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Film Commentary: Zombie Apocalypse, Re-Imagined — The Legacy of “28 Days Later”

June 20, 2025
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Where is the grandiose zombie apocalypse that illuminates the grotesque reality of the death-denying yet death-obsessed beings we’ve become? Ralph Fiennes knows.

Film Reviews: Three at the Provincetown Film Festival

June 20, 2025
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Films about relationships are often the best offerings in the Provincetown Film Festival, and several of the narrative films at this year’s go-around were about seeking connection.

Jazz Album Reviews: Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans — Two Indispensable Recordings

June 20, 2025
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Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.

Concert Review: The Chicago Blues Festival — A Reassuring Vision of the Future

June 19, 2025
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This year’s Chicago Blues Festival provided plenty of hope for the blues.

Film Review: “28 Years Later” — World War ZZZZ…

June 19, 2025
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“28 Years Later” is too little, too late.

Classical Music Album Reviews: Ravel/Bach and Bruch & Korngold Violin Concertos

June 19, 2025
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Pianist Yeol Eum Son is more than up to the demands of J.S. Bach and Maurice Ravel; violinist Bomsori brings exquisite balances and shimmering sonority to Bruch and Korngold.

Visual Arts Review: “David Wojnarowicz” — A Partial View of an Activist Artist

June 19, 2025
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The artist’s focus on brutality is present in the show, but the anger and homoeroticism that infused so much of his work are missing.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

June 19, 2025
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This week’s poem: Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s “Al-Shifa”

Book Review: “The War of Art” — Waging Creative Defiance

June 19, 2025
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The book provides ample proof that activist artists, when determined, can use their work to influence our thinking in positive ways, and effect change.

Theater Review: “Our Class” — A Powerful Visual History Lesson

June 18, 2025
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The strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented production team.

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