Arts Fuse Editor
A wide-ranging slate of documentary features on display in this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston. Here’s a sampling of a few of the standout films coming up.
What starts off as a rollicking entertainment ends with a flourish of profundity.
Wild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.
This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.
Somerville’s Union Square hosts four chocolate companies, in renovated warehouses.
Sutra was a curious mix of reverence and virtuosity, lavish movement and intricate music — over an hour’s worth of changing forms. I found it intriguing and untrackable.
The motto on the Morningside Music Studios web site is “keep the groove in your life.” Words to live by.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
“The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist” is a rare transformative piece of public art.
Jazz Commentary: Survival of a Scene in Boston
Local music venues — especially those with “off” music like jazz — are caught in a vice, with real estate escalation on one side and corporate-dominated digital technology on the other.
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