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Dance Review: Revolution in Reverb – Bolshoi Postmodern in HD

February 29, 2016
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Introduced by gigantic moving set-pieces and robots with prison searchlights for eyes, Bolt often looks like poster art.

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Music Review: Jason Isbell, Laid-Back — More Country Than Country-Rock

February 29, 2016
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Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).

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Fuse Coming Attractions: February 28 Events

February 28, 2016
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This week’s Coming Attractions will be posted later today, but here are two events of note that are taking place today, Sunday, February 28.

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Fuse Oscar Predictions 2016 — Who Should Win? Who Will Win?

February 28, 2016
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Eight nominees? WTF, Academy? If you’re going to change the structure to allow ten nominees, then have ten nominees!

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Visual Arts: Stunning “Intersections” at Peabody Essex Museum

February 25, 2016
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In a period of radicalism and terrorism, this installation serves as a beacon for remembering the beauty of the best of Islamic creative culture.

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Theater Review: “1984” — It’s Later Than You Think

February 24, 2016
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1984‘s theatrical vision of authoritarianism in action is not for the faint of heart.

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Arts Commentary: Reviving Memories of BSO Superstar Conductor Serge Koussevitzky

February 22, 2016
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Hardly any of the under-60s generation can tell you who Serge Koussevitzky was or what his legacy consists of.

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Coming Attractions: February 21 through March 1 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

February 21, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Film Review: “The Witch” — Mother Nature’s a Bitch and So am I

February 20, 2016
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The Witch‘s brief jolts of violence seem perfectly calibrated to knock us out of our seats..

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Dance Review: Sampling the Spectrum — BB@Home, Boston Ballet School

February 20, 2016
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Sunday afternoon’s hourlong program in BB@Home series took us from the nineteenth century to this very minute.

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