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Book Review: Jan Kerouac’s “Baby Driver” — Storming Down the Road

November 22, 2025
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“Baby Driver” is a book in the tradition of American road literature, but it moves at a distinctly different pace.

Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers — Beauty and Resilience for These Dark Times

November 22, 2025
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Varone and dancers made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance

Book Review: “Crimean Fig” — Everything Has Its Own Soul

November 21, 2025
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The authors assembled in “Crimean Fig” demonstrate they are unafraid to speak up for Tatar language and culture, while simultaneously speaking out against Putin, unwilling to submit.

Film Review: “Peter Hujar’s Day” — Carpe Diem

November 21, 2025
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Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.

Jazz Commentary: The Enduring Enigma of Chet Baker

November 21, 2025
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I take a look back at the compelling documentary “Let’s Get Lost” because of the recently released “Chet Baker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight”, 15 unreleased studio recordings made by the trumpeter.

Television Review: “The Seduction” — HBO’s French Aristocrats Behave Badly, But Beautifully

November 21, 2025
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“The Seduction” is visually stunning but, even though it is the magnificently clothed French aristocracy, it all comes down to unremarkable people behaving badly.

Book Review: Writers on the Brink — “February 1933” and the Chilling Parallels to Trump’s America

November 20, 2025
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Reading “February 1933”, just ten months into Trump’s second mandate is nothing less than unnerving.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 20, 2025
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This week’s poem: Sam Cha’s “Have you heard the one”

Television Review: “Stumble” Finds Its Footing in the Cheer Comedy Arena

November 20, 2025
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“Stumble” is a welcome addition to the increasingly tired mockumentary genre.

Short Fuse Podcast #81: Dr. Shuvendu Sen on “Broadway, Bars & Fortune”

November 20, 2025
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Elizabeth Howard speaks with Dr. Shuvendu Sen—the director and producer of “Broadway, Bars & Fortune,” a documentary that explores how theater and the arts fosters healing and redemption among formerly incarcerated individuals.

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