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Coming Attractions: November 18 Through December 4 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 18, 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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Film Remembrance: William Goldman — Master Storyteller, Hollywood Legend

November 16, 2018
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William Goldman was known as a consummate Hollywood insider who nevertheless maintained a reputation as a literary-minded purveyor of exceptional cinema.

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Jazz CD Review Round-Up: Christopher Hollyday, Chris Pasin, Abigail Rockwell, and Jake Ehrenreich

November 15, 2018
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Christopher Hollyday’s Telepathy is a keeper, Chris Pasin’s Ornettiquette is an excellent outing, Jake Ehrenreich’s A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs is uneven, and for some long winter nights Abigail Rockwell’s Autumn Noir might be just the ticket.

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Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham — Music Makes It

November 15, 2018
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John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.

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Television Review: “Jane Fonda in Five Acts”

November 15, 2018
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The more we hear Jane Fonda’s homilies about needing to be “whole” and “self-actualize” the more her personal journey sounds more like a succession of carefully calculated branding exercises.

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Opera CD Review: A Magnificent 1841 French Grand Opera Comes Alive Again

November 14, 2018
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Yes, the first-ever recording of a opera that is as wonderful as Berlioz and Wagner said it is.

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Book Review/Interview: Talking “Upstate” With Critic James Wood

November 13, 2018
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“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”

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Book Review: Napoleon — Savior or Hitler?

November 12, 2018
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British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.

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Music Review: Kamasi Washington — A Vibrant Taste of Heaven and Earth

November 11, 2018
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Kamasi Washington’s music connected viscerally with a Royale audience that was packed with young people — or at least way younger than those normally seen at a jazz concert.

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Theater Review: “Hype Man” — Indispensable Viewing

November 10, 2018
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Hype Man is a complex and challenging treatment of race relations in the U.S.– indispensable viewing in these days of Trump.

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