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Concert Review: Herbie Hancock at the Boch Center Wang Theatre

October 30, 2025
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 At 85, Herbie Hancock can still funk it up.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 30, 2025
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The week’s poem: Shira Dentz’s “Foretold”

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Visual Arts Review: A Glitch in the System — American Artist’s Homage to Octavia Butler

October 30, 2025
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Some critics will consider the work in this show extreme, but one of the many strengths of American Artist lies in the fact that they draw on Butler’s prescient dystopian vision, elements of which are becoming a reality.

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Children’s Book Reviews: The Natural World and Beyond

October 30, 2025
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Three beautiful new picture books for kids about nature, color, and gardening will inspire, inform, and delight.

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Concert Review: Violinist James Ehnes and Pianist Andrew Armstrong in Recital

October 29, 2025
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Both players are long-time friends and recital partners; the pair thrive on tackling big stylistic and musical contrasts that are tied together by performances that were both interpretively thoughtful and technically accomplished.

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Arts Remembrance: Jack DeJohnette — As Much a Colorist as a Drummer

October 29, 2025
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Jack DeJohnette – who died this week at age 83 of congestive heart failure – lorded over his entire kit with loose but incisive strokes to tightly tuned drum heads and cymbals.

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Woodstock Film Festival, Dispatch #2: Wonder, Work, and Whimsy

October 28, 2025
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A quartet of films whose topics range from modern love and protecting animals to family dysfunction and a who-done-it with a vintage doll detective on the case.

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Concert Review: Pianist Daniil Trifonov and Baritone Matthias Goerne Perform Schubert’s “Swan Songs”

October 28, 2025
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For those who love Schubert, this was a memorable occasion indeed.

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Television Review: “DMV” — An Uninspired Sitcom Stuck in Neutral

October 27, 2025
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When will there be a sitcom worthy of Tim Meadows’ talents?

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Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?

October 27, 2025
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Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.

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