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Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.
Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
The magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.
Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.
Beethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.
In 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.
Are people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?

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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