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Jazz/Book Review: Saxophonist Dexter Gordon — Portrait of a Sophisticated Giant

December 5, 2018
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Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.

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Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — The Warrior Femmes

December 4, 2018
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Boston Dance Theater’s four pieces seemed to counter female stereotypes but raised limited alternatives.

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Film Review: “Becoming Astrid” — An Ode to Perseverance

December 3, 2018
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This is one of the year’s most heartwarming films; it is not sentimental, but projects a profound sense of resilient joy at its heart.

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Book Review: “America: The Farewell Tour” — Has Our Ship Already Sailed?

December 2, 2018
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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

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Coming Attractions: December 2 Through 18 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 2, 2018
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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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Jazz CD Review: The Kelly Green Trio — Flexing Musical Muscles

November 30, 2018
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Kelly Green and her trio are essentially mainstream players, but they explore a lot of challenging territory within that framework.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Orson Welles — “The Other Side of the Wind”

November 29, 2018
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The Other Side of the Wind may inspire brooding melancholy in some, but it’s also pretty damned fine.

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Visual Arts Review: Eugène Delacroix at the Met — An Uneasy Fit

November 26, 2018
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Perhaps Eugène Delacroix is best regarded as a leader of the resistance to academic art, part of the transition to impressionism.

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Classical Music Review: “Widma” — An Imaginative Polish Experiment

November 25, 2018
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This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.

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Book Review: “Love in the New Millennium” — Inscrutable Passion

November 25, 2018
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This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.

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