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Book Review: “A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler” — A Hymn to Life

August 10, 2025
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As befits a prolific and distinguished poet, renowned for his visionary instincts and signature compositional technique, Nathan Kernan has produced an account of James Schuyler that is as morally serious as his subject.

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Film Review: “Weapons” — No Child Left Behind

August 9, 2025
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What sets “Weapons” apart from other films utilizing a puzzle-box approach is  Zach Cregger’s command of tone, a byproduct of honing his skills in sketch comedy.

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Book Review: “Ne me quitte pas” — A Guide to a Song That Crosses Borders

August 9, 2025
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This splendid book is a love letter and a dissertation, almost a song in itself.

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Film Review: “Monk in Pieces” — An Education of the (Genius) Girlchild

August 9, 2025
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What it cost Meredith Monk to be uncompromising! In the early days of her experimentations, the dismissive, often patronizing reviews included lines like her music “made my cats bite each other.”

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Music Festival Feature: The Bay State Hot Jazz Festival — Celebrating Early Jazz

August 8, 2025
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“What we didn’t want was just another jazz festival. I hope it never turns into that. We were focused on early jazz, traditional jazz from New Orleans, dating back to the 1920s and 30s, before the advent of the big band era.”

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Television Review: “King of the Hill” — Nicely Rebooted

August 8, 2025
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The targets of “King of the Hill”‘s satire have changed — as Texas culture has changed — but the relationships, and who the characters are at their core, have not.

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Film Review: Resistance Is Feudal in “Harvest”

August 7, 2025
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This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

August 7, 2025
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The week’s poem: Mark Scroggins’s “Zion Offramp 124”

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Music Festival Review: The Newport Jazz Festival — Challenging Expected Definitions

August 6, 2025
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Newport Jazz sold out all three days in advance for the second year in a row, which made scheduling the primary acts across three stages prone to occasional mismatches between space and demand. But it’s still a golden ticket.

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Television Review: “Chief of War” — Remembrance of Hawaii’s Past

August 6, 2025
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Hopefully, Hollywood will take note of this impressive dramatic accomplishment, and more Indigenous stories will follow.

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