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Concert Review: Stevie Wonder at the TD Garden — A Thing of Beauty

November 14, 2014
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Not all musical retrospectives are a guaranteed success, since time can put rust on many a talent, but Stevie Wonder was ebulliently up for the challenge.

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Film Review: Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” — A Film of Skill and Passion

November 14, 2014
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Rosewater is a movie for the idealists, with the implied hope that a principled and conscientious mass media can give the new breed of technologically savvy activists a louder voice.

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Book Review: Jack Kerouac in Mexico — Fiction Dressed as Fact

November 13, 2014
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Reading this book is like listening to a lively conversation from a self-proclaimed Kerouac authority giving his opinions over a café con leche late at night at Cafe Pamplona in Harvard Square.

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Theater Review: “Make My Heart Flutter” — The Father of Israeli Drama Looks at the Foolishness of Infatuation

November 13, 2014
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To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.

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Visual Arts Feature: When a SEVEN Is More Than a Seven

November 13, 2014
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Most museums today dream of coming up with striking public images. In that sense, the Portland Museum of Art’s acquisition of SEVEN combines a significant artistic statement with a marketing coup.

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Fuse Movie Review: “Force Majeure” — Dad Goes Downhill Fast

November 12, 2014
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You may never taking the family on a ski trip again after watching Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s icily satiric study of a family’s breakdown after a near-disastrous avalanche.

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Visual Arts Review: Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals — Splendidly Revived

November 11, 2014
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Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.

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Fuse Concert Review: Celebrating the Life and Music of Pianist/Composer Jan Jarczyk

November 11, 2014
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A vigorous and admiring tribute to Jan Jarczyk, a man his daughter called “a whirlwind of creativity.”

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Fuse Music Feature: 12th International Pop Overthrow Boston Hits Allston

November 10, 2014
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“The name meant that we were going to present bands from all around the world, and that we wanted to ‘overthrow’ the pop establishment that had taken over radio.”

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Visual Arts Review: M. C. Escher — Shapeshifter Extraordinaire

November 10, 2014
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M.C. Escher’s extraordinary fantasy constructions are captivating visual environments whose frisky improbability beguile.

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