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Book Review: Advertisements for Democracy — Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence

April 9, 2023
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Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.

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Classical Music Album Review: Klaus Mäkelä conducts Stravinsky

April 9, 2023
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While one is willing to grant a 27-year-old conductor some benefit of the doubt, there’s little here to suggest that the Great Nordic Hope of Classical Music isn’t simply out of his depth.

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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Coriolanus” — Kicked to the Curb

April 9, 2023
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Over the years I have seen several productions of Coriolanus, and this one is by far the most perfunctory.

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Film Review: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” — Act Now!

April 9, 2023
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For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.

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Children’s Book Feature: How to Say Hello to Local Author-Illustrator Kari Percival

April 9, 2023
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Kari Percival’s greatest thrill? Reading How to Say Hello to a Worm aloud to kids whose faces “light up” as she turns the pages.

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Concert Review: Le Vent du Nord — Five Formidable Quebecois Voices

April 9, 2023
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Touring to support their 20th anniversary CD, 20 Printemps, Le Vent du Nord delivered  a master class in musicianship.

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Film Review: “The Worst Ones” — Dramatizing the Children of the Underclass

April 9, 2023
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The Worst Ones is a distinctive cinematic achievement – it is deeply moving film that offers a critique of itself.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

April 9, 2023
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Here’s this week’s poem, “Introduction to Fractals or How They Last”.

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Children’s Books Roundup: Spring Is Here!

April 4, 2023
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There are so many ways to celebrate the arrival of spring with kids. You can take a walk in the rain, look for flowers or grass sprouting in sidewalk cracks, or plant a garden. After your adventures, you can settle down and read these books.

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Book Review: “Look at the Lights, My Love” — Meditations in a Superstore

April 4, 2023
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Can Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux lend literary dignity to a big-box store?

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