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Classical Music Album: The American Songbook, Recast for Solo Violin

September 11, 2026
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Curtis Stewart transforms two dozen American songs into inventive, virtuosic studies for solo violin.

Performing Arts Feature: Huzzah! Renaissance Faires as Immersive Theater

September 10, 2026
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King Richard’s Faire, which is New England’s largest and oldest medieval-themed entertainment venue, serves as an intriguing case study of countercultural expression and commercialized theatrical spectacle.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 10, 2026
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This week’s poem: Zachary Bos’s “Sonnet Nearly Forty-Five”

Rock Album Review: The Smiths’ Best I and Best II Compilations– Revisited in a Warholian Light

September 9, 2026
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Rhino’s reissues of “Best I” and “Best II” reveal the breadth of the band’s music and the striking parallels between Steven Morrissey and Andy Warhol.

Book Review: A Life Lived at the Boomer Crossroads

September 9, 2026
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Robert Dattoli’s “Boomer Madness” recounts a picaresque journey through sex, drugs, work, protest, and the cultural upheavals of postwar America—but its reflections on the generation often prove less compelling than its adventures.

Concert Review: Mavis Staples and Alabama Shakes Turn Tanglewood Into an “Army of Love”

September 8, 2026
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At the Koussevitzky Music Shed, two generations of artists joined forces in a rousing concert of gospel, rock, resistance, and solidarity.

Children’s Book Reviews: Hurray for Books!

September 8, 2026
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Two lively picture books invite children to discover the creativity, collaboration, and wonder behind the books they love.

Film Review: “Filipiñana”‘s Fairway to Hell

September 8, 2026
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Director Rafael Manuel’s dazzling debut turns a fantastical Philippine golf resort into a miniature world of caste, exploitation, and resistance.

Book Review: “Bad Energy” Makes a Forceful Case Against Green Capitalism

September 8, 2026
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By Ed Meek Joshua Frank offers an incisive account of the environmental and human costs of “green” development — even if his sweeping skepticism leaves readers wondering what practical climate action should look like. Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future by Joshua Frank. Haymarket…

Book Review: The Wild, Dirty, Dignified World of Garbage Collection

September 7, 2026
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This book is the best travelogue you’ll ever read about a terrible place you’ll never want to visit but want to experience vicariously.

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