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Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2023

December 23, 2023
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Our critics supply their TV favorites of 2023.

Film Review: “The Iron Claw” — In the Clutches of Family

December 22, 2023
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Writer-director Sean Durkin’s engrossing biopic goes a far piece toward showing the dark side of this tale of patriarchal authority and its abuse under the cover of an all-American, clean-living, unassailable family of heroes.

Book Review: “Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform” — Up For Grabs

December 22, 2023
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This book offers a deep dive — a very deep dive — into how contemporary tokens work, and the consequences of their use, both for the good and for the bad.

Arts Feature: The Best of Visual Arts and Design, 2023

December 21, 2023
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Amid the year’s chaos, art was a saving grace, civilizing and humanizing: a much needed blessing that allowed us to breathe, to inhale beauty and perhaps a whiff or two of truth.

Arts Feature: Top Classical Recordings and Concerts of 2023

December 21, 2023
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Our classical music critics supply their favorites, albums and concerts, from over the past year.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

December 21, 2023
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This week’s poem: Wendy Drexler’s ON DISCOVERING A WOLF SPIDER CARRYING HER SPIDERLINGS ON HER BACK

Music Feature: The Best Jazz Albums and Live Shows of 2023

December 20, 2023
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The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums and live shows.

Short Fuse Podcast #66: Let’s Get “Authentic”

December 19, 2023
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In this episode of The Short Fuse, host Elizabeth Howard and Alex Waters, technical editor of the podcast, reflect on the year in an informal conversation.

Theater Preview: Something for Everyone — How Providence-Area Stages are Surviving, Post-Pandemic

December 19, 2023
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Providence-area professional theaters have fared better than most in terms of surviving and rebounding from the pandemic.

Music Commentary: Nanci Griffith vs. the “New Yorker”

December 19, 2023
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It was the sniping tone that made the article perplexing. I would almost call it perverse. Why treat so cavalierly — even shabbily — a deceased, highly esteemed, Grammy-winning artist?

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