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Book News: “The Old Priest” — A Finalist for the 2014 PEN/Hemingway Award

April 11, 2014
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Arts Fuse writer Anthony Wallace talks about the latest accolade for his short story collection “The Old Priest” — it was a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Hemingway Award.

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Film Feature: Barbara Stanwyck – On Page and On Screen, “The Most Modern of the Great Movie Stars”

April 11, 2014
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It has the makings of a Barbara Stanwyck boomlet: Victoria Wilson visited Boston to talk about the first volume of her major biography of the star, and the actress can be seen on-screen at the Harvard Film Archive.

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Fuse Music Interview: The “Grease” guy –The Bo-Keys and John Nemeth bring the Memphis Sound to Town

April 11, 2014
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Scott Bomar’s multi-generational band The Bo-Keys has almost single-handedly kept the soul tradition of the Stax and Hi labels alive.

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Film Review: “The Unknown Known” — As Insanely Entertaining as a Mad Hatter Tea Party.

April 11, 2014
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My first thought: filming Donald Rumsfeld can only be rationalized if it’s a front for a citizen’s arrest.

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Theater Review: “Nalaga’at” (Please Touch) — A Daring Dramatic Struggle Against Absence

April 10, 2014
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Theater is a public art. And yet, the irony here is that the most profound communication between individuals can be the least publicly communicable.

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Film Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”

April 10, 2014
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Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.

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Visual Arts Review: “Dear Boston” — A Moving Memorial to the First Anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing

April 9, 2014
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It is difficult to describe how moving these simple, mundane objects are in the context of this exhibition.

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Book Review: “To the End of the Land” — A Work of Art About Israel, Fear, and Love

April 9, 2014
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“To the End of the Land” is about the devastation of war, how war erodes the human spirit, yet how that spirit is far more resilient that we may have ever suspected.

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Concert Review: Neil Finn — A Modest Master Songwriter

April 9, 2014
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As a solo artist, Neil Finn’s moved away from straightforward pop and toward a moodier sound, with lyrics asking bigger questions about life and mortality.

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Book Review: David Grossman’s “Falling Out of Time” — It Takes A Village

April 7, 2014
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“Falling Out of Time” is a book that gives all the truth that Israeli writer David Grossman can deliver, and far more intimacy than we strangers who are his readers have earned.

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