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TV Review: HBO’s “Looking” — Gay Life as Sweet and Sincerely Humanist

January 22, 2014
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Without being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” offers a fine lesson that being totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cool (and also hot hot) existence.

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Film Review: Two Amazing Stories of Triumph at this Year’s Reelabilities Film Festival

January 21, 2014
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Hidden among the screenings at this year’s Reelabilities: Boston Disabilities Film Festival are two strong tales of individuals overcoming incredible odds.

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Fuse Music Review: Emmanuel Music’s “A Little Night Music” — An Uneven Evening

January 21, 2014
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With a Stephen Sondheim show, it’s all in the casting, and Emmanuel Music’s casting was a mixed bag.

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Film Review: “The Genius of Marian” — A Deeply Moving Look at the Devastation of Alzheimer’s Disease

January 21, 2014
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“The Genius of Marian,” the new documentary from directors Banker White and Anita Fitch, depicts the bitter process of absorbing disaster, with White’s mother as the subject.

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Film Commentary: “Inside Llewyn Davis” — Another Perspective

January 20, 2014
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Among the important things the filmmakers get right — the elemental pissiness of a scene that is far smaller than it is envisioned by the narcissists who once occupied it.

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Fuse Interview: The Creative Faith of Damien Jurado

January 20, 2014
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“With this new record, we said we were going to use every influence I have, we’re basically going to rip the brakes out of the car and just push this thing down the hill.”

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Book Review: Art Historian Bernard Berenson — Reinvention as the American Dream

January 19, 2014
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Cohen devotes little space to Bernard Berenson’s art historical methodology, now largely superseded by modern approaches. She relates Berenson’s less admirable qualities without judging them.

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Concert Review: The Pixies at the Orpheum

January 19, 2014
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The past weekend’s Orpheum show — sold out for weeks beforehand, and drawing an impressive range of multi-generational hipsters — wasn’t the same old thing for The Pixies.

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Fuse News: Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the “End of Reason”

January 18, 2014
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There can be no doubt that Malevich was right, and that since February 1914 reason has played a distinctly subordinate role in human affairs, including art.

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Movie Commentary: Handicapping the Oscars

January 17, 2014
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The nominees for Best Picture are a deserving lot, except for “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which is a bloated mess of a movie that is an hour too long .

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