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Doc Talk: Stranger Than (Science) Fiction at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

February 11, 2025
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A pair of documentaries challenge the fantasies in the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

Film Festival Reviews: Sundance 2 – Sly Stone, A Left-Leaning Israeli Comedian, and Teen Journalism 

February 10, 2025
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A trio of documentaries: one explores an under-recognized Black musician, while the other two focus on a leftist Israeli comedian and crusading teen journalists.

Dance Reviews: Mood Swings — A Boston Weekend of Percussive Dance

February 10, 2025
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Whereas tap dancer Caleb Teicher is all idiosyncrasy, the Trinity Dancers wow by their perfect unison.

Visual Arts Review: “Cat Mazza: Network” — Weaving Technology and Tradition in Political Art

February 10, 2025
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This show uses an impressively clever use of technology to create sign posts on a path through labor history, psychiatry, and textile design.

Film Review: “Armand” — Drowning in Portent

February 10, 2025
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In his debut feature, director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel mistakes gratuitous strangeness for genuinely uncanny adventure.

Book Review: “Making No Compromise” — The Story of the “Little Review” That Could

February 8, 2025
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The book continually underlines the important cultural role little magazines played, and how women were central to their existence as founders, editors, contributors, critics, and patrons.

Book Review: The Many Faces of Elaine May

February 7, 2025
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This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.

Film Festival Reviews: Sundance Offered a Mix of Films as Festival Sought a New Home

February 6, 2025
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My guess is that if Sundance survives, it won’t look like the Sundance we know.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

February 6, 2025
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This week’s poem: Tess Riordan’s “sunrise, 500 b.c.e.”

Theater Review: “Life & Times of Michael K” — Refusing to Be Erased

February 5, 2025
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This moving, at times beautiful, production evokes Michael K’s vision of purity, a rejection of collective cruelty and madness that asserts human dignity’s last stand — as an animal.

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