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Theater Review: An Exuberant and Dark “Absurd Person Singular”

August 23, 2013
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Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism — belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.

Short Fuse Film Review: “The Attack” — A Compelling Look at the Conflict Between Israelis and Palestinians

August 22, 2013
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The Attack is a movie that tries to get to the core of violence without dissolving into its depiction.

Fuse CD Review: The Not-So-Sad Pop Rock of Porches

August 22, 2013
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Weirdly paradoxical as the description may be, “bummer pop” is the best way to characterize the breezy half hour’s worth of music in Porches’ new album.

Fuse News CD Review: Pianist Chick Corea’s Extroverted “Vigil”

August 22, 2013
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According to Chick Corea, this recording contains first impressions of the compositions that he’ll be playing with his band on upcoming tours. It’ll be interesting to hear how these tunes and this group develops.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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