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TV News: “Mad Men” and the Mystique of the Sixties

June 11, 2013
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“Mad Men” gets all manner of undeserved attention. Yet I attend to it.

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TV News: HBO’s “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer”

June 8, 2013
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In Russia, the defenders of Nadia, Masha, and Katia have compared their plight to the victims of the infamous Stalinist “Show Trials” of the ’30s.

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Fuse Film News: Global Lens 2013 — Focusing on Relatively Undiscovered Countries

June 7, 2013
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We’ve reached a sad situation in America where even sophisticated art house audiences balk at foreign-language films except those made in a handful of favored countries.

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Music News: Krauss, Blind Boys added to Boston Free Fests

June 6, 2013
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Boston’s free festival season is beginning to seem like a musical arms race.

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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 6, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

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Theater News: James Bond Meets Hamlet, Hilariously

June 3, 2013
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“From Denmark with Love” is playwright John J. King’s amusing mash-up of Shakespeare’s Danish tragedy and Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007.

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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 31, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

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Dance News: Remember Devon Carney of the Boston Ballet?

May 31, 2013
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This week, Devon Carney was named Artistic Director of Kansas City Ballet.

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Fuse News: Poetry on the Water

May 31, 2013
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While I believe that merely publishing these days is an act of entrepreneurial legerdemain, I direct you to a pair of Canadian poets who have gone one step beyond.

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News Obituaries: Mulgrew Miller and Jean Bach

May 29, 2013
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The jazz world says goodbye to a much-loved pianist and to the documentarian of an iconic photo.

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