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Theater Review: “Ain’t No Mo’” — Racism as a Surreal Farce

January 16, 2025
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Few could doubt this satire’s relevance, given the alarming results of November’s election: a convicted felon, whose minions lean into racist and sexist tropes, is back in the White House.

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Opera Album Review: Racine’s Tragedy “Andromaque” Finds New Life in Rossini’s Splendidly Serious “Ermione”

January 16, 2025
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Another excellent recording from the “Rossini in Wildbad” festival, with spellbinding vocal performances by Congolese tenor Patrick Kabongo and other powerful young singers.

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Television Review: Macondo Redux — A Progress Report on Netflix’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

January 16, 2025
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Adapting such a monumental work, a novel that is loved by so many, is both ambitious and risky.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 15, 2025
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This week’s poem: Clara Burghelea’s “How to resist gluttonous grief”

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Book Review: “Murder in the Dressing Room” — Enter: A Drag Queen Shamus

January 15, 2025
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The book marks a marvelous entrance by an important new heroine onto the mystery stage: a drag queen, who goes in and out of her drag character as she investigates the murder of a friend.

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Book Review: “Falling in Love at the Movies” — Head Over Reels

January 14, 2025
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For those who are new to rom-coms, “Falling in Love at the Movies” is an informative introduction to their mechanics.

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Theater Review: “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” — Lost in the Past

January 13, 2025
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At its best, this script offers an opportunity for audiences to cast a backward glance at the first stirrings of dramatist Lynn Nottage’s prolific canon.

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Film Review: The Fascinating Documentary “Eno” — Every Screening Is Different

January 13, 2025
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The new bio-doc about producer-musician Brian Eno looks at the artist’s life and his creative process in a deliberately provocative new format.

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Film Review: Deconstructing “The Brutalist”

January 13, 2025
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Like all accomplished directors – and architects – Brady Corbet has orchestrated a team of outstanding collaborators into shaping his vision.

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Film Review: “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — Putting Corporate Cogs on Notice

January 12, 2025
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In their latest divinely idiosyncratic romp, Wallace & Gromit take on the threat of that most impersonal and worrisome technology: AI.

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