Month: August 2013
Pianist Marc Cary came to Sculler’s to play the neglected compositions of celebrated singer Abbey Lincoln.
Read MoreThe fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.
Read MoreLindsay Lohan is prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.
Read MoreFor classical music lovers, the opening of the concert season was synonymous with flutist Fenwick Smith’s annual recitals.
Read More[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music, and theater that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreAn evening that showed yet again how pop (even “modern” pop) can serve as nourishment for new jazz.
Read MoreFuse film critic Betsy Sherman has written a series of haiku inspired by an all-night marathon of film noir screenings.
Read MoreThose who champion the arts need to realize that talk is cheap — we have to fight to get a place at the political table.
Read MoreThere is a paucity of richness in The Goddess Chronicle. The myth might have been, but wasn’t, mined for tales of compassion, or inevitability of sorrow, or the psychology of misogyny or of revenge, or the strictures of fate.
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Fuse Commentary: MBTA Set to Demolish the “Center of the Universe” in Harvard Square
Apparently, an agency like the MBTA can simply take a wrecking ball to pieces of public art such as “Omphalos” when their existence becomes an encumbrance. No questions asked.
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