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Book Review: “That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It” — Prose & Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions

October 8, 2023
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These essays and poems present incarcerated men and women as nothing more or less than our fellow humans.

Coming Attractions: October 8 through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 8, 2023
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s Memoir — The Profound Voice of a Master

October 7, 2023
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Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”

Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Season Opener — A Mostly Auspicious Evening

October 7, 2023
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Ten years on, Andris Nelsons’s retains his remarkable gifts for expressing the raw power of music with dazzling panache.

Theater Review: An On-Target “Assassins”

October 6, 2023
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Assassinations may be so-last-generation, but gun violence, and what it reflects about American culture and human depravity, defines our own era as much as any.

Jazz Commentary: Three More Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — Stretching the Boundaries of the “Conventional”

October 5, 2023
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These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 5, 2023
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This week’s poem: Eliot Cardinaux’s “Said Regression.”

Concert Review: Boston Chamber Music Society’s Season Opener — Savoring a Hidden Gem

October 5, 2023
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Performances of such zest and sensitivity deserve to be rewarded with rapt enthusiasm, even love.

Book Review: “The Short End of the Sonnenallee” — A Sure Satiric Brush

October 4, 2023
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Cockeyed anecdotes roam merrily through a satiric tale set in an East Germany that’s too larky to be oppressive.

Concert Review: Worcester Chamber Music Society’s “Time Changes”

October 4, 2023
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Now in its 18th season, the membership of the Worcester Chamber Music Society has remained remarkably consistent, boasting a number of familiar faces from Boston’s chamber music and orchestral scenes.

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