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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 14, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater for the coming  week.

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Music Feature: Best Jazz of the Year 2014

December 13, 2014
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Be prepared for some challenging, off-the-beaten path choices, including a new tradition.

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Music Review: Having an Aimee Mann Christmas

December 11, 2014
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For those of us who love Christmas music, Aimee Mann and company showed how to do it right: a lot of lovely songs and festive spirits, not a lot of sticky sentiment.

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Visual Arts Feature: Cambridge’s Magazine Beach — A Fascinating View of Its History

December 10, 2014
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As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.

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Music Feature: Mr. Airplane Man — Return Flight

December 9, 2014
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Mr. Airplane Man was beloved in the local blues world and the Abbey Lounge garage-rock circuit. They play their first local shows in nine years this week.

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Film Review: “Bad Hair” — A Very Good Movie

December 8, 2014
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Mariana Rondón’s Bad Hair is a beautifully acted film about the stultifying pressures on downtrodden lives.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 7, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, theater, and author readings for the coming  week.

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Book Review: Émile Zola’s “The Conquest of Plassans” — “Tartuffe” Gone Realpolitik

December 5, 2014
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Entertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.

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Theater Review: “The Little Prince” Dazzles at The New Rep

December 1, 2014
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If you want to expand your heart and mind this holiday season, you couldn’t do better than go to The Little Prince.

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Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Loitering” — Slam-Bang Ghost Stories

December 1, 2014
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Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.

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