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Music/Film Interview: Portrait of “The Punk Singer” — Riot Grrrl Mover and Shaker Kathleen Hannaz

The documentary “The Punk Singer” is a welcome, informative portrait of riot grrrl icon Kathleen Hanna, the former lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Bikini Kill, documentary, Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna, Le Tigre, RiotGrrl, Rob Ribera, Sini Anderson, The Punk Singer

Film Interview: Oscar Isaac on “Inside Llewyn Davis”

There was a moment when I turned around and thought, ‘I am definitely in a Coen brothers movie. This is crazy.’

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Folk-Music, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, Oscar Isaac, Robert Ribera

Visual Arts Interview: Doing Ad-Lib Art — Richard Thomas Scott Kicks Off “30 Paintings in 30 Days”

Artist Richard Thomas Scott is currently working on his new Kickstarter project, “30 Paintings in 30 Days.” Sponsors pitch him inspirations (“Challenge me to paint something I’ve never done before!”) and he interprets them on canvas..

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Visual Arts Tagged: Richard Thomas Scott

Film Interview: Director Peter Miller on the Making of “AKA Doc Pomus,” The Story of a Master Songwriter

Despite the influence and the respect Doc Pomus still has in the music community, his name is not as well known to the public as that of some of his contemporaries.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: AKA Doc Pomus, documentary, Peter Miller, rock

Music Interview: A Talk with Singer Luciana Souza

Luciana Souza

“I like singing live; I try to sing well live, I try to prepare myself for the audience, for that room. And I care a great deal about singing live, because I think that’s the experience of jazz. Even if I’m singing Brazilian music.”

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Jazz, Music, World Music Tagged: Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Luciana Souza, New England Conservatory

Fuse Film Interview: Will Forte on Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska”

It was intimidating to go into a situation with a director (Alexander Payne) that you love so much and an actor (Bruce Dern) who has done so much and worked with so many amazing people.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Alexander Payne, Bruce Dern, Nebraska, Rob Ribera, Will Forte

Music Interview: Childsplay — Featuring the Fiddles of Bob Childs

What makes Childsplay unique and inspiring is its back story. Every one of the fiddles played on stage was made by Bob Childs, a Cambridge-based luthier who has been making exceptional instruments by hand for more than 30 years.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Bob Childs, Childsplay

Film Interview: A Talk with Filmmaker John Sayles and Actor Edward James Olmos

“It’s easier to make a movie now but it’s harder to get it distributed in a way that people will see it.”

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Edward James Olmos, Go For Sisters, John Sayles

Short Fuse Interview: The Enigma of Vo Nguyen Giap — Military Mastermind, or “Marginalized Hero”?

iIf we lift the fog hovering over the War in Vietnam what we find a story nearly unknown in the West: far from devising and launching the Tet Offensive, Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap consistently and adamantly opposed it.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: General Vo Nguyen Giap, Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Short Fuse, Vietnam-War

Fuse Interview: Ian Frazier on the Comic Genius of Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner wrote the funniest stand-alone sentence using the fewest words with which that feat can be done: “‘Shut up,’ he explained.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Ian Frazier, Library-of-America, Ring Lardner, Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings

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