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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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Fuse Coming Attractions: November 29 to December 8—What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 29, 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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Concert Review: The Flamin’ Groovies—A Half-Century in the Trenches of Coolness

November 27, 2015
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The Flamin’ Groovies in a nutshell — doubling as a rock institution and the best party band in town.

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Visual Arts Review: “Native Fashion Now”—Tradition and Cutting Edge, Superbly Balanced

November 27, 2015
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Even without museum commentary, Native Fashion Now is an important show – visually, socially, and politically.

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Fuse Film Review: “Trumbo”—Un-American Activities in Hollywood

November 27, 2015
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Trumbo is content to be a potted history lesson rather than a thought-provoking work of art.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Black Mountain College Exhibition at the ICA—A Conventional Look at the Unconventional

November 25, 2015
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I was not fully satisfied by the constraints of the exhibit, but I enjoyed seeing the work of those who made up the Black Mountain College community.

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