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Book Review: “The Bottom of the Jar” — An Indelible Glimpse of Moroccan Life

April 25, 2013
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Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi’s autobiographical fiction draws deeply on his own childhood in Fez during the late 1940s and especially the 1950s.

Concert Review: Pianist Evgeny Kissin — An Extraordinary Recital

April 25, 2013
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In my experience, few leave an Evgeny Kissin concert disappointed.

Critical Commentary: Speaking Truth to Waning Power

April 24, 2013
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Nowhere do I say in the piece that The Arts Fuse is all good and everyone else is all bad.

Visual Arts Feature: The Design Museum Boston Invites You to Sit Yourself Down

April 24, 2013
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In a modest tweak of Dorothy Fields’ lyrics to the famous Jerome Kern song, this weekend will be Boston’s chance, via the Design Museum Boston, to sit yourself down, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

Classical Music Feature: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 Season — An Appraisal

April 24, 2013
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Next season’s stale programming certainly derives from the BSO’s lack of a music director guiding and shaping the overall course of the season.

Fuse News: The Worst Job in America — Because It Doesn’t Pay

April 23, 2013
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It’s official. The 2013 jobs report of an organization called CareerCast rated “newspaper reporter” as the worst job in America.

Music Commentary: The 15th Annual New England Metalfest — Blunt Over Pretty

April 23, 2013
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I was curious to see how the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent events would filter into the fest. It began with my Facebook newsfeed displaying “Going to Worcester to blow off steam”-type messages.

Fuse News: R.I.P. Richie Havens

April 22, 2013
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There was probably no better summing up of Woodstock Nation than the lines, “Sometimes, I feel, like a motherless child/A long ways from my home.”

Cultural Commentary: Why is Boston’s Arts Coverage So Bland?

April 22, 2013
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According to our docile mainstream media, Boston enjoys a perpetual Renaissance — the merchandise in the cultural window is always worth buying. And that predictability makes for very boring journalism.

Fuse News: What Cinema Says About the Boston Marathon Bombing

April 22, 2013
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A movie critic can’t help but tie the Boston Marathon tragedies to the cinema, and so John Frankenheimer’s “Black Sunday” (1977) obviously flashes to mind.

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