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Book Review: Literary Critic James Wood and the Art of ‘Deep Noticing’

August 7, 2015
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We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.

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Rock Interview: Talking to a Post-Punk Legend — Bush Tetras’s Lead Singer Cynthia Sley

August 6, 2015
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The Bush Tetras — who’ve been on-off reunited since 1995, but haven’t hit Boston in nearly two decades — headline at the Sinclair this Saturday.

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Theater Review: “Unknown Soldier” — A Musical About the Power of Memory

August 5, 2015
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One of Unknown Soldier’s powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.

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Fuse Film Review: “The Stanford Prison Experiment” — It’s a Crime

August 3, 2015
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Even if you manage to overlook the objectionable ethics of the film, The Stanford Prison Experiment simply doesn’t work as a gripping drama.

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Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance’s “The Wanderer” — Beware the Brook

August 3, 2015
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Perhaps there’s no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 2, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: Dazzling “Architectural Allusions” at the deCordova

August 1, 2015
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This astutely curated exhibit explores the presence of architecture in contemporary sculpture.

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Theater Review: Three’s Isolation — “I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile”

July 31, 2015
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The play’s made up of domestic confrontations in which dramatist Suzanne Heathcote at times moves past moments of high tension at high speed.

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Fuse Film Review: Worth Traveling North to See the “Manglehorn”

July 28, 2015
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Al Pacino, playing the title character, delivers his most impressive performance since he starred in Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny a quarter century ago.

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Jazz Interview: Scott Robinson’s Out-of-This-World Sound Comes to the Newport Jazz Festival

July 28, 2015
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Scott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.

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