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Feb 252013
The Culture of New England: Criticism, Commentary, Conversation
- Coming Attractions
- Fuse Coming Attractions: Regional Summer Dance Performances
- Coming Attractions in Roots and World Music: May 2013
- Classical Music Sampler: May 2013
- Coming Attractions in Film: May 2013 — Updated
- Jazz Week 2013: After a tumultuous year, Boston looks ahead
- Coming Attractions in Local Rock: April 2013
- Coming Attractions in Roots and World Music: April 2013
- Coming Attractions in Film: April 2013
- Classical Music Sampler: April 2013
- Coming Attractions in Jazz: March 2013
- Judicial Review
- Judicial Review #10: Discussing the Point of Elizabeth Graver’s “The End of the Point”
- Judicial Review # 9: Pushing Hot Buttons — David Mamet’s “Race” @ New Rep
- Judicial Review # 8: Making Sense of the “Assassins”
- Judicial Review # 7: Critical Perspectives on “Dialogues of the Carmelites”
- Judicial Review # 6: “Divine Sparks” (Boston Jewish Music Festival Concert at Berklee): How Hot a Flame?
- Judicial Review #5: After the Hoopla — The MFA’s New Art of the Americas Wing
- Judicial Review #4: What Is This Thing Called Food?
- Judicial Review #3: Gish Jen’s World and Town [Updated2x]
- Welcome to the Newly Upholstered Arts Fuse!
- Judicial Review #2: Serenade/The Proposition at Jacob’s Pillow
- Dance
- Fuse Coming Attractions: Regional Summer Dance Performances
- Fuse Dance News: Frederic Franklin — A Legend Passes
- Fuse Dance Review: Not So Random Dances
- Fuse News Dance Tip: Keeping the Art of Kathak Dance Alive
- Fuse Dance News: Sarah in Londonland
- Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed
- Fuse News: Review — Caitlin Corbett Dance Company
- Fuse Dance/Music Review: See Dave Lead — Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra
- Fuse News: Leaving Little to Chance
- Fuse Dance Review: The Joy of Swimming Upstream — Emily Johnson’s “Niicugni”
- Film
- Fuse News Film Review: “Something in the Air” — Radicalism Redux
- Fuse Music Review: The Boston Pops does “Fantasia”
- Fuse News Film Appreciation: Farewell, Master Animator — The Divine Legacy of Ray Harryhausen
- Fuse Film News: Bert Stern — Original Madman
- Fuse Movie News: Ingenious But Cold — “In the House”
- Coming Attractions in Film: May 2013 — Updated
- Fuse Film Commentary: “Greetings from Tim Buckley” and the Demands of the Rock Biopic
- Fuse News: In Defense of a Cinematic Masterpiece — “To the Wonder”
- Fuse News: The Independent Film Festival of Boston — A Few Tips
- Fuse News: What Cinema Says About the Boston Marathon Bombing
- Food
- Fuse News Food Review: The Hungry Carp Has Brunch at Area Four
- Brainstorming the Sweet Potato — El Bulli, The Movie
- Fuse Food Muse: A WRAP FOR A RAJ — Scenes From The Life Of The Dosa
- Judicial Review #4: What Is This Thing Called Food?
- Food Muse: Boston Cream Pie, The Pie That Takes The Cake
- Food Fuse: Culture Vulture Goes Manhattan
- Food Muse: Breaking Bread, Breaking the Ice
- Food Muse: Happy National Donut Day!
