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Fuse Commentary: What Does the End of Newspapers Mean for the Arts in Boston?

April 15, 2013
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Recent changes in Boston’s media landscape do not bode well for substantial coverage of the arts. What do those in the arts world think about what is happening?

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Book News: Forget the Insufferable “Mr. Selfridge” — Turn to Zola’s “The Ladies’ Paradise” Instead

April 15, 2013
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Mr. Selfridge drives me nuts because the storyline, the rise of a mercantile empire, calls for edgy  Darwinian conflict rather than paternal benevolence sprinkled with layers of powered soap opera.

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Poetry Review: A Profound Respect for Place — Iraq and the Merrimack Valley

April 14, 2013
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David Allen Sullivan has no combat experience here or abroad, but his verse offers a poignant vision of the sights, sounds, and passions of the Iraq War. Matt Kraunelis replicates the landscapes of his hometown, planting the reader’s feet firmly in the Merrimack Valley.

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Fuse News: Sonia and Sheryl —Tips From Successful Women

April 14, 2013
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Maybe Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg had no interest in the requirements of a good book — just its potential use as a marketing tool.

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Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed

April 13, 2013
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Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.

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Fuse News Film Review: “The Gatekeepers” — Full of a Sense of History

April 13, 2013
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Israel has genuine enemies without, to be sure. But “The Gatekeepers” leaves the impression that it has no less mortal an enemy within.

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Jazz Review — Pianist Donal Fox and Cellist Maya Beiser at the ICA

April 12, 2013
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Pianist Donal Fox is a classical musician by training, and in style, with a yen for improvisation and, one might add, an unwillingness to let things be.

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Poetry Review: Lapidary Ends — “Cut These Words Into My Stone”

April 12, 2013
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This anthology, made up of Michael Wolfe’s superb translations of ancient Greek epitaphs, begins in prehistory and ends in the sixth century C.E.

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Fuse Theater Review: “M” and the Torment of Artistic Freedom

April 12, 2013
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But if a dramatist butchers everything – what will can be put in its place? In the case of “M” it is nothing; nothing I can see or understand.

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Fuse Film Review: The Clichés of “The Company You Keep”

April 11, 2013
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The serious intentions of “The Company You Keep” are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.

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