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Coming Attractions: October 9 through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 9, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Arts Commentary: The Declining State of the Art of Arts Journalism

February 13, 2024
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Theater critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts columnists have been stripped from our dailies and weeklies. Why should you care? Oscar Wilde warned that an age without criticism is “an age that possesses no art at all.”

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December Short Fuses – Materia Critica

December 5, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Music Review: Bob Dylan at UMass-Lowell, Tsongas Center

April 11, 2013
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The emotional peak of the entire night was Bob Dylan’s gently understated performance of “What Good Am I?” from 1989’s Oh Mercy.

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Arts Commentary: Essential Inquiries — “40 Questions About a Political Play”

July 1, 2025
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“A play is political if its subject is taboo and its story mirrors, exposes, and critiques the suppression and repression that interferes with the treatment of a cultural disease. A political play is a problem that is ignored, denied, maligned. A political play is, by definition, unpopular.”

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Coming Attractions: June 30 through July 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 30, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (January Entry)

January 10, 2022
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Arts Fuse writers finish their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s triumphant list includes John Lennon, Cat Stevens, Fela Kuti, Laura Nyro, Judee Sill, and Lou Harrison.

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Jazz Concert Reviews: 35th annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert

November 6, 2012
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The 35th anniversary concert proved that Coltrane’s music and memory continue to strongly hold sway in the hearts and souls of musicians and audiences alike.

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Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

November 28, 2017
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Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

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Concert Preview: Judy Collins Heats Up Some “Winter Stories”

November 27, 2019
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“People love a story, they always have, and always will, and stories are an essential ingredient in this folk music revival, which started sometime in the early ’50s.”

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