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Theater Review: “Nassim” — Word Play

October 11, 2024
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The script is an experiment, a (sometimes) witty lecture on language. But it doesn’t work dramatically.

Film Review: “The Apprentice” — Marinating in Malignance

October 11, 2024
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It’s Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Roy Cohn that hangs in this not-very-good movie like a Rembrandt on the cracked plaster of a La Quinta suite by the airport.

Book Review: “The Second Shot” — An Incomplete Story

October 10, 2024
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This memoir is, in part, Gene Yu’s effort to give credit where credit is due for his rescue of a woman kidnapped by the Jihadist terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.

Book Review: “Not Even Nominated” — They Shoulda Been Oscar Contenders

October 10, 2024
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Critic John DiLeo argues that even the Academy Awards can make mistakes. And, in the process, he constructs an alternate history of who should or should not have been Oscar nominees.

Musician Interview: At the Orpheum — Singer/Songwriter Warren Haynes Previews His Upcoming Album

October 9, 2024
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Legendary guitarist Warren Haynes talks about how his upcoming album, Million Voices Whisper, was put together and what it is like to perform in front of Boston crowds.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 9, 2024
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The week’s poem: Ben Berners-Lee’s “Early Harvest”

Television Review: “The Platform 2” — Junk Food

October 8, 2024
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Was another helping of “The Platform” necessary? Maybe. But only if it was done right — and this is half-baked sci-fi horror.

Book Review: “The Propagandist” — The Power of Flawed Memory

October 8, 2024
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Cecile Desprairies’ extraordinary work is a cross between the dispassionate inquiry of a historian and a family memoir whose author is searching for catharsis at the end of her attempt to understand her family’s place in the Nazi-collaborationist narrative. 

Book Review: “The Year That Made the Musical” Gets the Year Wrong

October 7, 2024
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William A. Everett’s book is well-researched but based on a problematic premise.

Concert Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band — Still Growing

October 7, 2024
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Tedeschi Trucks Band demonstrated the difference between actively engaging in a musical tradition versus paying tribute to it.

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