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Music Review: Jason Isbell, Laid-Back — More Country Than Country-Rock

February 29, 2016
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Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).

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Fuse Coming Attractions: February 28 Events

February 28, 2016
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This week’s Coming Attractions will be posted later today, but here are two events of note that are taking place today, Sunday, February 28.

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Fuse Oscar Predictions 2016 — Who Should Win? Who Will Win?

February 28, 2016
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Eight nominees? WTF, Academy? If you’re going to change the structure to allow ten nominees, then have ten nominees!

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Stage Review: Sonic Life on the Office Floor — The Bitter Truth

February 28, 2016
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Okada’s play reflects how skepticism has become the default stance for young adults shellshocked by post-recession economic restructuring.

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Film Review: “A War” — Despair, Carefully Calibrated

February 27, 2016
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The movie plays all sides equally, providing no answers, no favorites, no villains, no heroes. Everybody’s motives and ethics are in question.

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Music Feature: At 76, Singer Mavis Staples Continues to be an Antidote to Despair

February 27, 2016
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Mavis Staples’ voice and stage presence still exude power, still plumb emotional and spiritual depths.

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Arts Interview: Postmodernism with the late Umberto Eco

February 25, 2016
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“All my effort is to transform machines into narrative, to show how much narrative power they have inside them, how they can tell stories.”

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Visual Arts: Stunning “Intersections” at Peabody Essex Museum

February 25, 2016
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In a period of radicalism and terrorism, this installation serves as a beacon for remembering the beauty of the best of Islamic creative culture.

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Theater Review: “1984” — It’s Later Than You Think

February 24, 2016
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1984‘s theatrical vision of authoritarianism in action is not for the faint of heart.

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Arts Commentary: Reviving Memories of BSO Superstar Conductor Serge Koussevitzky

February 22, 2016
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Hardly any of the under-60s generation can tell you who Serge Koussevitzky was or what his legacy consists of.

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