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Short Fuse Podcast #25 — An Interview with Film Directors Andrew Silver & Tim Jackson

February 26, 2020
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For the second straight year, the Art Fuse podcast — Short Fuse — has been named a finalist for the Somerville Media Center’s Best Boston Free Podcast of the Year Award!

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Music Preview: Circles Around the Sun — Celebrating Legacies

February 25, 2020
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Circles Around the Sun has established a distinctive niche within the expanding universe of “Grateful Dead as genre,” appealing to the core audience for Dead music without having to pull songs from the group’s songbook.

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Theater Review: “The Treasurer” — Lives of Quiet Disconnection

February 25, 2020
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Cheryl McMahon is quietly spectacular as Ida, who tries desperately to conceal her cognitive decline behind a wall of egocentric cheerfulness that borders on the frantic.

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Film Review: “The Lodge” — The Horror of Indoors

February 25, 2020
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The Lodge suggests that our money, social privilege, and carefully-crafted stability are not enough to keep the wolves from the door, or to protect us from the dangers that lurk indoors.

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Dance Review: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group — Powerful Gifts

February 24, 2020
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There’s hardly a minute in this hour-long show that isn’t stirred by singing, clapping, stomping, and drumming.

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Theater Preview: “Citrus” — World Premiere of a Choreopoem

February 24, 2020
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The stories in Citrus exhibit a powerful commonality: these portraits of th3e experiences of black women suggest that, over time, everything and nothing has changed.

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Film Review: “Zombi Child” — Alluring Haitian-French Folk Horror

February 21, 2020
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At times, Zombi Child successfully hovers between spooky documentary and an art house coming-of-age film.

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Coming Attractions: February 23 Through March 10– What Will Light Your Fire

February 21, 2020
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Film Review: “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” — A Harlequin Feminist Manifesto

February 17, 2020
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The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?

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Book Review: “Weather” — Despite All the Ruckus

February 17, 2020
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There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.

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