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Film Review: “Captain America: Brave New World” – ‘Tis New to Thee?

February 14, 2025
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“Captain America: Brave New World,” which is loaded with potential for drama and commentary, has less weight and punch than a butterfly’s fart.

Film Review: “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” — Cheesy But Satisfying

February 14, 2025
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Yes, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” is a cheesy, predictable rom-com. But it doesn’t try to be anything that it’s not.

Arts Commentary: Art, Music, and the New Age of Anxiety

February 14, 2025
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However late the hour and however long the road ahead, the cause of standing for justice, knowledge, and freedom isn’t yet doomed. Along the way, let the arts comfort, inspire, instruct, and help lead. That’s what they’re here for.

Book Review: “Fine” — Lad Lit That’s Keenly Aware of the Human Condition and Its Afflictions

February 14, 2025
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John Patrick Higgins is a deft writer whose prose often displays a spare lyricism. 

Film Festival Reviews: Sundance Fest 3 — Ukrainian War, Alabama Prisons and Assisted Suicide

February 13, 2025
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Films can transform the way that their subjects are seen, sometimes by just making a subject visible. That was the case with three films which were among the best that I saw at Sundance this year.

Television Review: “Cassandra” — Machine Mom

February 13, 2025
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Cassandra is yet another critique of AI, but it’s also a provocative commentary on motherhood.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

February 13, 2025
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This week’s poem: Corwin Ericson’s “The Saffron Robe of the Forest Monk”

Classical Music Album Review: Traversing Foreign Landscapes — Lei Liang’s “Dui”

February 13, 2025
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Chinese-American composer Lei Liang’s eclectic collection of ten thematic tracks could pass as a soundtrack to an artistic, surrealist film or an intense, psychological drama.

Book Review: “John Lewis: A Life” — A Sense of Intimacy

February 13, 2025
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David Greenberg has brought to life not only one unusual man but also the tumultuous racial history of our country in the second half of the 20th century and into the early years of the 21st century.

Musician Interview: John Pizzarelli Sings Sinatra

February 12, 2025
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Though John Pizzarelli has written and recorded his own material, his specialty has always been embracing and interpreting the tunes of the giants and legends and making them his own.

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