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Dance Commentary: Let’s Go iDancing

July 1, 2012
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This is the first of a series of occasional essays where Fuse Dance Critic Debra Cash will reflect on dances made for camera and new technologies. As they used to say, don’t touch that dial!

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Film Review: “The Tomi Ungerer Story” — Too Minor An Artist, Too Much Self-Adoration

July 12, 2013
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Does every semi-famous person deserve a full-length documentary about them?

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Book Review: “Parakeet” — A Wild Constellation

June 10, 2020
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Parakeet is a virtuosic, perplexing, challenging trip. If it’s too disturbing a tale for this particular moment (it shouldn’t be), it may be a great work to explore in a year to come.

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Film Commentary: The Heights and Depths, the Rise and Fall, of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”

August 27, 2023
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In the end, what strikes me most about “Vertigo” is its melancholy, its aura of grief, its mood of inevitable, irredeemable loss.

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Dance Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Comes to Boston — Sensorial Satiation

April 24, 2016
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The latest show from the superb Hubbard Street Dance Chicago had something for all of the senses.

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Book Review: “The Zone of Interest” — Not Quite Interesting Enough

October 30, 2014
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Martin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.

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Album Review: Joey Pizza Slice’s “Deli Days/Sontava Nights” — Depressive Lo-Fi Pop Done Right

May 22, 2014
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The tunes on Joey Pizza Slice’s new LP are personal enough to leave many listeners scratching their heads, asking “Is this guy for real?”

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Classical Music Commentary: Mozart Mania

March 27, 2006
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The composer turns 250 this year and everyone is trying to cash in on the worldwide party. By Mark Kroll You might not know if 2006 is the year of the dog or the dragon in the Chinese calendar, but you couldn’t have possibly missed the news that this year marks the 250th anniversary of…

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Visual Arts Essay: What is a Moment? — Two paintings of the wounded Eurydice by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

August 12, 2012
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Of course, I have no idea what was in Corot’s mind. But the juxtaposition of these images appears to me to present two different moments in time, perhaps adjacent ones, perhaps as close as possible, like adjacent frames of a film.

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Rock Review: Julia Jacklin’s “Pre Pleasure” — Posing Questions

November 22, 2022
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Intimacy, whether physical or emotional, is continually challenged in Julia Jacklin’s Pre Pleasure.

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