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Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
Read MoreThe magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.
Read MoreCharlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.
Read MoreBeethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Read MoreAbraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.
Read MoreIn his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.
Read MoreAre people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?
Read MoreThe actors’ infectious energy and absolute dedication to imaginative play-acting help make Arabian Nights spellbinding.
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Fuse Remembrance: Kurt Masur (1927-2015)
Kurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.
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