Arts Fuse Editor
This week’s column is all about cozy comfort, decadent distractions, and heart-melting romance.
The program was a delight, especially for those, like this reviewer, who, for years, have yearned to visit Paris again. Aurally, Skylark flew us there.
Rossini’s one-act opera from 1812 rings fresh changes on a host of comic-opera clichés.
This Craft reissue is welcome for the presence and distinctness of its sound, and for the state-of-the-art playing. Art Pepper will be going through my head for days.
Bret Primack explains how YouTube has basically nuked the Jazz Video Guy channel. And the same thing is happening to other content creators.
A new recording of Benjamin Britten’s remarkable 1954 opera packs considerable ghostly punch.
The magazine is excited to announce its new feature “Poetry at The Arts Fuse,” which will present a poem every Thursday.
This is the event’s 48th year, making the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival the longest running genre festival in the country.

Book Review: “What’s Prison For?” — A Case for Building Trust and Mutual Respect
In this valuable and necessary book Bill Keller argues that American prisons need to accept that men and women don’t stop being human beings because they’re in the custody of the state.
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