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Theater Review: “A Raisin in the Sun” — A Great Evening of Theater

July 9, 2019
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To see Raisin in the Sun in post-Obama America is to experience how a classic both remains emblematic of its time and changes resonance as time passes.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — August 14

August 14, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Short Fuse Review/Commentary: Steve Jobs and the Digital Acid Trip

December 19, 2011
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No doubt too much can be made out of Steve Jobs’s tripped-out youth, but also, too little. Jobs himself said: “Definitely, taking LSD is one of the most important things in my life.” He never recanted when it came to psychedelics, or disowned their influence.

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Film Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” — Charlie Kaufman’s Hall of Existential Mirrors Glimmers Darkly

August 27, 2020
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a bit of a wonder, a careful nightmare that demands rapt attention even if repeated viewings do little to assuage its eeriness.

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Doc Talk: Five New Nonfiction Films Worth a Look

November 4, 2022
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From Mobile to Mars, from the mind of Robin Williams to the rise and fall of a Pez entrepreneur, and with a side trip to Newton South High.

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Author Interview: Welcome to the “Mad World” of New Wave Music of the 1980s

June 22, 2014
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“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”

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Film Review: 1967’s “Accident” — Romance Among Frigid, Upper-Class Brits

October 1, 2014
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Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.

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Jazz CD Review: “Maid With the Flaxen Hair” — Mandatory Listening

August 22, 2018
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Every guitarist should listen carefully to this album. And then maybe some Johnny Smith.

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Music Review: The Folk Rock Boys

August 2, 2005
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Frank Black of the Pixies and bad boy Ryan Adams have put out new albums that, at their mellow best, skillfully substitute pedal steel for screams. By Danielle Dreilinger The 2005 Newport Folk Festival made an unusual decision when it came time to pick their Saturday headliner: seminal indie-rock band the Pixies, famous for the…

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Book Review: Sarah Ruhl’s “Smile: The Story of a Face”

October 16, 2021
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This is the voice of a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, patient, and author who wrote a memoir on her own terms. I can’t wait for Sarah Ruhl’s next play.

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