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Coming Attractions: January 27 Through February 12 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 27, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Theater Review: “Slow Food” — Could Use More Meat on its Bones

January 26, 2019
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Qualms aside, Slow Food is an enjoyable show that taps into the uncertainties of middle-aged parents who must confront a strange, new life without the kids.

Film Preview: The Brattle Theatre’s Dead of Winter — Time for Tales of the Beast

January 23, 2019
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These films will no doubt raise your spirits in the dead of winter.

Film Review: Stephen Bannon — “Dharma” Bum

January 21, 2019
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Errol Morris allows Stephen Bannon to indulge in his vision of how he will save America, with Donald Trump as his agent and himself as the genius manipulating events.

Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s Tapestration

January 21, 2019
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I thought I’d never seen such a thrilling example of how dance and music can combine and feed each other.

Theater Review: Two Cheers for Manual Cinema’s “The End of TV”

January 21, 2019
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I strongly advise you to explore the wizardry of Manual Cinema — its potential is considerable.

Theater Review: “Othello” at the American Repertory Theater — Un-moored

January 21, 2019
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Othello lacks a tragic dimension not because it highlights Othello’s “Otherness,” but because it eschews any vestige of grandeur or nobility.

Jazz CD Preview and Survey: Years of Utter Beauty, Part 1

January 20, 2019
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2018 saw the release of four ambitious and powerful jazz releases driven by poetic texts.

Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”

January 20, 2019
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A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).

Arts Remembrance: Poet Mary Oliver

January 19, 2019
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Mary Oliver’s poetic vision reaches back to the American transcendentalists: it encourages us, by demanding that we pay attention to our now threatened natural world, to find a moral compass.

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