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Coming Attractions: February 2 through 17 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 2, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: “Plastic” Novel? Musical? Anime?

February 2, 2025
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“Plastic” would have been much more effective if it had taken the form of an anime or a cartoon.

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Film Review: “I’m Still Here” — They’re Still Here

February 2, 2025
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Fascism is faced down in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece.

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February Short Fuses — Materia Critica

February 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Arts Remembrance: Marianne Faithfull — A Singular Talent Who Pursued an Oft-Perilous Life

February 1, 2025
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The resolute British singer/actress survived addiction, homelessness, cancer and Covid, which left her in a coma before she completed work on her final album in 2021.

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Poetry Review: “Foxglovewise” — Contending With Presence and Absence

January 31, 2025
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The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.

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Musician Interview: Jerry Cantrell Gets Ready To Rock The House Of Blues

January 31, 2025
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Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and I talked about the making of his latest recording, his most recent two solo albums versus his previous two, and his thoughts about his Boston fans.

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Visual Arts Review: Joana Choumali — No End of Stuff

January 30, 2025
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This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 30, 2025
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This week’s poem: Alan Smith Soto’s “As on a familiar journey”

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Concert Review: The Many Charms of Pianist Bill Charlap

January 28, 2025
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Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.

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