Year: 2014

Concert Review: “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn” — A Welcome Holiday Tradition

December 15, 2014
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A Christmas Celtic Sojourn is uplifting and spirited fun; the performers are having at least as good a time as the audience, and that is always a winning formula.

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Fuse Visual Arts: Free For The Holidays — Picasso and Photography (and Jacqueline)

December 15, 2014
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Gagosian Gallery’s show Picasso & the Camera is the art bargain of the season.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 14, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater for the coming  week.

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Concert Review: Pianist Inon Barnatan — In a Class By Himself

December 13, 2014
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Pianist Inon Barnatan’s Celebrity Series recital felt like a tremendous occasion. In fact, it communicated a sense of joy, of invigorating discovery, which is rather rare.

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Music Feature: Best Jazz of the Year 2014

December 13, 2014
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Be prepared for some challenging, off-the-beaten path choices, including a new tradition.

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Film Review: “Zero Motivation” — An Enthralling Hebraic Version of “M*A*S*H”

December 12, 2014
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Are men totally useless in Zero Motivation? Well, they can come in handy when you want to use one of them as a sexual object.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Necessary Monsters” — A Confusing Walk on the Wild Side

December 12, 2014
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Attempting to dig underneath our protective psychic skins to get at the festering Ids within, John Kuntz would like Necessary Monsters to mesh laughter and fright, comedy and horror.

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Arts Interview: Tim Page on the “Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles, 1940-1954”

December 11, 2014
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Tim Page on a generous sampling of Virgil Thomson’s best music criticism – trenchant, outspoken, oftentimes delightfully clever, and always assured.

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Music Review: Having an Aimee Mann Christmas

December 11, 2014
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For those of us who love Christmas music, Aimee Mann and company showed how to do it right: a lot of lovely songs and festive spirits, not a lot of sticky sentiment.

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Visual Arts Feature: Cambridge’s Magazine Beach — A Fascinating View of Its History

December 10, 2014
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As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.

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