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Few events draw more prognosticators than the Oscars, and the Arts Fuse movie critics join in on the universal guessing game. The trio agree on one thing: the field this year is rich with worthy and fascinating nominees.
Read MoreAmerican readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.
Read MorePresence is the sense that the actors live in the here and now, every minute, every second they are on stage. And Liz Hayes and Nael Nacer do that in the New Rep production of Lungs.
Read MoreThis is not just a story of a plucky girl succeeding; in weaving her complicated story and giving credit to those who helped her to understand how to think critically and how to develop her own moral philosophy, Sonia Sotomayor never forgets that luck and serendipity also play a part.
Read MoreUnlike fellow apostate (and friend) Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne didn’t have the chutzpah to be a proto-existentialist — for him, it was better to cling to questionable moral pieties than plummet into sheer nothingness.
Read MorePostmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus plays some of the prettiest Stravinsky ever performed.
Read MoreEmily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.
Read MoreNo one would say that Terri Lyne Carrington’s versions of Ellington’s pieces are definitive, but they extend the legendary composer’s legacy in a personal and significant way.
Read MorePeter Hook’s memoir contains no earthshattering revelations, but it does offer a new way (or at least another way) of thinking about the four young men who made up Joy Division.
Read MoreHeartbeat is an international non-profit organization that is aimed at uniting Israeli and Palestinian musicians, educators and students in order to transform conflict through the power of music.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler