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Music Interview: Chris Difford of Squeeze—on Being “At-Odds”

December 8, 2015
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Friends since childhood, composer Tilbrook and lyricist Difford formed Squeeze in 1977; there have been two full-fledged breakups and reunions since then.

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Film Review: “Men of the Cloth”—Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man

December 7, 2015
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Director Vicki Vasilopoulos has masterfully crafted a documentary about tailors, clothing, and the painstaking search for excellence.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Frank Stella: A Retrospective”—Admiration and Abhorrence Intertwined

December 7, 2015
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Now on the cusp of nine decades, Frank Stella is dedicated to visual experimentation, a kind of controlled and aesthetic atom-smashing,

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Fuse Coming Attractions: December 6 through 15—What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 6, 2015
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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: “Out of My Hand”—A Landmark Film From Liberia That Lacks Drama

December 5, 2015
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The protagonist’s confrontation with his past barbarity is far and away the most compelling part of Out of My Hand.

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Cultural Commentary: After Three Decades, The End of Live Jazz at Boston’s Top of the Hub

December 4, 2015
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Top of the Hub was one of the very rare places in the country where ordinary folks would bump into jazz every night.

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Film Review: Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”—A Long and Sexy Sermon

December 4, 2015
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Chi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.

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Classical Music Review: BEMF’s “Acis and Galatea”—Glorious Entertainment

December 1, 2015
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The music was so extraordinarily pleasant and well performed that the two-hour production breezed by.

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Theater Review: “Hard and Fast”—But Not All That Clear

December 1, 2015
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Jess Foster’s clever script takes the trope of “cars are like women” to its logical, though unexpected, extreme.

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TV Review: “Flesh and Bone” — Once Again, Ballet as a Crazed Deathmatch

November 30, 2015
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If the creators of Flesh and Bone want to whip upanother trite soap opera, that’s their prerogative. But hush about the “realism.”

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