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Film Review: “Welcome to Me” — Me and TV, The American Dream

May 8, 2015
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It is Kristen Wiig’s committed performance, along with director Shira Piven’s skill at comic timing, that grounds the satiric comedy’s absurd premise.

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Film Review: “À la Vie” — A Flawless Study of Time and Trauma

May 8, 2015
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À la Vie, screening as part of the 18th Annual Jewish Film Festival, is easily the best film I have seen so far this year.

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Concert Review: Entrancing and Surprising — Todd Rundgren Goes “Global”

May 8, 2015
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A cursory scan of audience reviews on the Ticketmaster website suggests that Rundgren’s current tour was disappointing his fans on a scale probably not seen in rock music since Bob Dylan went to England in 1966.

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Concert Review: Radius Ensemble’s “Insight” — As Probing As Ever

May 7, 2015
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Radius Ensemble’s final performance of the season touched on examples of musical fantasy, worldly angst, and spiritual transcendence.

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Film Interview: Rory Kennedy defends “Last Days in Vietnam”

May 7, 2015
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Not everybody loves the documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Director Rory Kennedy responds to some of the criticism.

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Fuse Dance Review: The Bang Group and Elders Ensemble — Grownups

May 6, 2015
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I wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.

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Fuse Commentary: Five Minutes With NEA Chairman Jane Chu

May 6, 2015
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God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.

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Fuse Film Review: Jewishfilm 2015 — Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut, Sometimes You Don’t

May 6, 2015
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Both of these entries in Jewishfilm 2015 have their entertaining moments, but the movies ultimately fail to deliver.

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Theater Review: “Scenes From An Adultery” — Where’s the Sex?

May 5, 2015
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Ronan Noone’s allegedly frisky sex farce is bloodless.

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Poetry Review: Peter Gizzi’s “In Defense of Nothing” — Poetry as the Fruit of Bewilderment

May 5, 2015
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Peter Gizzi is a master at allowing his poetic language to summon its own range of meanings, rather than blatantly declaring them to the reader.

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