Glenn Rifkin

Fuse Food Review: The Gothic — A Destination for Locavores Exploring the Mid-Maine coast

July 29, 2015
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Matthew Kenney, chef/owner of The Gothic, bills himself as “the world’s leading plant-based chef” — he is on a crusade to remake the future of food.

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Concert Review: Pianist Marc-André Hamelin at the Shalin Liu Performance Center

June 21, 2015
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Marc-André Hamelin, one of the world’s elite pianists, held the packed Shalin Liu Performance Center enthralled.

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Album Review: James Taylor’s “Before This World” — Still Singing Pretty

June 15, 2015
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Before This World is a remarkable collection of what James Taylor calls “agnostic hymns, recovery songs and love songs” that stands up to the best of his work.

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Music Interview: Inside Veteran Folk Singer Tom Paxton

June 9, 2015
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“My idol was Pete Seeger, even before I moved to the Village. He still is.”

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Fuse Food Review: Club Passim’s New Restaurant

April 4, 2015
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Club Passim’s vegetarian days are over — the new menu is all about “globally inspired New American cuisine.”

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Restaurant Review: Woods Hill Table in West Concord — An Exemplary Farm-to-Table Experience

April 1, 2015
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Woods Hill Table is the 153-seat culmination of a vision that encompasses the locavore movement in impressive fashion.

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Concert Review: “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn” — A Welcome Holiday Tradition

December 15, 2014
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A Christmas Celtic Sojourn is uplifting and spirited fun; the performers are having at least as good a time as the audience, and that is always a winning formula.

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Fuse Film Review: A Mouth-Watering And Hilarious “Trip to Italy”

September 3, 2014
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon comic routines are cerebral but brilliantly funny, mostly due to the dueling impersonations that are an inevitable part of every meal along their journeys.

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Theater Review: “Finding Neverland” — A Lucrative Broadway Fantasy in Progress

August 15, 2014
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The $3 million American Repertory Theater version of Finding Neverland remains a work in progress, a “tryout” as it has been dubbed, and it feels just like that.

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Film Review: “The Hundred-Foot Journey” — Foodie Flapdoodle

August 11, 2014
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Given that this film was directed by Lasse Hallström, who gave us the gastronomically wonderful Chocolat, it is hard to understand how things could have gone so wrong.

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