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Jazz Album Review: Club d’Elf Blends Gnawa and Jam-Band Energy on “Loon & Thrush”

April 20, 2026
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Mike Rivard’s rotating collective has blended dub, jazz, Moroccan trance, funk, electronica, hip-hop, and prog into its heady stew.

Jazz Album Reviews: Young Fire, Fearless Sound — Trumpeters Adam O’Farrill and Dave Adewumi Push Jazz Forward

April 19, 2026
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Two standout releases showcase adventurous composition, tight ensemble interplay, and the next wave of trumpet-driven jazz.

Dance Review: Angkor Troupe’s “Swan Lake” — Trauma into Triumph

April 19, 2026
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Turn the lake into a lotus pond and you can take it from there.

Visual Arts Review: Derrick Adams Turns Black Joy Into an Expansive World

April 19, 2026
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Jubilant collages, TV motifs, and immersive rooms celebrate 25 years of Black artist Derrick Adams’s inventive practice.

Television Review: “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” Tackles Sex Work, Survival, and Suburban Hypocrisy

April 18, 2026
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A sharp, locally grounded dramedy that captures the contradictions of suburban Southern California — and the steep cost of survival for young women.

Film Retrospective: Conmen and Catastrophe — The Works of Béla Tarr and László Krasznahorkai

April 16, 2026
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A retrospective of four films by those two Hungarian artists unfolds as a monochromatic monolith of mud, misery, human folly, and inexorable corruption.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

April 16, 2026
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This week’s poem: James Cook’s “Suffering Is Not Special”

Theater Review: “When Playwrights Kill” — A Wickedly Funny Backstage Farce About Art, Ego, and Desperation

April 16, 2026
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In this high-energy comedy of creative frustration, history—and hubris—repeat themselves to hilarious effect.

Book Review: Wilhelm Furtwängler in Wartime – Reflections on Ian Buruma’s “Stay Alive”

April 16, 2026
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If there is a through-line consolidating Ian Buruma’s account, it is the admonition: Do not rush to judgment.

Book Review: Saints, Oysters, and the Weight of Melancholy in Nancy Lemann’s New Orleans

April 15, 2026
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I was surprised by how smoothly each book went down, with a little tingle of acidic satire lingering on the palate.

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