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Film Review: Bert Stern — Original Madman

May 5, 2013
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What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Dance Review: Not So Random Dances

May 3, 2013
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In George Balanchine’s Serenade and Symphony in C and in Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, architecture comes to the fore, but not exactly conveying the message that company director Mikko Nissinen seems to have intended.

Coming Attractions in Local Rock: May 2013

May 3, 2013
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The first Boston Calling Music Festival, plus Buffalo Tom, Mean Creek, Andrea Gillis, and Math the Band.

Fuse Commentary: Arts, Criticism, and the Search for a Serious Space

May 3, 2013
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Criticism is vital to our time because it is a form of witnessing, testimony to the possibility that the richness and joy of the arts can be articulated in ways that invite intellectual contentiousness in the midst of community.

Classical Music Sampler: May 2013

May 3, 2013
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John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby gets its long-overdue Boston premiere, as does Jan Dismas Zelenka’s 1739 Missa Votiva. Handel’s Jephtha returns to the Handel and Haydn Society after a century and a half, and the Walden Chamber Players explore music from Cuba.

Short Fuse Book Review: “Harvard Square” — Precincts of a Vanished Life

May 2, 2013
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What is Harvard Square today but a shopping spree waiting to happen, a student lounge, a food court? What could a novel gain by being set in that venue?

Coming Attractions in Film: May 2013 — Updated

May 1, 2013
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May is in full bloom. Starting just this week there is the LGBT Festival, screenings of three silent classics with live accompaniment, the beginning of the Harvard New American Black Cinema Series, and two Boston Jewish Film Festival encores.

Fuse Feature: A Letter From Paris, City of the Arts

May 1, 2013
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A two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.

Theater Review : “An Iliad” — War’s All Greek to Me

May 1, 2013
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Simultaneously storyteller and player, ancient character and modern respondent, Denis O’Hare’s performance of “An Iliad” elicits the kind of respect automatically granted this genre of demanding monologual performance.

Film Commentary: “Greetings from Tim Buckley” and the Demands of the Rock Biopic

April 30, 2013
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The best rock biopics, like “24 Hour Party People,” “I’m Not There,” and “The Doors,” aren’t afraid to get a little weird, even if it means throwing verifiable facts to the wind.

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