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Coming Attractions in Jazz: Labor Day Weekend 2012

September 1, 2012
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By J. R. Carroll Even on the Labor Day Weekend, September 2012 gets off to strong start with a Billy Strayhorn tribute in Hyde Park and some special visitors from Brazil. Saturday, September 1, at 2 p.m. at the Martini Shell on Truman Parkway, the third annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival offers a triple bill…

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Fuse Arts Commentary: WGBH Damage Control — Lip Service for Jazz

August 29, 2012
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The plans to serve the jazz community that WGBH offered to JazzBoston during the meeting, from an internet jazz station to making Eric Jackson more visible on the station’s talk shows, are only part and parcel of the strategic dithering, a cover for lowering standards and doing little.

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Visual Arts Feature: A Workshop with Barry Moser, Abstract Bookwright

August 29, 2012
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Barry Moser’s decision to illustrate, in the end, is an extension of his probity. He would have been a fine abstractionist, but he found that he was better able to make art when he exiled himself from the kingdom of capital-A Art.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Satchmo at the Waldorf” — An Off-Key Portrait of a Jazz Giant

August 26, 2012
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As Louis Armstrong, the gifted actor John Douglas Thompson is working with a script whose lines and contours are as woefully predictable as a profile in the old Life Magazine.

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Poetry Review: Jane Shore’s “That Said” — Early and Late

August 24, 2012
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If the poems in “That Said: New and Selected Poems” had been ordered differently, the volume would have made more of its virtues.

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Fuse TV Review: Netflix Keeps “Arrested Development” For the Sake of Our Sanity

August 23, 2012
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Had “Arrested Development” been aired after the recession, the series’ chances for survival would have benefited from the nation’s need for a healthy laugh at a time of monetary meltdown.

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Concert Review: Tanglewood Throws A Birthday Bash — John Williams Turns 80

August 22, 2012
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Composer John Williams has often stated that Tanglewood has been among his favorite places to visit — and the feeling is mutual.

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Book Commentary: A Case for Negative Book Reviews

August 22, 2012
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Why does Laura Miller feel, given her belief that negative reviews are often useless, that she has to kick criticism while it is down? Why argue against the efforts of a small number of delusional reviewers in major publications who continue to speak fruitless negativity to the indifferent masses?

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Book Review: “The Barcelona Brothers” — A Nasty Piece of Spanish Noir

August 22, 2012
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International noir novels no longer revolve around exotic police procedurals or gimmicky detective stories. They aim to pound readers into the pavement.

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