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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 28, 2023
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This week’s poem: Jiwon Choi’s “The Universe Is All About Pranks”

Visual Arts Review: “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy” — Women’s Lives Mattered

September 27, 2023
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The show would have been stronger if more context had been provided, both about women’s lives and the artistic traditions that inspired and influenced artists of the Renaissance.

Doc Talk: Two at CineFest Latino Boston — Totaled Recall

September 27, 2023
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What happens when, through unwillingness or incapacity, memory is lost or forsaken? Two documentaries at the CineFest Latino Boston explore some answers.

Children’s Book Reviews: Two Superb Looks at Musical Innovators

September 27, 2023
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These picture books explore music history and an avant-garde composer who challenged convention.

Film Review: “Cassandro” — The Exótico as Champion

September 26, 2023
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Watching Cassandro become the “Liberace of Luchadors” is enthralling in itself, but we are also given the drama of seeing the protagonist wrestle with his own personal demons.

Classical Album Reviews: “For Clara” and “Bach Minimaliste”

September 26, 2023
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Reviews of Hélène Grimaud’s latest homage to Clara Schumann and La Tempête investigates seeming stylistic overlaps in the music of J. S. Bach, Henryk Górecki, Jehan Alain, Knut Nystedt, and John Adams.

Theater Review: “POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive”

September 25, 2023
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“POTUS” supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.

Concert Preview: The Tedeschi Trucks Band — Touring With Swagger

September 25, 2023
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Susan Tedeschi has developed a way to assert her powerhouse presence without upending the overall balance of the big band.

Film Review: “Fair Play” — All’s Fowl in Love and Business

September 25, 2023
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The unpleasantness of the film’s first sex scene turns out to be a foreshadowing of a refreshingly curdled vision of insecurity in the 21st century.

Coming Attractions: September 24 through October 9 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 24, 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.

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