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Jazz Commentary: Pee Wee Russell — A Singular Voice

April 7, 2019
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Despite the fact that clarinet (and occasional sax) player Pee Wee Russell was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz history, his name remains unknown outside of infra jazz circles.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” — Coming of Age Cauldron

April 6, 2019
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The series presents plausible, relatable social situations within a weird, dark, quasi-magical framework.

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Theater Review: “The Haunted Life”– The Lyricism of Jack Kerouac’s Formative Years

April 6, 2019
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It’s Shakespeare in Lowell –the stage piled with ghostly corpses, the heroes all dead, the young bard in mourning.

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Film Review: “The Beach Bum” — Purposefully Boneheaded

April 5, 2019
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If you’re the kind of person who coveted every word and wild-man gesture of inebriated Hunter S. Thompson, The Beach Bum could be your movie.

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Film Review: At the Boston Underground Film Festival — “Knife+Heart” and “Mope”

April 2, 2019
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My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.

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Film Review: “Diane” — Heroine of a Different Stripe

April 1, 2019
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What elevates these ordinary lives is director Kent Jones’s elegiac distance; the narrative has the feel of a memory piece.

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Film Review: “Hail Satan?” — Fighting Evil

March 30, 2019
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These satanists are far less concerned with organizing decadent ceremonies (though there is a fair bit of that, and it’s thrilling to behold) than they are with exposing corruption and hypocrisy.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #12: Howl at the Loon

March 30, 2019
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It happens. Podcast producer Lucas Spiro messed up the audio for this episode —but he managed to put this together so you wouldn’t have to go without our sweet, sweet content.

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Television Review: “Shrill” — Fat and Proud

March 30, 2019
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Shrill picks up narrative strength once we see Annie slowly come to terms with the yawning gap between who she is and who she has been told to be by her family, her friends, and society at large.

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Jazz Album Review: Miles Davis — An Excellent Homage to the Master

March 29, 2019
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This album does an excellent job of recapturing some of the glory of the original Miles Davis recordings.

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