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Children’s Book Reviews: Celebrating Blackness

February 25, 2025
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Three engaging and spirited books celebrate Black history, culture, and resilience.

Film Review: “The Monkey” — A Hilariously Sinister Simian

February 24, 2025
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“The Monkey” is a delightful exercise in black humor.

Film Reviews: At the Berlin Film Festival — Hostage Heartbreak and Arab Acrobatics

February 24, 2025
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Two heartfelt documentaries about the Hamas attack and hostage-taking have premiered at this year’s Berlinale and have been received respectfully, even welcomed.

Concert Review: Handel + Haydn Society Explores the Romantic Music of Young Handel

February 23, 2025
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This H + H Society performance suggested Handel’s genius for generating joy.

Theater Review: “The Grove” — Nurturing Ancestral Connections

February 23, 2025
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Revelatory reunions are a standard dramatic setup, which explains why it takes quite a while for “The Grove” to gather some theatrical steam.

Jazz Album Review: The Timeless Stillness of Satoko Fujii’s “Altitude 1100 Meters”

February 22, 2025
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Music is one of the ways we experience time — Satoko Fujii and the musicians in “GEN” make it disappear.

Book Reviews: Three Very Different Architecture Books

February 21, 2025
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A trio of reviews of volumes on structures on paper and in the world.

Jazz Album Review: Jon Irabagon’s “Server Farm” — Music to Swing to A.I. By

February 21, 2025
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The album’s message about the triumph of A.I. is unconvincing, but the music, with its variety of sounds and tempos, its zigzaggy shifts, written and improvised, is totally engrossing.

Film Reviews: DocTalk — Legal Briefs at the 2025 Oscars

February 20, 2025
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The 2025 Oscar nominated documentary shorts indict the justice system.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

February 20, 2025
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The week’s poem: Michael McCarthy’s “Brick”

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