Month: January 2015

Fuse News: In March, Celebrity Series Will Help Us “Stave” Off Boredom

January 9, 2015
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Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.

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Dance Interview: Debra Cash Named Executive Director of Boston Dance Alliance

January 8, 2015
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“My first order of business is to do a listening tour. I will have the same question for everyone I meet: what do you need to do your work?”

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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.

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Theater Commentary: On The Firing Of Theater J’s Ari Roth

January 7, 2015
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The Theater J debacle points to the difficulties Jewish theater faces within the Jewish community.

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Film Preview: Alec Guinness Films Galore at the Museum of Fine Arts

January 6, 2015
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Not since the closing of Boston’s Exeter Street Theatre have so many of Alex Guinness’s classic films been available to be viewed on a local big screen.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Author Interview: Historian Jason Sokol on Race and Massachusetts — From the Red Sox to Springfield

January 5, 2015
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“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”

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