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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week (Updated)

October 4, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

Music Feature: Celebrity Series’ Street Pianos Make for Sunny Days

October 4, 2013
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Mother Nature likes pianos.

Theater Review: “The Jungle Book” — A Satisfying Entertainment

October 2, 2013
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Mary Zimmerman’s Jungle Book may not have the same kind of compelling narrative and emotional depth as her Bernstein/Voltaire tour de force, but there’s plenty of magic in this Disney/Kipling mash-up.

Film Review: “Who Takes Away the Sins: Witnesses to Clergy Abuse” — Anatomy of a Cover-Up

October 1, 2013
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It’s heartening to see a major Catholic institution like Boston College get behind a documentary that, without mercy, attacks the Boston Diocese for its sinful coverup of priest abuse of children.

Theater Feature: Israeli Stage Presents a Deliciously Amusing “Oh God”

October 1, 2013
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Oh God meets all of Guy Ben-Aharon’s criteria for Israeli Stage.

TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Ends Well — “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

September 30, 2013
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Over the past five years of Breaking Bad, the chemistry of fate has run its course.

Visual Arts Review: “Dilated Biography — Contemporary Cuban Narratives”

September 30, 2013
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Curator Jorge Antonio Fernández succeeds, for the most part, in creating a stimulating show that is held together by formal and conceptual associations, not just political concerns.

Theater Preview: When Puppets Go Hungry

September 29, 2013
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Hunger is hunger but each hungry person experiences it in his or her own way. That insight is at the heart of the remarkable, socially engaged toy theater production Who’s Hungry.

Jazz Album Review: Fred Hersch and Julian Lage — Gloriously “Free Flying”

September 29, 2013
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One of the remarkable aspects of these duets is that almost nowhere is either player — Fred Hersch or Julian Lage — reduced to mere comping.

Album Review: Blitzen Trapper Holds Steady with “VII”

September 28, 2013
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Overall, VII finds Blitzen Trapper maintaining its musical muscle even though its lyricist occasionally struggles.

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