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Film Review: “There’s Still Tomorrow” — Hearing Women’s Voices

March 7, 2025
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Director/actress Paola Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow” is yet another bold cinematic plea for women’s rights.

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Book Review: Social Critic Jackson Lears Cheers the “Off-Modern”

March 7, 2025
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Jackson Lears’s collection of essays and book reviews gets a few things right in its description of various kooks, oddballs, and mavericks who sometimes succeeded in moving history in their direction. But it gets far more wrong.

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Film Review: “Mickey 17” — Kicking Capitalism in the Teeth

March 6, 2025
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Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” is one of the most vicious, cruel, and savagely arch vivisections of our global economic and socio-political reality since… well… Bong’s 2013 movie “Snowpiercer”.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 6, 2025
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This week’s poem: Elizabeth T. Gray Jr’s From “After The Operation”

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Theater Review: “A Man of No Importance” — Love Is a Many Complicated Thing

March 5, 2025
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“A Man of No Importance” is a fitting finale for Paul Daigneault’s tenure as Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Stage Company because it is a paean to the power of theater as both an artistic expression and a place to discover community.

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Film Reviews: Berlin Film Festival 2025 – Blue Moon and Cologne

March 5, 2025
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A review of two fine backstage (or offstage) comedies at the Berlinale — “Blue Moon” and “Koln 75”.

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Arts Remembrance: Tom Robbins’s “Joy in Spite of Everything”

March 5, 2025
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In his writing, in his life, and in his fun, generous, and winsomely wise spirit, the late — but never late for a party — Tom Robbins chose to feel “ridiculously fine” and wanted us to feel the same way.

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Book Review: “Fable for the End of the World” — Techno-Fascism, Vividly Described

March 4, 2025
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“Fable for the End of the World” reflects our own uncertain condition — there are possibilities unknown, alternatives that even would-be godlings like Elon Musk and his ilk have not accounted for.

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Book Review: Justice Denied? Or “Justice Abandoned”?

March 4, 2025
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In “Justice Abandoned”, Rachel Elise Barkow argues that much of the blame for the blight of American mass incarceration lies with the Supreme Court.

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Poetry Review: Songs from a Bone Window — Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.’s “After the Operation”

March 3, 2025
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For poet Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., the neurological is also archeological.

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