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Coming Attractions: October 22 through November 7 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 22, 2023
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Jazz Album Review: Guitarist John Scofield — Quality Time with “Uncle John’s Band”

October 22, 2023
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A stirring trio date featuring John Scofield on guitar with Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums.

Concert Review: Bill Frisell at the Groton Hill Music Center — Creating a World

October 22, 2023
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Bill Frisell fans were blessed to hear the Denver-bred, Berklee-schooled guitar savant at a massive multi-space facility that might offer the state’s most awe-inspiring concert hall.

Television Review: “The Devil on Trial” — A Demon for a Client?

October 21, 2023
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Despite a slow first half, “The Devil on Trial” picks up speed and suggests that the truth can be more infuriating than fiction.

Short Fuse Podcast #64: Literary Criticism — Magnitude of Thought

October 21, 2023
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Elizabeth Howard talks to “Book Post” editor and critic Ann Kjellberg about the value of literary criticism as a form of sustained reflection.

London Film Festival, Dispatch #3: What Is Love

October 20, 2023
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Closing out coverage of the London Film Festival: films from Catherine Breillat, Michael Winterbottom, Luna Carmoon, Robert Morgan, and Daniel Kokotajlo.

Jazz Album Review: Anna Webber’s “Shimmer Wince” — A Remarkable Menagerie of Sound

October 20, 2023
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Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.

Book Review: “Lou Reed: The King of New York” — The First Monarch of Indie/Alt Rock

October 19, 2023
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Will Hermes reveres Lou Reed’s music, and he expounds on his love in this voluminous, well-researched biography.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 19, 2023
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This week’s poem: Heather Treseler’s “Ghostology.”

Arts Remembrance: The Passage of a Giant — Carla Bley, 1936 – 2023

October 18, 2023
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Carla Bley was an original. We will never see her like again. It is a great blessing that she left so much music.

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