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Concert Review: Yo-Yo Ma Elevates a Dispiriting Boston Symphony Orchestra Opening Night

September 27, 2026
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The BSO avoided a strike and greeted its music director warmly, but an oddly programmed opening night culminated in a deeply disappointing Brahms Fourth.

Opera Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s “William Tell” Takes Aim at Revolution—and Hits Its Mark

September 26, 2026
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Rossini’s epic arrives at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in a visually audacious, musically potent production that turns a familiar liberation story into a contemporary warning.

Film Review: The Real Love Story in “The Love Hypothesis” Isn’t the Romance

September 26, 2026
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Lili Reinhart charms as a cancer-curing Stanford Ph.D. candidate, but Amazon’s uneven adaptation works best when it follows Olive’s friendship with Anh—not her contrived fake-dating romance.

Book Review: “Talking in Tongues” — What It Means to Make Bones Sing

September 26, 2026
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In this rich collection of essays and introductions, translator and writer Peter Wortsman considers language as an intimate, imperfect act of resurrection—and guides readers toward a varied company of German- and French-language authors.

Book Review: Arthur Mitchell — Breaking Barriers, Building a Legacy

September 25, 2026
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There is no question that this new volume will be the resource that all subsequent historians will turn to when they explore the trajectory of classical ballet’s slow — and not yet completed — choreography towards racial inclusion.

Film Review: “Edie Arnold Is a Loser” Turns Catholic Guilt into Punk-Rock Glee

September 25, 2026
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“Edie Arnold Is a Loser” is a divinely idiotic punk-rock Catholic-school comedy: sweet, predictable, outrageous, mildly blasphemous—and infectious.

Film Review: “NAZA” — A Documentary Against Willful Blindness

September 25, 2026
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Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s rigorously constructed follow-up to “No Other Land” uses testimony from Israeli military whistleblowers to expose the systems of surveillance, dehumanization, and moral evasion that shaped Israel’s war on Gaza.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 24, 2026
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This week’s poem: Wanda Phipps’s “other memory”

Doc Talk: At The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — Hope and Guidance in Evil Times

September 24, 2026
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The festival’s strongest films find courage, comedy, and unexpected forms of kinship amid political repression, mortality, war, and the complications of family.

Book Review: The Long, Strange Journey of the Christmas Carol

September 24, 2026
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John Potter’s deeply researched history follows English carols from streets and taverns to churches, choirbooks, and the contemporary musical vernacular.

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