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Film Review: Enlightenment Meets the Mountain in Louise Hémon’s “The Girl in the Snow”

July 30, 2026
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A turn-of-the-century schoolteacher’s idealism collides with alpine tradition—and the land itself—in a beguiling, sensorially rich debut.

Doc Talk: “Remake” — A Filmmaker Ponders a Career and a Life

July 30, 2026
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Documentarian Ross McElwee’s most profound film folds four decades of self-portraiture into a threnody for his son—and a meditation on memory, guilt, and cinema’s solace.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

July 30, 2026
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This week’s poem: Brendan Lorber’s “Sag Harbor in the morning”

Film Review: Spider-Man vs. the Emotional Void

July 29, 2026
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The webslinger’s new outing has the cameos, the conspiracy, and the corporate logic. What it doesn’t have is heart.

Book Review: A Haunted House, Some Hard Truths

July 29, 2026
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Kelly McWilliams’s “No One Leaves the Manor” turns a haunted-house setup into a sharp, lyrical reckoning with race, class, disability, and trauma.

Festival Review: Newport Folk 2026 Finds Its Fire in Surprise, Collaboration, and Crossover

July 29, 2026
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From Tom Morello’s searing set to CMAT’s breakout turn and Dave Matthews’ final-set detour, the festival kept its focus on music that opened outward rather than looking back.

Film Review: Alex Cox’s “Dead Souls” Recasts Gogol as a Spaghetti Western Fever Dream

July 28, 2026
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The punk auteur’s late-career swan song is ragged, witty, and politically sharpened, though not always as cohesive as its ambitions.

Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US

July 27, 2026
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The widening chasm between European and American orchestras is not just a matter of polish, but of style, inheritance, and musical conviction.

Film Review: The Pickleball Blues, Lightly Served

July 27, 2026
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“The Dink” turns pickleball rivalries into an easygoing comedy about aging, ego, and unexpected connection.

Musician Interview: John Stanier Talks About Tomahawk’s Second Life

July 26, 2026
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Tomahawk readies a rare tour stop in Boston as its members reconvene after more than a decade.

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