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Jazz Concert Reviews: Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis and the Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Quintet at the Regattabar

September 23, 2025
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Gigs by superb bands led by Mary Halvorson and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol at the Regattabar.

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Film Festival Reviews: The Toronto International Film Festival – Storks and Arctic Drama

September 22, 2025
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Two outstanding films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — “The Tale of Silyan” and “Wrong Husband”

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Theater Interview: Kai Maristed on “Paul and Émile” — The Vicissitudes of Friendship

September 22, 2025
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“If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice.”

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Short Fuse Podcast #73: “Mother Africa” –Celebrating African Jazz at Lincoln Center

September 21, 2025
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In this conversation, host Elizabeth Howard talks with Seton Hawkins, the Director of Public Programs and Educational Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, about Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s “Mother Africa” season.

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Theater Review: “Primary Trust” — Dramatizing Acts of Random Kindness

September 20, 2025
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Playwright Eboni Booth won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this script, and it is a heartwarming, well-constructed, one-act.

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Concert Preview: Cowboy Junkies — On This Tour, Looking Back With Pleasure

September 20, 2025
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Cowboy Junkies has simply been too busy to wallow in the past, which has meant a lot of great songs have been untouched in concert.

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Film Review: “HIM” — A Carpet Bombing of the Optic Nerve

September 19, 2025
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“HIM” works incredibly well as a Grotesque, and by that I mean the film takes the incipient, creepy ideologies of pro football and blows them up to terrifying and absurd proportions.

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Poetry Review: Askold Melnyczuk’s “The Venus of Odesa” — A Jukebox of One-Hit Wonders

September 19, 2025
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Of special interest is Askold Melnyczuk’s treatment of objects. His imagination transforms curios into uncanny artefacts.

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Theater Interview: “Investigating the New” — Actor/Director Vincent Murphy Reflects on Life and Theater

September 18, 2025
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What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children’s Theatre in the ’60s: “cooperation, creativity, listening, and play.”

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 18, 2025
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The week”s poem: January Gill O’Neil’s “America, What Dream Do You Dream?”

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