Month: June 2015

Visual Arts Review: Photographer Rose Marasco — The Search for Juxtapositions

June 16, 2015
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Rose Marasco’s strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.

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Poetry Review: Restoring the “Old Questions” — Klaus Merz’s “Out of the Dust”

June 16, 2015
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Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.

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Concert Review: Paul Weller — No Nostalgia for This Aging Rocker

June 15, 2015
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With most of his contemporaries doing reunion tours or playing decades-old albums, Paul Weller is one of the few claiming his right to be a still-evolving artist.

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Theater Review: The BSC’s “Man of La Mancha” — A Marvelously Robust Revival

June 15, 2015
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If you revel in witty lyrics and soaring melodies as I do, you will love this Man of La Mancha

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Album Review: James Taylor’s “Before This World” — Still Singing Pretty

June 15, 2015
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Before This World is a remarkable collection of what James Taylor calls “agnostic hymns, recovery songs and love songs” that stands up to the best of his work.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 15, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Theater Review: “Three” Equals Zero

June 14, 2015
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In truth, Three is not much of a play at all, but an anthology of “very special episodes” of an unproduced television or web series.

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Fuse Theater Review: “after all the terrible things I do” — Taking a Safe Stand

June 13, 2015
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Scripts of this well-intentioned variety are big on exalting forgiveness and empathy – calls for justice are rare for obvious reasons.

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Jazz Remembrance: Ornette is Gone, and Musicians Reacted

June 12, 2015
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The profound impact of Ornette Coleman can be seen in the reactions of the music world to his passing.

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Rock Concert Review: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Live at Boston Opera House

June 12, 2015
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The highlight of the concert came at the midway point, when Noel Gallagher started strumming an acoustic guitar as a tambourine tapped behind him.

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