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Book Review: “Organizing America” — Celebrating Unsung Heroes

September 26, 2025
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The book presents brisk, information-rich capsule biographies of twenty largely under-publicized figures who, against the odds and at significant personal sacrifice, worked valiantly to promote a range of underdog causes, from abolition to union organizing to disarmament.

Film Review: A Portrait of Fakir Musafar — The Search for Corporeal Transcendence

September 25, 2025
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“A Body To Live In” is not trying to be a conventional biopic — this is an atmospheric reminiscence of an underground movement.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 25, 2025
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This week’s poem: Chris McCreary’s “Echologue”

Theater Review: “The Mountaintop” — A Room With a View of the Promised Land

September 24, 2025
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The Front Porch Arts Collective’s engaging revival of Katori Hall’s drama comes at a propitious time.

Theater Review: “Our Town” — An American Classic That Still Holds Up

September 24, 2025
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Given all the chaos and violence around us, isn’t it a mite too late for a subtle play like “Our Town” to be considered a “primal scream?”

Doc Talk: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — One of the Strongholds for the First Amendment

September 24, 2025
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As other outlets for reporting and investigating the truth are persecuted or succumb to pressure, the role of independent documentary filmmaking grows more urgent and vital.

Film Review: “Plainclothes” and the Surveillance of Desire

September 24, 2025
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Despite its abrasive style, “Plainclothes” leaves no doubt about what is going to happen or what is meant to be its takeaway message.

Concert Review: Horizon Ensemble Polishes a Neglected Gem by French Composer Germaine Tailleferre

September 23, 2025
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Happily, the admirable Horizon Ensemble is championing Germaine Tailleferre’s mesmerizing piano concerto.

Book Review: “How Progress Ends” — Revisiting Innovation, Institutions, and the Future of Change

September 23, 2025
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As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice.” Rather than ask how progress ends, shouldn’t we be asking how progress bends?

Film Review: “Tura!” – V is for Varla

September 23, 2025
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A new documentary bares (almost) all about stripper-actress Tura Satana.

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