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Film Commentary: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — The Most Serene Movie in Years

May 7, 2022
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This movie reminds us that — if there is any meaning to life at all — it’s what you bring to it, not what it brings to you.

Arts Remembrance: Homage to Gilbert Gottfried — One of America’s Most Original Stand-ups

April 25, 2022
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Comedian Gilbert Gottfried’s passing has hit me harder than most deaths of my celebrity faves: it’s a deprivation I can feel in my stomach.

Film Feature: Favorite Fiction Features Directed by Women — An International Poll

April 22, 2022
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The result of critics polled for their Ten Favorite Fiction Features Directed by Women — with the choices of Arts Fuse reviewers.

Music Commentary: Jazz, Ed Sullivan, and Television

April 16, 2022
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These performances on The Ed Sullivan Show occurred almost exclusively between 1957 and 1964 and that’s not happenstance. They coincide with the only slice of time when different styles of jazz ever got a significant airing on television.

Theater Commentary: A Wacky Vision of Violence — “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus”

April 12, 2022
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Finally, a sign that American theater might be facing the world of violence outside of its usual provincial purview.

Music Commentary: The Streaming Cesspool

April 12, 2022
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When listeners outsource their listening to streaming organizations, as they commonly do, they are often directed to music that has been selected to fatten up someone’s bottom line, not to enrich and expand their musical lives.

Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy

April 6, 2022
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Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.

Book Review: The Climate Crisis and the “Race for Tomorrow”

March 29, 2022
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If there is one book to pick up that will get you interested in what is happening to our climate, Race for Tomorrow is it.

Arts Commentary: The Oscars 2022 — No Longer So White, But Still Not So Hot

March 29, 2022
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It was soon clear what Oscar was after: two separate younger demographics — one with plebeian cinematic tastes, the other with hip politics.

Arts Commentary: The 2022 Academy Awards — “Timmy, Don’t Hit Your Sister”

March 28, 2022
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Aside from the multiple awards Dune won for technological brilliance, the 94th Academy Awards was a very different sort of “Hooray for Hollywood.”

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