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Jazz Review: Guitarist Eric Hofbauer at the Lily Pad — A Mosaic of American Moods

September 20, 2013
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Jazz Guitarist Eric Hofbauer likes to deconstruct tunes and scramble them with free-associative juxtaposition.

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Film Review: “When Comedy Went to School” Flunks Out

September 19, 2013
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Oy gevalt! What a disappointment!

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

September 19, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Theater Review: Learning the Language of “Tribes”

September 19, 2013
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Dramatist Nina Raine probes the complex nature of tribal affinities, delicately examining how precariously communication depends on whether people listen to one another carefully, or not.

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Theater Review: A Stimulating “Tea for Three”

September 19, 2013
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Each different personality and monologue tells essentially the same story under their varying details, a thrice-told tale of wifely loyalty in the face of political husbandry.

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Poetry Review: The Dark of Love –The Poetry of Patrizia Cavalli

September 18, 2013
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If Patrizia Cavalli’s poetry is egocentric, even probably autobiographical, its narrator shows a detachment enabling her to observe herself from one remove, even when she describes herself in the élans of attraction.

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Film Review: Hitting Up Against “The Wall”

September 18, 2013
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I guess that’s the point. We all need to slow down, go back into nature, appreciate animal life, take long walks in the forest and in the mountains.

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Music Commentary: Free-For-Alls Bode Well for Jazz’s Future

September 17, 2013
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The obvious question is how can such a sprawling free festival – and the nightly fireworks shop that capped two of the nights – happen in such a cash-strapped city?

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Opera Review: A Triumphant Bang of a “Rienzi” From Odyssey Opera

September 17, 2013
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For their debut on Sunday, Odyssey Opera and conductor Gil Rose could hardly have picked a more spectacular, unfamiliar epic than they did.

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Rock Album Review: MGMT — Sonic Innovators Make a Misstep

September 16, 2013
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What is a problem, however, is that despite a fairly promising start, nothing at the beginning of MGMT can make up for the migraine inducing cacophony of pointless sound that is the album’s final half.

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