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Fuse News: Grace Notes for Pianist Cedar Walton

August 21, 2013
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The late Cedar Walton was part of some of the most potent bands in the history of jazz, most famously Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

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Poetry Review: Imagine — Yoko Ono Plants an “Acorn”

August 21, 2013
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Yoko Ono has always been the kind of artist more interested in getting into your head than convincing you to occupy hers.

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Visual Arts Review: Winslow Homer at The Clark – The Painter and the Printmaker that Almost Was

August 21, 2013
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No one associates Winslow Homer with abstraction, but Sleigh Ride (1893) indicates that he at times ventured into the non-figurative borders of landscape painting Edgar Degas was exploring in France at the same time.

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Roots and World Music Preview: Late summer/early fall festivals and concerts

August 21, 2013
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The last of the summer festivals are finalizing their lineups just as many of the fall indoor festivals have announced theirs.

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Fuse News: Farewell, Elmore Leonard

August 20, 2013
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Writer Elmore Leonard, passed away on Tuesday, 8/20/13, 87 years old. Age no doubt chipped away at him physically but not so far as I could tell at his style and his prose.

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Film Review: “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” — Powerful But Ambitious to a Fault

August 20, 2013
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There are plenty of intensely moving moments in this expansive biopic, based very loosely on a real White House butler named Eugene Allen, who was profiled by Wil Haygood in a 2008 Washington Post feature.

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CD Review: Hip Hop Phenom Earl Sweatshirt Delivers a Divine “Doris”

August 20, 2013
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There was a great deal of obfuscatory hype about this LP, but the time to listen to the music has finally come. And Earl Sweatshirt has delivered what sounds like a hip hop classic.

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Theater Review: A Superb Staging of “This Is Our Youth” — A Perceptive Vision of American Muddle

August 20, 2013
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In this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.

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Fuse News: The Lenox Library’s Grand Book Sale — Bargains in the Berkshires

August 19, 2013
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The Lenox Library’s annual book sale – drawing on the discards of the area’s writers, teachers, performers, psychotherapists and culture-obsessed summer-residences — is considered one of the best on the East Coast.

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Visual Arts: HarborArts “OccupyING the Present” Brings Boston Harbor to Life

August 19, 2013
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The Boston Harbor Shipyard is a nifty setting for public art, redolent of old-school fisherman and maritime work. Its fading grandeur of weatherbeaten brick buildings, crumbling facades and stern signage sometimes rivaled the formal artwork.

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