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Fuse Preview: Jazz Festivals in New England Close Out June

June 17, 2016
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Summer has arrived thermally and is due to arrive astronomically early next wee; New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals.

Fuse Visual Arts Feature: “The Woven Arc” at the Cooper Gallery

June 17, 2016
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The premise of this intriguing exhibition of African and African American Art is that the revolution will not be televised, nor is it over.

Theater Interview: Bedlam Doubled — Director Eric Tucker on Twelfth Night/What You Will

June 17, 2016
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“What other play culminates in such a frenzy of emotion and joy and love all in a moment on stage?”

Visual Arts Review: “Rodin — Transforming Sculpture” at the Peabody Essex Museum

June 17, 2016
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In the hands of Rodin, the human form was shaped to tell an emotionally and psychologically complex story.

Fuse Commentary: “The Boston Globe” Cleans House

June 16, 2016
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Arts and entertainment are one and the same, both trivial– or at least way down the pecking order when it comes to things that are genuinely important.

Book Review: “Better Living Through Criticism” — Critical Self-Help

June 16, 2016
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A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.

Book Review: “A Hero of France” — An Insider’s Guide to the French Resistance

June 16, 2016
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Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.

Theater Review: “I Was Most Alive With You” — Ambition is Not Enough

June 16, 2016
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The effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas’s family melodrama to bear.

Book Review: “When Movies Were Theater” — Exploring Where We Watch the Movies

June 15, 2016
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If you are interested in how the architecture within American movie houses shaped the cinema and vice-versa, this often brilliant tome is an instant classic.

Book Review: “Digging Up Mother” — Bizarro Family Values

June 15, 2016
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Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.

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