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This troupe from North Carolina has managed to hit all the right prog-rock targets with music that has sweep, depth, and texture while avoiding pretension.
The protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
The venerable Priscilla Beach Theatre was in danger of crumbling away — but it has been fully restored and is swinging into a summertime season of musicals.
“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.
The Theodore Baird House is a special place; the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Massachusetts.
Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty
So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”
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