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DVD Review: “Canoa: A Shameful Memory” — A Masterpiece of Mexican Political Cinema

March 28, 2017
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Canoa is a historical drama about the horror of history, made all the more frightening because it is based on a true story.

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Concert Preview: The Salt Collective — A Multipronged Octet

January 12, 2024
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A single listen to The Salt Collective’s album disabused me of my initial skepticism. The recording is as enjoyable and interesting as one would hope for from an effort featuring this gang of eight.

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Film Review: “In Fabric” — Weird, Witchy Fashion

January 2, 2020
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In Fabric is a mesh of black comedy, horror, and art house psychedelia. I found it wildly original.

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Television Review: “Hello Tomorrow!” — Moon Over Miasma

February 21, 2023
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You don’t see this often on commercial TV: a nihilistic expose of consumerism.

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Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive

September 30, 2022
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Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.

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Fuse Interview: Boston native Lydia Peelle wins 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award

October 28, 2010
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The Whiting Award winner’s short story collection is made up of tales filled with a gentle lyricism as well as a clear-eyed concern for characters stuck in “survival mode,” men and women, sheep farmers and taxidermists, who are scraping by, past their prime, or morally lost. By Bill Marx. Born in Boston and raised in…

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Book Reviews: Chronicles of Russia’s War on Ukraine — Hope Is the Thing with Teeth

May 15, 2023
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Two powerufl volumes show that Ukraine’s greatest weapons against Russia are hope and unity.

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Book Feature: The Decibel Diaries — A Journey Through Rock in 50 Concerts

April 8, 2017
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A journal that is part travelogue, part music history, and part meditation on the evolution of our culture through the often-bloodshot eyes of one man.

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Fuse Film Review: Worth Traveling North to See the “Manglehorn”

July 28, 2015
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Al Pacino, playing the title character, delivers his most impressive performance since he starred in Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny a quarter century ago.

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Arts Commentary: The Attack of the Mooninite

February 19, 2007
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Given the growing inclination, in the name of security, to regulate public expression, is it any wonder that protest art is scarce?

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