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Homage: Mega Designer Massimo Vignelli Leaves Modernist Design Legacy

May 30, 2014
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The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against ugliness. — the late Massimo Vignelli

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Music Commentary: Help Make “Roadrunner” the Official Rock Song of Massachusetts

May 30, 2014
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Bay Staters, be warned – we are living in a state without an official rock song. Luckily, if we pitch in, we can help the government solve this problem.

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Visual Arts Review: At MIT — Discovering Hans Scharoun, Architect and Visionary

May 27, 2014
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German architect Hans Scharoun’s compelling story, as both a man and an artist navigating perilous times, has been neglected (aside from architectural historians and seriously informed students) until relatively recently.

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TV Review: “Mad Men” Mid-Season Finale — Enjoyable, But Part of an Annoying Waiting Game

May 27, 2014
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It’s sort of like someone snatching the epic novel you’re a few chapters from the end of out of your hands and subsequently run off cackling into the sunset, only to allow you to finish it in a year.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 25, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Concert Review: “The Monkees” — Pop Heavyweights Still Guaranteed to Raise a Smile

May 24, 2014
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Michael Nesmith’s proto-Americana songs had aged the least—listen to the jangly guitar and stream-of-conscious lyric on “Tapioca Tundra” and you’d swear that was where R.E.M. got the idea.

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Album Review: Joey Pizza Slice’s “Deli Days/Sontava Nights” — Depressive Lo-Fi Pop Done Right

May 22, 2014
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The tunes on Joey Pizza Slice’s new LP are personal enough to leave many listeners scratching their heads, asking “Is this guy for real?”

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Fuse Movie Review: Boston’s MFA Presents a Film Festival of Colorful Song and Dance

May 20, 2014
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Boston’s MFA should be congratulated for screening these Technicolor musicals in way that does wondrous justice to their eye-popping colors.

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Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures

May 20, 2014
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Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.

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Fuse Concert Review: New England Phonographers Union Pump It Up

May 19, 2014
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At last — industrial music made by real industrial machines played in a real industrial setting.

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