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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 8, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, and author events for the coming week.

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Film Review: “Casa Grande” – When the 1% Takes a Tumble

March 7, 2015
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In this powerful film, writer-director Fellipe Barbosa asks a number of pointed political and social questions about traumatic transitions.

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Fuse Rock Review: The Current Gang of Four — Cut-rate, Yes, But Not That Bad

March 7, 2015
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Ok, this isn’t the Gang of Four of yore — but There’s still something to be said for getting drunk on cheap wine.

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Film Review: “Obra” — A Dark Visual Dynamo from Brazil

March 7, 2015
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The enduring curse of the past is not a new subject; it is Obra’s compelling visuals that make it special.

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Book Review: Ned Beauman’s Unconventional “Glow”

March 6, 2015
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Glow is a witty, accessible, but at times overly ambitious journey through the world of exotic drugs, the chemistry of romance, and the insidious effects of globalization.

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Book Review: Colm Tóibin On Elizabeth Bishop

March 5, 2015
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In some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.

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Dance Review: Where Minimalism Went

March 4, 2015
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Minimalism doesn’t make narrative or emotional demands. It shows you a surface, and if there’s anything below the surface, you draw your own conclusions.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 1, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, and author events for the coming week.

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Book Review: “Medieval Christianity” — All Too Human

February 28, 2015
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Harvard Divinity School professor Kevin Madigan’s scholarly but always compelling exposition of the evolution of the church will spark introspection among practicing Christians.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — A Respectable “Lady of the Camellias”

February 28, 2015
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What I didn’t see opening night was passion. The characters, all living on the edge of respectability, are comfortable in their own world, but as individuals most of them don’t assert themselves.

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