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Book Review: “Owned” — How to Buy Left-Wing Journalists

August 2, 2025
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Eoin Higgins’s “Owned” is a provocative take on our shifting politics and the instrumental role the media plays in how the superrich maintain power.

Doc Talk: “Architecton” — Ozymandias Revisited

August 2, 2025
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Deconstructing construction in “Architecton.”

Concert Review: TV on the Radio — A Reassuring Return

August 1, 2025
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Despite the passing years, personal loss, and shifting musical roles, Wednesday’s 80-minute set proved that everything’s indeed ok with TV on the Radio.

Opera Album Review: A World-Premiere Recording of a Sprightly Three-Act Operatic Comedy from 1882

August 1, 2025
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By Ralph P. Locke Joachim Raff’s energetic and characterful Die Eifersüchtigen hits its mark, in its first production ever. Joachim Raff: Die Eifersüchtigen (The Jealous Ones) Serafina Giannoni (Donna Rosa), Raìsa Ierone (Donna Bianca), Mirjam Fässler (Ninetta), Benjamin Popson (Don Claudio), Batthias Bein (Beppino), Balduin Schneeberger (Don Giulio), Martin Roth (Don Geronimo). Orchestra of Europe,…

August Short Fuses — Materia Critica

August 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

July 31, 2025
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The week’s poem: Micah Ballard’s “Waller Street”

Television Review: “Happy Gilmore 2” — Par for the Course

July 31, 2025
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As a legacy sequels “Happy Gilmore 2” one isn’t a hole-in-one, but it doesn’t roll into a sand trap either.

Concert Review: John Williams’ Piano Concerto Pays Homage to Jazz Legends

July 30, 2025
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John Williams’s concert music may be intended to enrich and edify, but there’s always room for a little fandom, particularly on occasions like this. At 93, and after a lifetime of firsts, the composer deserves every accolade.

Festival Review: Newport Folk 2025 — Signs of Fresh Hope

July 30, 2025
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Newport Folk Festival will likely never deliver cameos as ground shaking as those in 2022, when stars aligned for Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon to grace separate tributes. But it doesn’t have to, given that there’s so much talent already on site.

Theater Commentary: Boston Fall Theater Preview — Rinse and Repeat and Repeat and Repeat …

July 30, 2025
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My hunch is that not only theater critics but audiences will find the parade of tried and true tiresome.

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