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Coming Attractions: January 2 through 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 2, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Classical CD Review: Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky from MusicAeterna

March 7, 2016
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and conductor Teodor Currentzis are two of the most interesting figures in classical music today.

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World Music Album Review: Michael Wimberly’s “Afrofuturism” — Journeying Forward Through Diversity

February 25, 2021
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We need more recordings like this. This is a diverse and imaginative album that draws on a wide range of influences: rap, old-school funk, Afropop, traditional West African music, and R&B jam sessions.

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Book Review: Brilliant “Shards”

November 1, 2011
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In this novel, author Ismet Prcic’s confusion is so vivid that it becomes ours, making us participants in the story.

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Book Review: “The Absinthe Forger” — Betrayal Among Worshippers of the Green Fairy

November 12, 2024
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There was, after all, something Faustian in the prospect of an elixir that promised to reveal glimpses of the divine while simultaneously burning pits of fire in the seeker’s brain.

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Film Review: “A Different Man”– Odd Man Out

September 30, 2024
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It is on the universal theme of identity that “A Different Man” resonates most eloquently, demonstrating how who we are is not fixed but chosen, a mask we don whether it fits or not.

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Theater Review: Moonbox Productions’ “Sweeney Todd” — An Ambition that Demands Attention

October 24, 2023
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Even before the lights come up on the remarkable new production by Moonbox Productions, it is clear that this is a “Sweeney Todd” of a different order.

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Fuse Film Preview: Graham Greene’s “Words in Motion” at the MFA

January 1, 2016
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In his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.

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Film Review: “The Souvenir” — Fear of Melodrama

June 7, 2019
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Joanna Hogg refuses by aesthetic principle to put a lot of inflection into her scenes, steering them away from melodrama and even heated drama. As a result, some episodes are half-baked, sketchy, and flat.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — June 18

June 18, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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