Chhandika is dedicated to keeping the intricate and expressive art form of Kathak dance relevant to contemporary audiences, particularly to those who are not familiar with the Ramayana.
Fuse News Food Review: The Hungry Carp Has Brunch at Area Four
Knowledge-burdened Ph.D.’s and passionate young mothers, deep into their problems and their futures. You had to compete to converse.
Fuse News: The Authentic Weirdness of Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys
Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys specializes in modern psychedelic rock stripped of the jam-band baggage.
Music Commentary: The 15th Annual New England Metalfest — Blunt Over Pretty
I was curious to see how the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent events would filter into the fest. It began with my Facebook newsfeed displaying “Going to Worcester to blow off steam”-type messages.
Book Review: “The Virtues of Poetry” — Fascinating But Frustrating
James Longenbach’s ear for the nuances of diction, tone, stress, and the material aspects of poetry is so good, and his grasp of context and biography so assured, one wonders why the essays so often tie themselves into semantic and logical knots.
Book Review: A House of Many Doors — Gish Jen’s Tiger Writing
Moving restlessly between independence and interdependence in style and content, the lecture captures the changeling quality that Gish Jen associates with those who must creatively manage multiple cultural influences.
Fuse Remembrance: A Tribute to Roger Ebert
In the end, it is not the brilliance of his criticism or the strength of his prose for which we will remember Roger Ebert, but his humanity and his love—for film, for life, and, most of all, for people.
Judicial Review #10: Discussing the Point of Elizabeth Graver’s “The End of the Point”
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This session discusses Elizabeth Graver’s new novel The End of the Point, a multi-generational story about the trials and tribulations of a family that takes place between 1942 and 1999 in Ashaunt Point, a fictional beach community on Massachusetts’ seacoast.
Fuse Concert Review: Vladimir Jurowski Leads the London Philharmonic at Symphony Hall
The Celebrity Series of Boston offers top-notch artists and performing ensembles from around the world. With a Russian at the helm, it is no surprise that the Shostakovich Concerto would match or exceed expectations. The question was whether the Beethoven would.
Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination
Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.