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Critical Commentary: Critical Injury at the “Boston Globe”

June 27, 2016
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The Globe tells us that we will be gaining compelling stories. What are we losing? Invitations to think seriously about artistic accomplishment and failure.

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Coming Attractions: June 26 through July 5— What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 26, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Film Review: “Tickled” — It’s Funny Until it Happens to You

June 24, 2016
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I can’t quite believe I’m cautioning viewers about the troubling nature of a documentary about tickling.

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Theater Review: “Driving Miss Daisy” — Bypassing the Deeper Resonance

June 24, 2016
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This production of Driving Miss Daisy isn’t about conflict and irresolution, but sentimental reassurance.

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Fuse News: “The Boston Globe” and WGBH Pull the Plug on Summer Arts Weekend

June 24, 2016
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“It was an amazing event and it was a blow to lose it. Free outdoor events that give people access to the arts are a rarity,”

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Fuse Film Review: “The Neon Demon” — It Was Beauty that Killed the Beast

June 23, 2016
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Director Nicholas Winding Refn has turned the dark side of modeling into a horror film, one that will no doubt generate plenty of controversy.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Blinders” — Choppy Political Satire

June 23, 2016
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Patrick Gabridge’s political satire presents some intriguing sci-fi-like concepts, but the play falls into too many narrative potholes.

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Book Review: The Librarians of Timbuktu — Action Heroes for Cultural Preservation

June 23, 2016
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Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.

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Theater Review: Bedlam’s Transfixing, Twinned Twelfth Nights

June 23, 2016
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There is nothing quite so exhilarating as watching Shakespeare done right – except, perhaps, watching one of his plays done right, twice.

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Fuse News/Tip: Quilt at Sinclair on June 24

June 22, 2016
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The wellsprings of Quilt’s sound are diverse – psychedelics, dream pop, Beach ‘n’ Beatle harmony groups, folk-rock and, I swear, punkoid racket at times.

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