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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

August 21, 2025
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This week’s poem: L Scully’s “Fibonacci sequence”

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Book Review: “A Dog in Georgia” — The Gap Between Privilege and Peril

August 21, 2025
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This is a well-crafted story about the gulf between well-off Americans who can safely ignore power politics in their daily lives (and how many of us are doing just that!) and those at the edge of being oppressed or crushed by them. 

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Rock Concert Review: The Black Keys — Back in the Zone

August 19, 2025
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The band tucked two songs from its new album into a career-spanning 95-minute show tilted toward six tunes from the Black Keys’ 2010 commercial breakthrough “Brothers.”

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Film Review: “Highest 2 Lowest” Is Somewhere in Between

August 17, 2025
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The times are out of joint for Spike Lee.

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Coming Attractions: August 17 Through September 1 — What Will Light Your Fire

August 17, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Opera Album Review: A Stirring “Samson,” Written a Decade Before Saint-Saëns’s, Receives Its Premiere Recording

August 17, 2025
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Joachim Raff, widely hailed for his instrumental works, is finally being recognized as a significant opera composer as well.

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Art and Design Commentary: Art Deco at 100 — Happy Birthday!

August 16, 2025
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Still fresh and energetic today, the Art Deco period — which influenced the construction or fabrication of buildings as well as luxury décor and functional objects — is considered one of the finest moments in design history.

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Short Fuse Podcast #72: Bearing Witness — Theatre in South Africa

August 15, 2025
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Elizabeth Howard talks with actor, director, playwright, influential drama lecturer, and theatre administrator Malcolm Purkey, who shares his personal journey through the world of theatre during a time of political upheaval in South Africa.

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Film Series Review: “Scary Movies XII” — What Frightens Us Now?

August 14, 2025
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Grief and generational trauma have become the horror movie villains of our time, taking the spot once occupied by masked killers.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

August 14, 2025
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This week’s poem: David Mills’s “Curtain Call”

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