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Book Review: “No Way Home” — A Memoir with Quirk and Heft

April 10, 2018
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No Way Home is a model for how to tell a weird, complicated story in a way that will make the reader hang on tight for the whole ride.

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Concert Review: Handel & Haydn Society Plays Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”

April 9, 2018
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A thoroughly charismatic Fairy Queen from start to finish, well-prepared, fulgently delivered, and received by a packed house with well-earned warmth.

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Book Review: “Pandora’s Box” — An Illuminating Study of Epic Destruction

April 9, 2018
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Pandora’s Box never tosses the reader into a roiling overload of facts and figures, but looks at the horrors of WWI from many different, illuminating angles.

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Theater Review: “The Niceties” — A Gentle Slap Awake?

April 9, 2018
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The Niceties gives us an invaluable opportunity to hover outside of the current political debate about race and American history.

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Jazz CD Review: Edward Simon’s “Sorrows & Triumphs”

April 7, 2018
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One doesn’t have to have gone too deeply into Buddhism to recognize its influence on the titles found here, and perhaps on the music as well.

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Coming Attractions: April 8 through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 6, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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For the Love of Arts Criticism II: Arts Magazines and Bloggers Speak Out

April 6, 2018
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We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.

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Film Review: “Ramen Heads” — Delicious Obsession

April 6, 2018
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Food porn? You know it when you see it.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Requiem” — A Stylish, But Uneven, Occult Thriller

April 5, 2018
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If you’ve seen The Wicker Man and/or Hot Fuzz, you may recognize and appreciate the tone of these folk horror underpinnings.

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Film Commentary: Cast in “Chappaquiddick” — An Actor’s Perspective

April 4, 2018
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Chappaquiddick may satisfy some for whom Ted Kennedy was overdue for a comeuppance.

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