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Film Feature: IFFB 2018 — Documentary Preview

April 27, 2018
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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.

Film Review: “Three Identical Strangers” — at the IFFBoston

April 26, 2018
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What starts off as a rollicking entertainment ends with a flourish of profundity.

Television Review: “Wild Wild Country” — Scruffily Corporatized Love-in

April 25, 2018
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Wild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.

Book Review: “Bible Nation” — The Misleading Religion of Hobby Lobby

April 24, 2018
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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.

Food Feature: Somerville — Chocolate Capital of Massachusetts?

April 24, 2018
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Somerville’s Union Square hosts four chocolate companies, in renovated warehouses.

Dance Review: Alonzo King — Disembodied

April 23, 2018
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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.

Jazz Preview: Arlington Jazz Festival — An Ambitious Line-up

April 23, 2018
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The motto on the Morningside Music Studios web site is “keep the groove in your life.” Words to live by.

Coming Attractions: April 22 through May 8– What Will Light Your Fire

April 22, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Visual Arts Review: London’s Fourth Plinth — A Brilliant Public Artwork in Central London

April 21, 2018
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“The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist” is a rare transformative piece of public art.

Jazz Commentary: Survival of a Scene in Boston

April 21, 2018
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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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