18, 2015
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We root for all of the ordinary folk who survived — and are still surviving even now — one of the bleakest and saddest periods in Russia’s history.

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