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Arts Feature: Music That Sustained Us Through the Year of the Pandemic

December 15, 2020
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With concerts all but wiped off the calendar by the pandemic, our critics naturally spent their time with recordings (and virtual live shows).

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Visual Arts Review: At the Currier Museum of Art and the MFA — Bask in the Deadly Splendor of the Samurai

April 27, 2013
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The time is short, but the opportunity rich via these two exhibitions, to bask in the military culture of old Japan, with all of its deadly splendor.

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Book Review: “Halcyon” — Plodding Speculative History

July 4, 2023
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How could such a multitalented guy go so wrong with such a clever concept? It wasn’t easy.

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Concert Review: Robyn Hitchcock — Reigning Godfather of Mind Expansion Music

November 26, 2019
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The Brit-born iteration of mind-expansion music — from Syd Barrett onward — favors clever wordplay and musical accessibility.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 6, 2013
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[updated] Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, film, and dance for the weekend and beyond.

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Coming Attractions: December 16 Through January 1 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 16, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Arts Commentary: “Fast Car” — Mainstream Country’s Detour from Diversity

July 19, 2023
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Black and openly queer women are not allowed in the Nashville club. Secretly gay white men are not doing too badly, though.

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Music Review: The Best and the Worst Releases of January 2019

February 9, 2019
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I’d like to close the first week of February with a recap of January’s new releases, the best and the worse.

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Book Review: “The Short End of the Sonnenallee” — A Sure Satiric Brush

October 4, 2023
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Cockeyed anecdotes roam merrily through a satiric tale set in an East Germany that’s too larky to be oppressive.

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CriticIsm Commentary: The Welcome Buccaneers of Arts Criticism

January 13, 2014
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“Criticism will always have the force of the child in the story about the emperor’s new clothes, because there will always be naked emperors who everybody says are wearing today’s Crown Jewels.” — Eric Bentley

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