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Film Review: “Far from the Madding Crowd” — Made Sappy

May 15, 2015
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Why did this version of Far from the Madding Crowd have to be so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull?

Film Interview: Talking to Director Lucia Small about “One Cut/ One Life”

May 14, 2015
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The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.

Book Review: “We All Looked Up” — A Book and Album Where Adolescence Meets the Apocalypse

May 14, 2015
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It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.

Book Review: “Days of Rage” — Counterculture Craziness

May 13, 2015
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How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.

Fuse Visual Arts: Janet Echelman’s Dazzling Aerial Sculpture — For Boston, the Sky’s the Limit

May 13, 2015
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With this one project, Boston has gone from a public art also-ran community to a serious cultural player.

Fuse Remembrance: Conceptual Artist Chris Burden — Political But Playful

May 12, 2015
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Chris Burden’s distinctive contribution to the art of our time was that he brought politically informed performance art and idea-based sculpture into the mainstream.

Alt-Rock Preview: Waxahatchee, Mitski, and Speedy Ortiz — Girls Just Want to Eat Guitars

May 12, 2015
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Waxahatchee exuded poise and presence, while delivering lonesome-cowboy epiphanies that speak to their generation’s collective existential shrug.

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part Two

May 11, 2015
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I would like to think that there are more composers working today who think of themselves as beyond category.

Album Review: Just Weird Enough — Axel Krygier’s Art-Pop Finds the Fun Spot

May 11, 2015
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Axel Krygier wisely treats the album’s framing concept as lightly as possible, turning Monsieur Bigfoot into a sort of Everyhominid who offers existential-woe comments on a variety of subjects.

Fuse Film Reviews: At Jewishfilm.2015 — History’s Revelations

May 9, 2015
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The 18th Annual Jewish Film Festival approaches its end with two compelling cinematic looks at Jewish history.

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