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Fuse Film Review: This “Rocket” Soars at the Arlington International Film Festival

October 23, 2014
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The Rocket is an absorbing, visually stunning film with a backstory not quickly forgotten.

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Fuse Film Review: The Arlington International Film Festival Kicks off 4th Season with Boffo “Botso”

October 22, 2014
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Botso teaches children the joie de vivre of music and he is remarkably successful.

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Theater Review: “Alice” Grows Up in a Musical Wonderland

October 22, 2014
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Andrew Barbato’s play turns the Dormouse, the White Queen, and even the Red Queen (“Off with their heads!”) into nurturing Montessori teachers, concerned with comforting and reassuring an upset Alice.

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Fuse CD Review: Leonard Cohen’s Timeless Solutions to Our “Popular Problems”

October 21, 2014
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Cohen fans, rejoice – Popular Problems proves that the power and depth of his music haven’t faded now that the man singing them is officially an octogenarian.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

October 18, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual arts, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Book Review: Associate Justice Antonin Scalia — A Judge Who Refuses to Evolve

October 15, 2014
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Bruce Allen Murphy conveys the impression that Scalia knows how he feels on every issue before the briefs have been argued.

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Book Review: “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” — A Definitive Biography of One of Our Most Important Playwrights

October 14, 2014
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The biography is a remarkable read. It has all the hefty research you’d expect from a scholarly work, yet the story is told through prose fit for a great novel.

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Book Review: Merritt Tierce’s Smart and Ruthless “Love Me Back” — The Way We Live Now

October 13, 2014
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So much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives—dangling over a chasm.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

October 12, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Food Feature: The Culinary Arts Museum — A Mouth-Watering Experience

October 10, 2014
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The Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University reopened in September after a fifteen month hiatus to re-assess its inventory.

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