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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Cohen devotes little space to Bernard Berenson’s art historical methodology, now largely superseded by modern approaches.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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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 17, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater coming up this week.

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Film Review: “The Invisible Woman” — The Elusive Story of Boz’s Babe

January 17, 2014
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We do feel Charles Dickens’s heart tenderly beating, swept away by Nelly Ternan’s poised beauty, and it’s touching in an almost Chekhovian way, his being smitten by a love which can only bring sorrow.

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Fuse Book Review: “Country of Ash” — Another Essential Holocaust Memoir

January 16, 2014
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We become increasingly aware that we are in the mind of a doctor who has taught himself to observe carefully, who has an amazingly strong will to survive, and who chooses not to waste precious time and energy on anger or revenge.

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Theater Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company’s Vibrant “Color Purple”

January 16, 2014
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The singing in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production is strong throughout; it’s easy to get caught up in the sheer pleasure of such a variety of voices.

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Jazz CD Review / Appreciation: Jane Ira Bloom’s “Sixteen Sunsets” – Jazz Mastery, Undiluted

January 14, 2014
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In nearly 78 minutes of intensely concentrated playing, Jane Ira Bloom’s album offers some of the greatest ballad performances I have ever heard.

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