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Musician Interview: The Sweet Remains Tour New England

August 22, 2025
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“The music I really respond to is by artists who have in some way captured a moment in an evocative way, a universal truth, something that feels honest and real. That’s what we try to do.”

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Film Review: Killing Time with Talk — Olivier Assayas’s “Suspended Time”

August 22, 2025
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If life among these four characters risks being so monotonous over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, just imagine what it must have been like to endure months of lockdown before a vaccine became available.

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Rock Concert Review: A Killer All-Star Edition of The Joe Perry Project

August 21, 2025
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But this wasn’t just a night for the hits. It was an occasion for raw, in-the-trenches rock (none of Aerosmith’s later commercial dreck) and rarely, if ever, played songs.

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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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