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Film Review: Beautifully Empty – The Vacant Glamour of “Marty Supreme” and “Wuthering Heights”

February 24, 2026
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Both films are intermittently entertaining and display a high level of craft. They’re also blithely mediocre: mainly flash and filigree, vacuous at their center.

Book Review: “I Give You My Silence” is Vargas Llosa’s Final, Gentle Vals — A Swan Song of Art’s Quiet Power

February 24, 2026
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Mario Vargas Llosa’s final novel is a sweet, light story about art and idealism—and its ever-present opposite, cynicism.

Doc Talk: The 2026 Oscar Nominated Shorts — Documentaries Look at a World of Pain

February 23, 2026
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For a piercing reflection of the times, turn to the Oscars’ Best Documentary categories, in particular, the Best Documentary Shorts.

Music Feature: “Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-out” — How Music Meets the Moment

February 22, 2026
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The eighth iteration of “Which Side?” was a wild success, mixing musical genres from reggae to old-school Boston punk and punctuated by two moving (and brief) speakers.

Arts Appreciation: Tom Noonan — Remembering the Unforgettable

February 21, 2026
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We’ve lost some fantastic actors in the last few months. Tom Noonan was one of them. He was singularly talented, and unique, and leaves behind a remarkable legacy of good work. Seek it out.

Opera Album Review: “Judita” — A Stirring Modern Croatian Opera of Faith, Siege, and Beheading

February 21, 2026
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In its first commercial recording, Frano Parać’s “Judita” wrings compelling drama out of the biblical tale.

Book Review: Steven Underwood on the New Black Digital Renaissance — and Who Profits from It

February 21, 2026
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What you’ll think of this book will likely rest on what you make of the writer’s definition of Black digital Art.

Theater Review: “We Had a World” — Joshua Harmon’s Family Saga Revels in Wit and Wounds

February 20, 2026
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Joshua Harmon’s play offers numerous instances of familial turbulence, moments of rhapsodic relief and — to avoid spoilers — revelations of how guilt and hostility fuse to create irreparable fissures in the family dynamic.

Film Review: Men Ruin Everything in “The Love That Remains”

February 20, 2026
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Director Hlynur Pálmason’s latest is an ambitious, artful, but half-baked bagatelle.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

February 19, 2026
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This week’s poem: Nidia Hernández’s “Darkness”

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