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Theater Review: Fresh Ink’s “The Housekeeper” Keeps Things Neat

January 22, 2016
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The Housekeeper may be too conventional for its own good, but it is intelligently crafted and engagingly entertaining.

Classical Music Review: The Composer Focus Series Asks — “Mozart?”

January 21, 2016
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This performance of contemporary pieces inspired by Mozart came with a touch of the playfully interrogative.

Fuse Event: Time For a Fusical! An Awards Evening Whimsical and Electrical

January 20, 2016
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Be there for the birth of The Arts Fuse awards for outstanding contribution to the arts in New England.

Book Review: “Winter” — A Luminous Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

January 20, 2016
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This novel about Thomas Hardy becomes not only the story of an odd triangle, but also a meditation on the nature of art.

Book Review: “My Brooklyn Writer Friend” — Flashes in the Gloom

January 20, 2016
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Thanks in large part to brevity alone, the way these stories work is closer to poetry than to fiction.

Music Preview: Billy Childs Reimagines Laura Nyro

January 19, 2016
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Pianist/arranger/composer Billy Childs’s aim was to reimagine Nyro’s music.

Book Review: Stanley Fish Invites Readers to “Think Again” — With Chutzpah

January 19, 2016
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The New York Times columns selected for Think Again are engaging, provocative, maddening, humorous, and insightful.

Book Review: “The Butcher’s Trail” — A Masterful Account of Tracking Down Balkan War Criminals

January 18, 2016
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Anybody who has the good sense to pick up a copy of this book will find it instantly fascinating.

Music Preview: Lettuce — Creating the Funk of Tomorrow

January 18, 2016
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Lettuce is in the midst of a headlining tour; on January 22 the group will be back on its old stomping grounds in Boston..

Fuse Coming Attractions: January 17 through 26 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 17, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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