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Children’s Book Feature: Worried about Home Schooling? Relax — and Read

May 14, 2020
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Even though options for parents abound, the very best option remains the simplest — pick up a book, snuggle up, and read.

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Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Handel & Haydn Society

May 14, 2020
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“We are in a time that challenges each of us running arts organizations to revisit and reaffirm our institution’s core existential purpose: why are we here? What do we do, and why does it matter?”

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Visual Arts Commentary: Life After Lockdown — Designs for Future Living After COVID-19

May 13, 2020
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These products are imaginative clues to what our ‘new normal’ future will be like.

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THE ARTS FUSE TURNS 13! — Our Spring Appeal

May 13, 2020
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During this crisis, please help sustain this independent magazine’s commitment to keeping our arts and culture vibrant and alive.

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Book Review: “Telephone” — Sounding Alternatives

May 12, 2020
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The “choose your own adventure” turns out not to be a gimmick; setting up alternatives makes Telephone more affecting than Everett’s self-consciously directionless narrative may deserve.

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Arts Remembrance: Darick Campbell — Quiet Giant of the Sacred Steel Guitar

May 12, 2020
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Darick Campbell was one of the Campbell Brothers, the Rochester-based group whose emergence on the roots music circuit in the late ’90s played a major role in the mainstream discovery of the sound known as “sacred steel.”

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Television Review: “The Eddy” — Damien Chazelle and Jazz — Love/Hate or Hate/Love?

May 11, 2020
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One of the show’s impressive accomplishments is that its creators managed to find musicians who could act.

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Rock Album Review: Car Seat Headrest’s “Making a Door Less Open” — A Bumpy Ride

May 11, 2020
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Car Seat Headrest’s drive to show us something fresh permeates Making a Door Less Open, and that is admirable.

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Visual Arts Feature: Memories of a Veteran Boston Gallerist — Mario Diacono

May 11, 2020
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Mario Diacono’s Boston shows were legendary.

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Arts Appreciation: Howells in the Dark — William Dean, We Still Hardly Know Ye

May 11, 2020
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A hundred years ago today one of the most influential writers and editors in American history, William Dean Howells, died in Manhattan at the age of 83.

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