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Concert and Album Review: Fernando Huergo Big Band, “Relentless”

October 5, 2024
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If Fernando Huergo’s band of A-list Boston players sounded especially inspired, it was certainly in no small part due to what he was giving them to play.

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Book Review: “We Have Never Been Woke” — Privileged Sleepers

October 4, 2024
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Musa Al-Gharbi’s provocative book undercuts the left elite by pointing out the hypocrisy of its well intentioned rhetoric. The “woke” live comfortable lives because of the very inequities they condemn.

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Book Review: “Creation Lake” — A Jumble of Fact and Whimsical Imagination

October 4, 2024
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Rachel Kushner’s latest novel is mélange of vignettes, stand-alone or linked flash essays, and portentous bits of wisdom.

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Film Reviews: New York Film Festival — A Trio of Memorable Recent Restorations

October 4, 2024
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The New York Film Festival’s Revivals section offers a preview of valuable recent restorations. Even if these superb movies don’t all make it to American theaters, they’re likely to pop up on physical media or VOD.

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Film Review: “Joker: Folie à Deux” — “Morning in America” as Musical Nightmare

October 3, 2024
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This is a work of towering, masterful, sustained cinematic rage set at the dawn of the Reagan Era.

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October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

October 3, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 3, 2024
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This week’s poem: Sam Cha’s “Ode: a portrait of god as a photograph of Gaza”

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Design Review: “Polinature” — A Plug-in Vertical Garden That Fights Climate Change

October 2, 2024
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Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.

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Concert Review: In Austin, Texas — Three Major Acts of State-of-the-Art Progressive Jazz

October 2, 2024
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It was all intense, bracing, and urgent jazz in Austin last week. I don’t know how all y’all spoiled New Yorkers keep your heads from exploding.

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Coming Attractions: October 1 through 14 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 1, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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