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Film Review: “American Sniper” — Keep Telling Yourself … It’s Only a Movie

January 27, 2015
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American Sniper is classic Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry vs the bad guys, and the bad guys all look like ‘them.’

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Film Review: “Inherent Vice” — Like an Acid Trip, Secondhand

January 25, 2015
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Inherent Vice is a giddy, trippy potpourri that tries to make a virtue of never quite settling on what kind of story it wants to tell.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 25, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.

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Concert Review: Cellist Johannes Moser joins the BSO Out on the High Seas

January 24, 2015
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Johannes Moser is a cellist I have admired for some years.

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Fuse Film Review: “Selma” — Civil Rights By the Numbers

January 22, 2015
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Selma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 18, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.

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Rock Concert Review: Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven — For the Professorial Class

January 17, 2015
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This was the sixth consecutive year the double bill of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven hit the Middle East on MLK weekend; it was sold-out as usual.

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Film Review: “Foxcatcher” — Sports and the Pathology of the 1%

January 15, 2015
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Of all the cinematic indictments of the 1% that have flooded the multiplex in the wake of the financial crisis, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher stands as one of the most understated.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Telling Anonymity of Political Street Art

January 12, 2015
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Highlighting the identity of artists is essential in art world journalism, but it appears to be unimportant when reporting on the artistic contributions to political street demonstrations.

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Fuse Concert Review: “Hot Stove, Cool Music” — A Salute to Boston’s Vintage Years

January 12, 2015
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Intentionally or not, much of the “Hot Stove, Cook Music” concert was flashback to the Boston scene 20 years ago .

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