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Music Preview: East Coast Premiere of an Opera about the Fight for Civil Rights –“Dark River”

March 26, 2014
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Fanny Lou Hamer’s life and the political struggle, which gave us the Voting Rights Act, is the basis of Mary Watkins’ two-act opera.

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Fuse Views: No More Double Talk at WGBH?

March 25, 2014
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This is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.

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Rock Review: Temples’ “Sun Structures” — Fifty Years Too Late?

March 20, 2014
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To their credit, Temples would have been a really good band from the 1960s.

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Fuse Views: Why the Vogue For Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”?

March 14, 2014
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“Company” explores a very relevant question in our technological age, where human interaction can be watered down to clicking on ‘like’ or ‘share’ buttons: how do we share our lives with others?

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Fuse Views: Remembering a Preserver of Memory

March 9, 2014
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Jiri Fiedler’s was a life of quiet heroism dedicated to the indispensable task of keeping the past alive.

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Fuse Views: This is What We Look Like — On “Selfies” and Self-Image

March 6, 2014
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Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our own “raw” photos.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

February 28, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Theater Review: “Hard Love” — A Timely Exploration of a Bitter Religious Rift

February 25, 2014
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Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.

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Fuse News: Gender Underrepresentation in the Media — VIDA Surveys Dudesville and Beyond

February 24, 2014
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VIDA, an association of women in the literary arts, has released its fifth annual tally of the number of women critics in major literary publications as well as the number of works by women being reviewed.

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Arts Flash: Proposal — A More Creative Approach to Teaching Writing

February 23, 2014
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I believe a Bauhaus-type approach might help lead to needed reform in the teaching of creative writing.

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