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Television Review: “The Studio” — The Kool-Aid Man Cometh

March 29, 2025
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The current state of Hollywood — terminal banality — is concerning. But that’s what makes it so perfect for a dose of acidic satire.

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Book Review: “The Jazz Omnibus” — The Ultimate Box Set of the Best Jazz Writing from the Last 25 Years

March 29, 2025
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Everyone who loves jazz, or makes a living somewhere in its world, owes a debt to many of the hard-working and under-paid writers of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA).

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Film Review: “Bob Trevino Likes It” — Finding an Inspiring New Lease on Life

March 28, 2025
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Tracie Laymon’s comic drama about the serendipitous connection between a 25-year-old woman whose sense of self is fraying and a man stymied by loss is both entertaining and profound.

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Doc Talk — Salem’s lot

March 27, 2025
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The best documentaries of 2025 can be seen at the Salem Film Fest.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 27, 2025
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This week’s poem: Norman Finkelstein’s “Poem”

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Author Interview: Commentator Elie Mystal on Laws That Piss Him Off — And You Should Be Pissed Off as Well

March 26, 2025
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“I didn’t want to write just another “orange man bad” book. I wanted to remind people that the world exists in the way that it does on purpose. We have chosen to live this way. We could choose tomorrow to NOT live this way and things would be better.”

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Film Review: Charles Burnett’s “The Annihilation of Fish” — An Odd Couple in Love

March 26, 2025
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Despite “The Annihilation of Fish”’s warmth and optimism, it’s a wonky film.

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Visual Arts Review: “Waters of the Abyss” — Beautiful Testaments to Haitian Resistance

March 26, 2025
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While offering a window into artist Fabiola Jean-Louis’s examination of her cultural and personal identity, the exhibit also provides a deeper understanding of the Haitian struggle for freedom.

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Film Reviews: A Dispatch from the 25th Boston Underground Film Festival (Part 2 of 2)

March 25, 2025
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We return to my coverage of the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival, our own little local celebration of oddballs, freaks, and celluloid weirdos of all sorts.

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Jazz Album Review: Pianist Paul Bley’s “Open, to love” — Waiting to Be Splashed With Sound

March 25, 2025
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What is most striking here is Paul Bley’s patience as a pianist, his practice of playing a chord or even a couple of notes and letting them hang in the air as if he were an outside observer, listening to their gradual fading.

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