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Theater Review: A Scary, Slick Version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

October 27, 2013
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Stoneham Theatre’s atmospheric staging of Jeffrey Hatcher’s version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is a production well worth seeing — it lives up to its billing as “a new look at a horror classic.”

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Theater Review: “The Power of Duff”? The Same Old Guff

October 27, 2013
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Whenever you hear greeting card bromides intoned with a straight face (it’s usually in scenes set in a hospital) you know that moral fuzziness isn’t far behind.

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Book Review: Julian Assange Trades Hopes and Fears With Cyberpunks

October 25, 2013
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Any book in which the fourth sentence is “The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia” runs the risk of overstating its case from the get-go.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

October 25, 2013
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[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Short Fuse News: “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” — A PBS Series Not to be Missed

October 24, 2013
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In the first episode, Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes viewers back to Africa to talk, not as has been done before, with Africans whose forebears were lost to slavery but with descendants of Africans who grew rich on slave trade.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Five Highlights from the TransCultural Exchange’s 2013 Conference

October 24, 2013
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Residences are such a prominent feature of contemporary creative life that there’s an important gathering, the TransCultural Exchange’s Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts.

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Graphic Novel Review: No One Wins — Gene Luen Yang’s “Boxers & Saints”

October 23, 2013
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Although Gene Yang envisions a similarity between the Boxers (once transformed into their mythological hero aspects) and modern superheroes, BOXERS & SAINTS is far from a simple good vs. evil slugfest.

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Concert Review: Discovery Ensemble Plays Mozart, Ligeti, and Sibelius

October 22, 2013
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Discovery Ensemble is one of Boston’s great musical treasures, a group that consistently reminds us not only that the music they play is important, but why that’s the case to begin with.

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Book Review: “Lessons from Sarajevo” — Talking About What War Means

October 22, 2013
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In this powerful book, Jim Hicks explores a collection of narratives about the experience of war in many genres and a wide range of media that eschew the sentimental.

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Fuse News Dance Preview: Paul Matteson and Friends Come for a Visit

October 22, 2013
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An evening of risk that explores the edges of physical and emotional risk in dances scored to everything from Kurt Weill to a kitchen table conversation.

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