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Fuse Interview: The Creative Faith of Damien Jurado

January 20, 2014
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“With this new record, we said we were going to use every influence I have, we’re basically going to rip the brakes out of the car and just push this thing down the hill.”

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Concert Review: The Pixies at the Orpheum

January 19, 2014
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The past weekend’s Orpheum show — sold out for weeks beforehand, and drawing an impressive range of multi-generational hipsters — wasn’t the same old thing for The Pixies.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 17, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater coming up this week.

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Book Review: “Back to Back” — A Powerful Portrait of East German Trauma, Personal and Political

January 11, 2014
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Using her family’s history as a springboard, Julia Franck has created exemplary figures forced to navigate the treacherous shoals of her country’s history.

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Concert Review: Leon Russell and Hot Tuna — Aging Gracefully on the Margins

January 11, 2014
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This week’s show found both acts — Leon Russell and Hot Tuna — kicking—with huskier voices and slower tempos, to be sure.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 10, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: London’s “Paul Klee: Making Visible” — Endlessly Inventive

January 9, 2014
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Few artists in history have been as multifarious and prolific as Paul Klee – only Picasso and Ernst come to mind.

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Short Fuse: Quotes for the New Year

December 31, 2013
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Fuse Writer Harvey Blume supplies some quotations for the new year.

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Concert Review: Melissa Ferrick at Club Passim — A Welcome Glimpse of Her Hippie Side

December 30, 2013
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Melissa Ferrick joined the songwriting faculty at Berklee, where she dropped out as a student two decades ago. The Berklee influence may account for the increased craft in her songs,.

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Film Review: “The Wolf of Wall Street” — A Brilliant Vision of Greed Unleashed

December 27, 2013
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Bravura performances are provided by all involved, making Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” quite possibly the best film of the year.

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