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Music Review: Best New Album of July 2019

August 16, 2019
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Chance’s The Big Day beautifully blends authentic passion with superior talent and special guests with star power.

Film Review: “The Nightingale” — Song of the Powerless

August 16, 2019
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The Nightingale delivers an indelible vision of inhumanity perpetuated by colonialism and white privilege.

Rock CD Review: Sleater-Kinney’s “The Center Won’t Hold” — Mom + Pop

August 15, 2019
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This album lacks the desperation, the immediacy, the sheer power that made Sleater-Kinney essential in its original decade.

Classical Music CD Review: “Bach: Toccatas” — A Harpsichord of Feral Energy

August 14, 2019
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In this extraordinary recording, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani is given a chance to perfectly convey the power of his emotions.

Music Review: The Gloucester Blues Festival — A Manageable Model

August 13, 2019
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I left thinking that holding a blues (or a jazz) festival in every city and town would not be a bad idea. It’s a better way for municipalities to spend their money — with a surer payoff — than tax abatements for Amazon.

Film Review: “Them That Follow” — Of Serpents and Sects

August 13, 2019
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feels both cautionary and elegiac; it is obviously relevant in these times of extremism and the rise of small town tyrannies.

Dance Review: “Gallim” — Extremes of Stress and Release

August 13, 2019
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Gallim specializes in depicting raw emotions through movement.

Film Review: “After the Wedding” — An American Telenovela

August 12, 2019
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After the Wedding never finds its emotional rhythm; melodramatic confrontations about betrayals and past choices lurch clunkily along.

Coming Attractions: August 12 through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

August 12, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

WATCH CLOSELY: Resistance and Revenge in Season 3 of “The Handmaid’s Tale”

August 9, 2019
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Following a very compelling second season, the series seems to be losing its edge, slightly, though only intermittently.

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