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Theater Review: “Million Dollar Quartet” — An Infectious Evening for Aging Baby Boomers

October 10, 2013
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The audience, mostly gray-haired seniors and aging baby boomers, walked out with smiles on their faces, as did I.

Fuse Theater Review: Two New Musicals Hit Broadway — “Big Fish” and “The Bridges of Madison County”

October 8, 2013
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Other than the teams that put together Rent and Wicked, film-makers have taken ‘creative’ control, turning Broadway into the land of retreads.

Theater Feature: Tennessee Williams Theater Festival 2013 — An Exemplary Year

October 8, 2013
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Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.

Arts Commentary: David Koch, WGBH Trustee — The Real God of Carnage?

October 8, 2013
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The opportunity to protest the presence of Tea Party mega-funder David Koch on the board of WGBH this Wednesday should not be missed by anyone who is interested in preserving the soul (and/or sanity) of public broadcasting.

Film Review: Artfully Defying “Gravity”

October 7, 2013
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Mexico’s Alfonso Cuarón is among the world’s finest, most versatile filmmakers, and someone who—knock on wood!– hasn’t yet directed a dud. GRAVITY is quite OK too, but in the second tier of his work.

Film Review: “Mother of George” — Depressingly Predictable

October 7, 2013
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Mother of George has garnered a rarer-than-rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics. Sorry to be the cynical spoiler.

Fuse Interview: Ian Frazier on the Comic Genius of Ring Lardner

October 6, 2013
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Ring Lardner wrote the funniest stand-alone sentence using the fewest words with which that feat can be done: “‘Shut up,’ he explained.”

Album Review: Oneohtrix Point Never’s “R Plus Seven” — Music That Draws You In

October 6, 2013
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With this LP, Daniel Lopatin has crafted an immaculate aural landscape that one can (and will want to) lose oneself in for hours.

Book Review: “The Stray Bullet” — William S. Burroughs Discovers His Ugly Spirit in Mexico

October 4, 2013
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Between the heroin, booze, and all else that Mexico had to offer, there was little to no time for William S. Burroughs to appreciate the culture of his adopted home.

Jazz Review: Sleek, Post-Modern Kneebody Delivers The New at Cafe 939

October 4, 2013
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Kneebody threw jazz into the stylistic blender and it popped out as something you probably haven’t heard before. The future sounds good.

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