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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.

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.

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.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 18, 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.

Theater Review: “Rain Dogs” — A Humdinger of a Tribute to the Music of Tom Waits

May 17, 2014
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Having glittery, Bettie Page-y young women clad in leather and thongs undulate to music by Tom Waits is pretty much guaranteed to work.

Concert Review: Barry Gibb on Tour — The Bee Gees Redux

May 16, 2014
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Though Barry Gibb performed most of his life with the Bee Gees, he was surprisingly un-slick as a showman.

Concert Review: Jazz Giant Sun Ra at 100 — Space Conquers Time

May 16, 2014
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Ken Schaphorst and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts made the case for Sun Ra as an egyptologist (who claimed to be from Saturn).

Book Review: “A Place in the Country” — A Heady Tour of W.G. Sebald Country

May 15, 2014
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It seems deeply appropriate that a superb book of essays by W.G. Sebald about his favorite writers should be his swan song.

Concert Review: Television — Still in its Own Orbit After Thirty Years

May 14, 2014
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The band was still Television and often as not, still magnificent.

Film Review: “Growing Cities” — Searching for America’s Urban Farmland

May 13, 2014
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Although “Growing Cities” plays a bit like a home movie, it at least scores points for enthusiasm.

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