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Coming Attractions in Jazz: Late Summer/Early Autumn Festival Update

August 30, 2014
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is back, and from Northampton to Falmouth jazz festivals abound throughout the waning days of summer and the arrival of autumn.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Lawn on D — A New Park Paradigm in South Boston

August 29, 2014
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The Lawn on D is a breath of fresh cultural air in Boston.

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Fuse Book Review: “The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs” — Chronicling the Thrill of Invention

August 29, 2014
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On more than one occasion in The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs Greil Marcus argues that the original recordings of some of his picks don’t hold a candle to their cover versions.

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New York Theater Review Notes: Tennessee Williams and Hotsy Totsy Burlesque

August 28, 2014
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A charming, thoughtful one-man homage to writer Tennessee Williams and a hilarious burlesque spoof of TV’s Mad Men.

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Music Review: The Band X — Time for Some New Material

August 28, 2014
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X is simply too good to turn into a travelling punk museum

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Fuse News: Leonard Bernstein Sculpture Unveiled at BSO’s Tanglewood

August 27, 2014
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The bust of Leonard Bernstein was done by New England artist Penelope Jencks and commissioned by legendary film composer John Williams.

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Book Review: “Love Made Visible” — A Poignant Memoir About Life With a Boston “Renaissance Man”

August 27, 2014
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We become participants in a chapter of American art history that raises important questions about what fame means, how much a part luck plays, and how we treat our artists. .

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Television Review: “Orange is the New Black” — The Future of High Quality TV Drama?

August 27, 2014
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The men are portrayed as comically irrelevant — and this is refreshing given the phallocentric alpha-male angst that has been TV fodder so often before.

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Movie Review: Joanna Hogg’s “Exhibition” — Voyeurism Revisited

August 27, 2014
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Seeing Exhibition is like spying through a window on our most glamorous neighbors moving about their flat: it’s kind of kinky, kind of fun.

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Book Review: “Our Lady of the Nile” — Prefiguring Rwandan Genocide

August 26, 2014
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Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.

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