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Film Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — A Powerful “Bulgarian Rhapsody”

November 6, 2015
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The history lesson embedded in Bulgarian Rhapsody is subtle yet also packs a wallop.

Fuse Film Review: At the Boston Film Festival—A Delicious “Dough”

November 4, 2015
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Dough contains plenty of tasty charm and passion.

Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957”

November 3, 2015
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Other than a highway sign not much remains, but the artistic legacy of Black Mountain College is truly indelible.

Film Review/Commentary: “Goodnight Mommy”—We Have Met the Enemy and He is Ours

November 1, 2015
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Two recent horror films know what they are doing: they are intelligent, clever, original, and genuinely disturbing.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 1, 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.

Book Review: Victorian Fairy Tales—Sprites Against Realism

October 30, 2015
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What seems to animate many of the fairy tales is a heady freedom from the constraints of realism.

Rock Interview: Ian Anderson on “Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera”

October 30, 2015
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“This is JETHRO TULL!, expressed proudly in bold terms. And then ‘the rock opera,’ said in an embarrassed whisper.”

Dance Review: Monkeyhouse and the Ties That Bind

October 27, 2015
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I missed the trademark orange Dynel wigs and the zany non sequiturs of the past, but Karen Krolak and the crew were still playing with fractured language.

Film Review: “Steve Jobs”—Computer Crash

October 27, 2015
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Steve Jobs is a one-dimensional film about a terminally self-absorbed character.

Book Review: “Neurotic Beauty”—Japanese Therapeutics

October 27, 2015
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Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.

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