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Music
Auber’s 1831 “Le Philtre” (“The Love Potion”) is an engaging romp that helped give birth to Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore.” Immensely popular in his own day, why isn’t it revived more often?
Visual Arts
The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame and the Panopticon Gallery host very different shows featuring rock icons.
Film
In her debut feature, music video director Jacqueline Castel supplies a moody and explicitly queer spin on the metaphor of monster as a maligned queer subject.
Books
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Jillian Boger’s “7 Ways of Making Love (after Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments)”
Dance
We’re not saying get rid of “Madama Butterfly” We’re saying do a better Butterfly.
Theater
Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
Television
Pro Wrestling Company Ohio Valley Wrestling is the little train that could and knows that it can.
Podcasts
Anti-LGBTQ legislation is pending in a number of states, designed to ban or censor drag performances. Elizabeth Howard talks with the iconic performer Jasmine Rice LeBeija about the challenges facing drag performers.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Food
Flux Gourmet occasionally reminded me of the films of Peter Greenaway, who often juxtaposed the grotesque or disturbing with the beautiful and ethereal.
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The Arts Fuse was established in June, 2007 as a curated, independent online arts magazine dedicated to publishing in-depth criticism, along with high quality previews, interviews, and commentaries. The publication's over 70 freelance critics (many of them with decades of experience) cover dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts. Support arts coverage that believes that culture matters.
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