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Visual Arts Review: A Tribute to a Lost World of Joy and Fury — “Loisada: New York’s Lower East Side in the ’80s”

May 21, 2014
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For once, in Ronald Reagan’s America, youthful talent and energy seemed able to trump everything else.

Fuse Movie Review: Boston’s MFA Presents a Film Festival of Colorful Song and Dance

May 20, 2014
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Boston’s MFA should be congratulated for screening these Technicolor musicals in way that does wondrous justice to their eye-popping colors.

Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures

May 20, 2014
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Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.

Fuse Concert Review: New England Phonographers Union Pump It Up

May 19, 2014
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At last — industrial music made by real industrial machines played in a real industrial setting.

Food Review: At Sam LaGrassa’s — Corned Beef, The Essence of Jewish Goodness

May 19, 2014
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The best corned beef in the Boston area by far is, get this, at an Italian lunch joint in Downtown Crossing, Sam LaGrassa’s.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 18, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

Album Review: The Black Keys Hold Their Hooks and “Turn Blue”

May 18, 2014
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The Black Keys clearly wanted to write moody, trippy, mostly hookless tracks, and as far as moody, trippy, mostly hookless tracks go, the ones on Turn Blue aren’t so bad.

Concert Review: BMOP Presents “A Fine Centennial” at Jordan Hall

May 18, 2014
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While 1962’s Symphony owes a clear debt to Stravinsky and Britten (especially its last movement), it sounds like nobody but Irving Fine. This is a score that orchestras ought to be lining up to play.

Movie Review: “Million Dollar Arm” — A Pleasing Baseball Movie Where Fact and Fable Meet

May 17, 2014
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Given its its male-weepy genre, the “inspirational sports movie based on a true story,” Million Dollar Arm is surprisingly enjoyable.

Theater Review: “Rain Dogs” — A Humdinger of a Tribute to the Music of Tom Waits

May 17, 2014
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Having glittery, Bettie Page-y young women clad in leather and thongs undulate to music by Tom Waits is pretty much guaranteed to work.

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