Search Results: All Light Everywhere

Short Fuse: Meditating on the Psychedelic Realism of “Mad Men”

April 6, 2013
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But there’s something else going on in “Mad Men,” all the more because it’s latent, unannounced, episode by episode. It’s this thing about art and advertising, and the difference, circa that era, if any.

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Coming Attractions: February 24 through March 12 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 24, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Book Review: “Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends” — A Frothy, Gossip-filled Bauble

December 4, 2019
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If you are a fan of Mike Nichols’ large and elegant body of work, you’ll regret as I did that the authors did not take the time to create the kind of book he deserved.

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Television Commentary: “The Sopranos” 20 Years Later — American Viciousness, Legitimized

February 13, 2019
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I find it a little disturbing how The Soprano’s themes seem to have culminated in the election of our current President.

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Visual Arts: Improving on the Unfinished Past, Or Schwartz on the Radio

July 26, 2010
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Although I was quadruply nervous—about my historical and art-historical knowledge, my Dutch, my speaking voice, and my presence of mind—I enjoyed the tapings for the radio and have no reason to think that I committed any terrible gaffes. By Gary Schwartz My late Sunday mornings over the past decades have been torn between quiet work…

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Coming Attractions: August 27 through September 12 — What Will Light Your Fire

August 27, 2023
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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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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Coming Attractions: May 6 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 6, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Music Feature: At the Lowell Folk Festival — “Da Butt” is no joke for EU

July 24, 2014
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Sugar Bear and his legendary go-go band are coming to the Lowell Folk Festival.

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Book Review/Interview: “Listen, Liberal” — What’s the Matter with the Democrats?

August 19, 2016
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Bay Staters, take heed: according to Thomas Frank the problem isn’t just with the Party, but with the reliably blue states as well.

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