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Film Review: “Clown Panic” — Bring on the Clowns, Spare Us the Grand Theory

October 15, 2026
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Ed Perkins’s documentary finds a fascinating story in America’s 2016 creepy-clown craze, then buries it beneath sweeping analogies and frantic editing.

Film Appreciation: “The Devils” – The Devils in Me

October 15, 2026
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The provocative 1971 study of politics, religion, and sex in medieval France is back on the big screen—with its long-censored footage reinstated.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 14, 2026
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The week’s poem: Josette Akresh-Gonzales’s “Cop City”

Film Review: Elizabeth Holmes, Replicant

October 14, 2026
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Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” turns the Theranos saga into a revelatory, Philip K. Dickian inquiry into artifice, identity, and truth.

Doc Talk: Two Exemplary Lives at The Boston Palestine Film Festival

October 14, 2026
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Two compelling documentaries at the Boston Palestine Film Festival trace Edward Said’s intellectual awakening and the unfinished search for justice for Alex Odeh.

Book Review: “The People’s Paper” Offers a Rollicking Account of New York’s Daily News and Its War with the New York Post

October 13, 2026
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Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor.

Film Review: “Fjord” Puts Conviction on Trial

October 13, 2026
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Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner asks whether understanding others requires seeing their side—or questioning our own.

Musician Interview: Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan Talks “Pugnello,” Pedals, and Post-Punk Possibilities

October 13, 2026
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The Dublin post-punk experimentalists bring their dark new album to Brighton Music Hall, with Alan Duggan reflecting on the group’s evolving creative process, headphone-oriented textures, and his personal connection to Boston.

Film Review: “Strangers and Their Babies” — The People the World Didn’t Count

October 12, 2026
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Asio Liu’s documentary uncovers the forgotten history of unlisted Vietnamese “boat people” refugee camps in the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

Musician Interview: Neko Case — “More of a Joy Than a Chore”

October 11, 2026
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Ahead of two Massachusetts shows with Dan Bejar, Neko Case talks about producing “Neon Grey Midnight Green,” writing her memoir, composing a “Thelma and Louise” musical, and the toll of streaming on working musicians.

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