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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

December 4, 2025
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This week’s poem: Uche Nduka’s “The Cantaloupe”

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AT DOC NYC: A Filmmaker’s Farewell to a Friend, Flophouse Vérité, and the Fight for “Female Viagra”

December 4, 2025
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A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.

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Book Review: “Corrections At Work” — – Practical Reforms for Correctional Officers, Sidestepping Abolition

December 4, 2025
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When it comes to the aberrant conditions in today’s jails and prisons, concerns such as how corrections officers are regarded by their superiors in the system, the media, and the public are beside the point.

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Jazz Album Review: Sun Ra and His Arkestra Live at The Left Bank — Cosmic Swing and Ragged Glory

December 3, 2025
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Sun Ra was often deliberately far out, as we used to say, and also joyously entertaining.

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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard

December 2, 2025
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One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, Tom Stoppard wrote to entertain, but with intellectual rigor.

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Popular Music Reviews: Ray Charles — The Quintessential Sound of American Popular Music

December 2, 2025
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Add these four remastered Ray Charles albums to your collection and remind yourself what the real thing sounds like when it finally comes along.

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Theater Review: “Fun Home” — The Fragility of Memory

December 1, 2025
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“Fun Home”‘s relevance not only lies in how it flawlessly interweaves three storylines that revolve around the same character, but how it dramatizes, with grace, humor, and pathos, a familiar human struggle — looking at our parents through adult eyes.

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Winter 2025 Appeal — Keep the Fuse Lit!

December 1, 2025
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This year we received the largest single donation in our history — $25,000. That gift inspired us to raise another $25,000 this holiday season to invest in our future.

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December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Opera Album Review: World-Premiere Recording of a Still Deliciously Daffy Italian Comic Opera from 1769

November 30, 2025
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Paisiello, one of the most successful opera composers in Mozart’s day, offers repeated delight and surprises in this entertainment, thanks to a splendid cast of mostly youngish singers.

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