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Film Review: “Greta” — A Tedious, Ugly Stalker Film

March 3, 2019
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Greta is a slight, uninspired by-the-numbers genre film — we’ve seen this paranoia-inducing tale too often.

Book Interview: Tina Cassidy on the Woman Who Made Women’s Sufferage Happen

March 3, 2019
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Tina Cassidy talks about her revealing and enjoyable new book about how a woman’s right to vote became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Film Review: 5 Women Filmmakers — A Sampling of the Superb

March 2, 2019
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This is a finely-selected sampling of what some accomplished women filmmakers offered in 2018.

Theater Review: “The Little Foxes” — American Greed Triumphant

March 2, 2019
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The Lyric Stage Company’s The Little Foxes is taut, tense, and eerily reflective of our own uneasy, pernicious times.

Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture

March 2, 2019
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In very different ways and on very different topics, three recent books assuage notions that architecture/design books are formidable reads.

Author Interview: Writer Clive James — Writing Against the Dying of the Light

March 1, 2019
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Imagine a combination of Stephen Colbert (the real one, that is) and John Updike.

Arts Fuse Podcast #11: Talking With Lloyd Schwartz — And Skinny Jerry Garcia and Nixon Read Poetry

March 1, 2019
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We were overjoyed to spend this episode with Pulitzer prize winning critic, poet, and teacher Lloyd Schwartz. Stick around for the poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, too

Classical CD Reviews: Colin Davis’s “Berlioz Odyssey,” “Bernard Haitink: Portrait,” and “The Age of Revolutions”

March 1, 2019
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Anniversaries are both the bane and the lifeblood of the classical music industry as, for better or worse, three new box sets remind.

Film Review: “Greta” — Psycho Thriller, Qui Est-Ce?

February 28, 2019
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A B-movie par excellence, Greta’s the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.

Book Review: “Making Music American — 1917 and the Transformation of Culture”

February 28, 2019
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1917 was an important year, but perhaps not important enough to justify the sweeping title of the book.

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