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Coming Attractions: March 24 through April 8 — What Will Light Your Fire

March 24, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

July 13, 2023
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This week’s poem — Jeremy Ray Jewell’s “Colorado.”

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Folk CD Review: Lonnie Holley’s “MITH” — An Act of Restoration

November 13, 2018
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Lonnie Holley’s music on MITH  sounds like a choir of better angels whose multi-layered voice is hard on the outside and soft on the inside, like so much Alabama clay.

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Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

April 7, 2020
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At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.

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Video Game Commentary: Roblox — Exploiting Child Labor in the Metaverse

May 25, 2022
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The most popular game/platform in the world shows us how some of the darkest chapters of labor history can easily repeat themselves in virtual reality.

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Folk Music Review: Dan Reeder — Weighing Consequences and Accepting Defeat… “Just Feels Sorta Natural”

February 28, 2020
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Uplifting tunes for the aspiring curmudgeon you didn’t know you’d already become

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Country Music Review: Gabe Lee’s “farmland” — The Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Blues

August 16, 2019
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This Nashvillian has a simple message for America: “You best pull yourself together, or you might never be the same.”

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Cultural Commentary: “Dogefather” Elon Musk on SNL – Banking on the Irony of the Rich

May 9, 2021
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“Fate loves irony” opines the billionaire. Will we be in on the joke, or left out in the cold?

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Music Review/Interview: Falle Nioke’s “Youkounkoun” EP + 2 Songs — Africa In Any Language

August 28, 2020
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Falle Nioke has evolved into a kind of cultural ambassador. In the English coastal town of Margate, Kent, he has been praised for his performances of original and traditional compositions on West African instruments.

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Book Review: “The Burning House” — Diversity in Segregation

February 2, 2019
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Anders Walker’s The Burning House sheds fascinating light on a forgotten piece of intellectual history in the Jim Crow South.

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