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Visual Arts Review: Jordan Eagles — Art Made of Blood in All Its Ruddy Glory

April 28, 2014
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Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?

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Television Review: A Rousing Documentary on the Liberal Gusto of Ann Richards

April 28, 2014
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This fine, partisan documentary resurrects Ann Richards, and it’s showing on HBO in a Lone Star election year. The Republicans better worry about Texans seeing it.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 27, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Visual Arts Review: Designing the California State of Mind

April 27, 2014
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California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.

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Film Reviews: Flesh and Fantasy in the Art House

April 26, 2014
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Two new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.

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Concert Review: Better Than Ezra — Much Better Than Okay

April 26, 2014
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Better than Ezra may be more than a hardworking, nice-guy band permanently fated to be overshadowed by more significant artists.

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Book Review: “The Marrying of Chani Kaufman” — The World of the Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Treated With Verve and Empathy

April 25, 2014
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Beneath the humor and the warmth and the charm of this novel, author Eve Harris bears witness to an existence far more complex and troubled than Ultra-Orthodox Jews might like to admit.

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Fuse News: Two Milestones – Shakespeare’s 450th and Anthony Burgess’ 50th

April 25, 2014
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“Nothing Like the Sun” remains, for my money, among the best works of fiction inspired by Shakespeare’s life.

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Jazz Week 2014: Wall-to-Wall Jazz with No Walls

April 24, 2014
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Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.

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Television Commentary: Whither Stephen Colbert?

April 23, 2014
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Now that the dust has settled after the announcement that Stephen Colbert will be replacing David Letterman on “The Late Show” next year, it is time for some thoughtful analysis.

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