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Television Review: “Chupa” — An Adorable Little Monster

April 14, 2023
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What makes Chupa stand out from similar films is that, at its heart, it is a testament to embracing your heritage.

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Book Review: Kat Meads’s “These Particular Women” — Celebrating Women Who Misbehave

April 14, 2023
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Poet, essayist, and novelist Kat Meads puts readers in the presence of women whose lives were often “spectacularly awry.”

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Visual Arts/Book Review: “Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Travel Albums” — Upper Class Gilded Age Tourism

April 14, 2023
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Faced with the dual dilemmas of the opacity of the albums themselves and the now painfully obvious narrative of colonialism, wealth, and white privilege, some of Fellow Wanderer’s authors dodge into more easily researched side issues.

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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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