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Arts Feature: The 10 Best Music Documentaries of 2024 — Along with Others Worth Watching and a Few Disappointments

December 21, 2024
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If there’s a documentary on this list that you want to see and it isn’t readily available, I’d suggest following it on social media or checking if its website has an email list that will announce future screenings or streamings.

Film Review: “A Complete Unknown” — A Fable Well Worth Telling

December 21, 2024
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Focusing on the years between 1961 and 1964, director James Mangold turns Bob Dylan’s creative journey into a better-than-average cinematic biography in which the singer ends up riding off on his motorcycle and into history.

Book Review: The Night Bob Dylan Plugged in

December 21, 2024
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Bob Dylan had been soundly booed for playing a set plugged. What ninnies dictate the rules in the backwater world of American folk music!

Film Review: “Maria” — A Convincing Portrait of a Woman Consumed by the Art That Nourished Her

December 20, 2024
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This might not be everybody’s idea of who Maria Callas was, but the film is plausible, and honest. You can watch Angelina Jolie’s Maria and think, so that’s what it was like to be her.

Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2024

December 19, 2024
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Our critics supply their TV favorites of 2024.

Film Feature: Talking to the Artists Who Made “Porcelain War”

December 19, 2024
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The film is a testament not just to the resilience and courage of Ukrainians in the face of brutal aggression and the threat of genocide but to the power of art to transcend tragedy and injustice.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

December 19, 2024
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This week’s poem: Bill Knott’s “PROSEPOEM”

Book Review: “Unit 29” — The Voices of the Incarcerated

December 19, 2024
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An argument for this collection might be that anything anyone writes from prison should be published, since whatever it is, it will inform readers regarding the grim circumstances about two million of our fellow citizens endure everyday, day after day.

Album Review: “B. B. King in France” — A Wizard of the Blues Casts His Spell

December 18, 2024
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On his live recordings, B.B. King displayed his brilliant use of stagecraft and pacing. He was one might call a mastro of manipulation.

Arts Feature: The Best in Popular Music 2024

December 18, 2024
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Our popular music critics pick some of the standout albums and performances of 2024.

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