Arts Fuse Editor
A powerful document about the persecution of an American icon and the government that tried to destroy him.
As we move into the 21st Century, with the Climate Crisis and consumerism on the rise, the Shaker’s “less is so much more” sensibility takes on even more significance, practical as well as spiritual.
How do you make filmed opera relevant in the Age of COVID? The BLO isolated the performers from one another and made E.A. Poe’s story the dream of an immigrant child in detention on the US/Mexico border.
These essays aren’t overly scientific; instead, they remind us, with a gentle nudge, to take delight in nature, to pay attention to it, to be observant.
Those who value serious journalism (as well as the rights of journalists) should be quite worried about just how lethally Boston Globe management is attempting to undercut the newspaper’s union.
Surviving Death’s balance between personal experiences and scientific theories makes the series unexpectedly provocative.
BBC’s The Repair Shop is about hard work and mending battered psyches.
The long-forgotten Il paria (1829), a work that Donizetti himself prized more highly than many of his other works, has now been reconstructed by a scholarly team and given a splendid recording.
I will miss Chilling Adventures of Sabrina more than I may care to admit.

Film Commentary: “Nomadland” and Freedom’s Call — A Realistic Look at a Growing Subculture
Director Chloé Zhao evokes the refreshing experience of freedom felt at the end of a nomad’s typical work day.
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