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Visual Arts Review: “Burning Down the House” — A Female Chorus of Concern

January 21, 2024
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These five artists do indeed make their voices heard. They shine as soloists, and their messages are only amplified when they join into a chorus of multi-part harmony. 

Film Review: “Origin” — A Map of Human Suffering

January 20, 2024
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The breadth and intimacy of “Origin”‘s vision — the personal becomes the historical — is stunning, a searing portrait of collective trauma and the dark ideas that propel it.

Visual Arts Review: “Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice” — Religion and Rights

January 20, 2024
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The overall impression of this valuable exhibit is to remind us that religious conviction is by no means synonymous with conservatism.

Film Review: “Suitable Flesh” — Pretty on the Inside

January 19, 2024
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For all of “Suitable Flesh”’s indulgence in B-movie schlock and gross-out gore, the film’s pulsating sexuality becomes its strongest asset.

Television Review: “Death and Other Details” — Adrift at Sea

January 18, 2024
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Mocking the wealthy with a homicidal intrigue tossed in doesn’t always make for a fun watch.

Book Review: “Master Lovers” — An Inventive and Intelligent Fictional Memoir

January 18, 2024
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“Master Lovers” is written in a lucid, personable style, and the fictional scenes —  David Winner’s recreations of history and imagined trysts — are deft, believable, and vividly imagined.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 18, 2024
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This Week’s Poem: Joyce Peseroff’s “ARS POETICA”

Book Review: Jack Kerouac’s “Pic” — Last But Not Least

January 17, 2024
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In “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac voiced a longing to be “other.” He achieves this transfiguration in “Pic.”

Concert Preview: O Positive and Three Colors — Together Again with Purpose

January 16, 2024
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O Positive and Three Colors will reunite at the Paradise Rock Club this Friday for “With a Little Help from My Friends: a Benefit Concert for a Friend in Need.”

Book Review: “Hedged” — How Private Equity Destroyed the Newspaper Business

January 16, 2024
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Newspapers are still our most reliable source of local journalism. Private equity, though, is squeezing the life out of newsrooms as greedy owners cash in.

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