- Food Muse: Pictures At An Exhibition, Exhibitionist Food–Luis Melendez At The MFA and Tapas At Toro
- Food Muse: Resplendent Romanesco Rhapsody
- Literature
- Fuse News: The Perfect Book Review — Making Things Hot for Dan Brown’s “Inferno”
- Fuse Book Review: The Fine-Spun Harmonic Furies of William Gass’s “Middle C”
- Fuse Book Review: A Compelling Look at the Life of Poet John Keats
- Fuse Book Review: Vital, Phenomenal — Novelist Anthony Marra’s debut
- Fuse Book Review: Inclement “Climates”
- Short Fuse Book Review: “Harvard Square” — Precincts of a Vanished Life
- Fuse Theater Review : “An Iliad” — War’s All Greek to Me
- Fuse Book Commentary: Two Cheers for British Poet, Book Artist, and Visionary William Blake
- Fuse Book Review: Words From a Bedeviled Life — “Mingus Speaks”
- Fuse Book Review: “The Bottom of the Jar” — An Indelible Glimpse of Moroccan Life
- Music
- Fuse Jazz Review: Singer Nicky Schrire at Scullers — Beyond Words
- Fuse Theater Review: A Skewed and Silly “Pirates of Penzance” Sets Sail
- Fuse News: Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director-designate Andris Nelsons
- Fuse Commentary/Review: “Writing the Record” — Making Rock Criticism Safe for the Seminar Room
- Fuse Music News: Boston Does Boston — For the JP Music Festival
- Fuse Jazz Review: Pianist Tamir Hendelman — More than Just a Classic Sideman
- Fuse Music Review: The Boston Pops does “Fantasia”
- Coming Attractions in Roots and World Music: May 2013
- Fuse Concert Review: Nikolaj Znaider and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
- Coming Attractions in Local Rock: May 2013
- Television
- Fuse Television Review: Christopher Guest’s Humble “Family Tree”
- Fuse News: Forget the Insufferable “Mr. Selfridge” — Turn to Zola’s “The Ladies’ Paradise” Instead
- Short Fuse: Meditating on the Psychedelic Realism of “Mad Men”
- Fuse News: Rdio Creates Vdio, An Online Video Service
- Fuse News: Buy American? Non-American Bands in American Commercials
- Fuse TV Commentary: “American Horror Story” — The Homeland as Asylum?
- Fuse Book Review: The Boston Jazz Chronicles — Indispensible History
- Fuse TV Review: Netflix Keeps “Arrested Development” For the Sake of Our Sanity
- Fuse TV Commentary: Why the SAG Awards is the Most Viewer-friendly Awards Show
- Fuse TV Review: Thoughts on the Golden Globes and Its TV Awards
- Theater
- Fuse Theater Review: A Skewed and Silly “Pirates of Penzance” Sets Sail
- Fuse News Theater Review: Lord of the Flies, A-levels version
- Fuse Theater News: Richard Foreman’s Bewitching Box of the Unconscious
- Fuse Theater Review : “An Iliad” — War’s All Greek to Me
- Fuse News: May Theater Tip in the Berkshires
- Fuse Theater Review: “She Kills Monsters” — A Delightful Celebration of Geekery
- Fuse Theater Review: “M” and the Torment of Artistic Freedom
- Fuse Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Take Two
- Fuse Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — On Race and Hollywood
- Fuse Theater Review: The Art of Escaping from Dread — Guillermo Calderón’s “Neva”
- Video Games
- Fuse Visual Arts Review: Boston Cyberarts’ “The Game’s Afoot” — Something Clever
- Fuse Video Game Review: Playing the “Ace of Spades”
- Coming Attractions: Jazz Week 2012 Update
- Fuse Commentary: The Brave New World of Videogame Art
- Fuse Visual Arts Review: Questioning the Image
- Film Commentary: Video Games — The Real Final Frontier?
- Book Review: “Expressive Processing” for the Masses?
- Visual Arts
- Fuse News: NYC’s The American Folk Art Museum — Destroying it as Vandalism.
- Fuse Visual Arts: The New Rijksmuseum — A Revelation
- Short Fuse Visual Arts News: What is Good Art? Me and Barry McGee
- Fuse Visual Arts Review: At the Currier Museum of Art and the MFA — Bask in the Deadly Splendor of the Samurai
- Fuse Visual Arts Feature: The Design Museum Boston Invites You to Sit Yourself Down
- Fuse Book Review: “The Melancholy Art” — Art History and Depression
- Fuse Visual Arts: Portraitist Anders Zorn — From Stardom to Seclusion
- Fuse Visual Arts: A Splendid “Teaching the Body” — Exploring the Venerable Art of Anatomy
- Short Fuse: The Art of Charles Krafft — Nazism in Modern Drag?
- Fuse Book Review: “Lost Battles” — Leonardo and Michelangelo Strut Their Stuff