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Film Reviews: Two “Rocky Horror” Documentaries Mark the Film’s Golden Anniversary

June 19, 2026
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“Strange Journey” traces the origins of one of cinema’s most unlikely cults. “Time Warp” shows why it still matters.

Author Interview: Rethinking 1968 — Beyond the Stereotypes

June 19, 2026
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In “1968,” historian Alexander Bloom challenges the clichés of counterculture and reflects on a year of global rupture.

Classical Album Review: Paul Huang Performs Korngold & Barber Violin Concertos

June 19, 2026
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A polished, detail-rich account of two lyrical concertos, distinguished more by clarity and refinement than by risk or fire.

Theater Review: “Black Swan” — Beauty, Madness, and a Misguided Musical

June 19, 2026
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Despite striking choreography and a tour-de-force lead, the A.R.T.’s adaptation of Black Swan can’t escape the film’s excesses—or its own thin score.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

June 18, 2026
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This week’s poem: Joe Elliot’s “after No Other Land”

Film Reviews — Dispatch from the Provincetown International Film Festival 2026

June 18, 2026
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At this year’s festival, films by Greg Araki and others explore erotic power, artistic identity, and spiritual unease—alongside a quietly inspiring portrait of painter Anne Packard.

Book Review: “Summer of Freedom” — History Lit by Flashbulb

June 18, 2026
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Oliver Hilmes’s “Summer of Freedom” offers vivid snapshots of 1945—but little sense of why the world changed.

Visual Arts Review: “Persistent Curiosity” — Urgent Questions

June 18, 2026
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A Provincetown exhibition pairs data and aesthetics to reveal how artists and scientists alike are driven to understand—and protect—the ocean’s shifting world.

Arts Commentary: The Kennedy Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra — A Tale of Two Crises

June 18, 2026
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A court-ordered reset in Washington and a self-inflicted rupture in Boston expose deeper failures of leadership, transparency, and trust.

Film Review: Desire and Damnation in “Leviticus”

June 17, 2026
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A queer horror romance turns conversion therapy into a chilling supernatural curse—and a potent metaphor for fear, shame, and survival.

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