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Film Review: “Only in Theaters” — Tough Times for a West Coast Art House Movie Chain

April 14, 2023
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Southern California’s venerable Laemmle Theaters is facing a triple whammy: financial failure, shrinking audiences, and Covid closures.

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Theater Reviews – This Broadway Season Welcomes Revivals of “Parade,” “Dancin’,” and “Sweeney Todd”

April 13, 2023
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Musical revivals are stealing the show on Broadway this season – some more successfully than others

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Music Interview: Singer/Songwriter Peter Case Talks About His New England Connections and “Doctor Moan”

April 13, 2023
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“I go out on the road and the clubs are full everywhere I go,” Peter Case gratefully acknowledges. “People come out to hear me play. It’s an amazing gift to have that.

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Film Review: “Showing Up” — A Gentle Portrait of a Portland Artist

April 13, 2023
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Showing Up offers a much different kind of artist and art scene than we’re used to seeing in film.

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Film Review: “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” – When John and Yoko Briefly Became John and May

April 13, 2023
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A new documentary about the John Lennon and May Pang affair is insightful but not exactly unbiased

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Book Review: Elizabeth Graver’s “Kantika” — A Vibrant Portrait of Bravery

April 13, 2023
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Kantika is Elizabeth Graver’s poignant homage to her grandmother, but it is also a testament to her talent as a storyteller, to make a narrative so believable and compelling and, indeed, sometimes funny, just as it is in life.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

April 13, 2023
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Here’s this week’s poem, Debra Cash’s “The Boat: April 19, 2013.”

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Book Review: “The Red Balcony” — A Novel About the Muddled Predicament of the Diaspora Jew

April 12, 2023
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The plot of The Red Balcony ticks along briskly. Jonathan Wilson is a gifted narrator and scene-maker.

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Opera Album Review: The Love of a Fish-Man for a Terrestrial Woman, French-Baroque Style

April 12, 2023
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A masterful composer of French Baroque violin sonatas displays another side of his immense talent in this first-rate new recording of his Scylla et Glaucus.

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Book Review: “Harvard Square: A Love Story” — Passion Collides with the Logic of the Market

April 11, 2023
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We are understandably upset when market forces threaten the things we consider to be sacred.

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