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Fuse Concert Review: “Hot Stove, Cool Music” — A Salute to Boston’s Vintage Years

January 12, 2015
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Intentionally or not, much of the “Hot Stove, Cook Music” concert was flashback to the Boston scene 20 years ago .

Concert Review: Yevgeny Kutik and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra’s “Russian Portraits”

January 12, 2015
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Violinist Yevgeny Kutik delivered a performance of the Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto that mined the piece’s subversive character but never shied away from its extroverted nature.

Film Review: “The Imitation Game” — A Delicate Balance

January 11, 2015
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The Imitation Game is a movie that should have made us angry, but it merely makes us sad.

Theater Review: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — Middle-aged Angst and Broad Humor

January 10, 2015
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While worth a look for its inspired performances, this Huntington Theatre Company production does not give us Christopher Durang at his madcap best.

Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of Negritude.

January 8, 2015
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Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.

Fuse Restaurant Review: Wasabi in North Cambridge — Superior Sushi

January 6, 2015
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What is served at Wasabi is so-o-o-o fresh.

Theater Review: “Red Hot Patriot” — The Enduring Wit and Wisdom of Molly Ivins

January 6, 2015
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If you’re looking for an entertaining piece of theater that will leave you both laughing and pondering your own place on the political map, go see

Classical CD Review: Seattle Opera’s Earthbound “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (Avie Records)

January 5, 2015
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What one really wishes is that the Seattle Opera’s Ring Cycle had been released as a DVD.

Visual Arts Review: “National Pride (and Prejudice)” at MFA Boston — Thinking Critically about National Icons

January 5, 2015
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National Pride (and Prejudice) wants us to reexamine the relationship between a country’s iconic images and its not-so-reassuring realities.

Book Review: “The Hilltop: A Novel” — Serious Israeli Comedy

January 3, 2015
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Assaf Gavron’s sweeping, smart, often funny new novel spins a satiric update on Exodus.

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