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Rock Remembrance: Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine will be most remembered for Marquee Moon, both the album and title track, which alone would be enough to seal any legacy.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: Marquee Moon, Paul Robicheau, Tom Verlaine

Sundance Film Festival 2023 Dispatch #2: Retreating

My second crop of Sundance screenings features three films that are all about women who, on some level, retreat from certain aspects of their lives: their pasts, their trauma, their public persona.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alice Englert, Bad Behaviour, Jennifer Connelly, Nicole Newnham, Rosa Marchant, Sundance Film Festival 2023, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Until It Melts, Veerle Baetans

Sundance Film Festival Review: “Kim’s Video” — Lost and Found?

Kim’s Video is quixotic in a nutty way — in an old Indie style — that is more refreshing than it is nostalgic.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ashley Sabin, David D'Arcy, David Redmon, Kim’s Video, Sundance Film Festival, video documentary, Video Store, Yongman Kim

Music Perspective: The Context of Wadada Leo Smith’s 12 String Quartets

Wadada Leo Smith is among the most prolific composers of string quartets in the modern era, the only Black composer to have written so many, and one of the most adventurous writers of quartets in terms of his notation system and the distinctiveness of his musical language.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Ankhrasmation, RedKoral, RedKoral Quartet, Steve Elman, String Quartets, String Quartets Nos.1-12, TUM, Tum Records, Wadada Leo Smith

Coming Attractions: January 29 Through February 14 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Evelyn Rosenthal, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Tim Jackson

Theater Review: “The Art of Burning” — Bonfire of the Vanities

The domestic demolition in Kate Snodgrass’s script is served au flambé.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Adrianne Krstansky, Huntington Theater Company, Kate Snodgrass, The Art of Burning

Film Review: “Infinity Pool” — Consumers Consuming Themselves

In Infinity Pool, people who are dead inside essentially play with their own corpses as shiny, new toys. The savagery of that idea is, simply, delicious.

By: Michael Marano Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Brandon Cronenberg, Infinity Pool

Sundance Film Festival 2023 Dispatch #1 — Girls Just Wanna

The three films I selected to start my 2023 Sundance journey were very different from one another, but they shared one common theme: girlhood.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Charlotte Regan, Daina Reid, Laurel Parmet, Peg Aloi, Run Rabbit Run, Scrapper, Sundance 2023, The Starling Girl

Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Shostakovich, Brahms, and Mackey

Under the baton of Andris Nelsons, a listless Boston Symphony Orchestra delivered flat renditions of works by Shostakovich and Brahms.

By: Aaron Keebaugh Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Baiba Skride, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Steven Mackey

Book Review: Two Powerful Books from Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa — A Liberal Citizen of the World

Engagingly written by a limpid stylist, The Call of the Tribe marshals a corps of sparkling intellectuals who have in common first-hand experience of dictatorship, a commitment to individual freedom, a belief in reasonably regulated free-market economies, and a rejection of the political zealotry of religion or the doctrinaire left and right.

By: David Meghan Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Conversation in Princeton, David Mehegan, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Call of the Tribe

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