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Pop Music Review: The Puzzling Mademoiselle Adele: A Look at “21″

April 7, 2011
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The emotion Adele summons in “Someone Like You,” amplified further by her Brit Awards performance, should reassure faithful and discerning listeners that her reign as 2009 Best New Artist, floating regally above dispassionate Top 40 artists, isn’t over.

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Classical Music Album Review: Violinist Randall Goosby Plays Concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price

July 27, 2023
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Randall Goosby’s sophomore album proves that the violinist is the real deal.

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Movie Review: “Triangle of Sadness” — A Saw-Toothed Attack on Capitalist Excess

October 11, 2022
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Ruben Östlund is a richly talented filmmaker who puts the world of outrageous privilege in his cross hairs.

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Film Review: “The Dig” — The Depths of Discovery

February 13, 2021
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The Dig is suffused with a very English (and problematic) sense of history: why it matters, how it can be taken for granted, and the odd way that certain elements of the past are valorized while others are kept buried.

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Album Review: “Letters From a Black Widow” — Stunning Missives

May 6, 2024
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A powerful performer and artist emerges in this ambitious album about being publicly ostracized and maligned — and coming back stronger.

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Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Impeachment Trial Edition — Stir-Crazy 15

January 29, 2021
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As we wait for our vaccine shots, here’s some superior films that will make standing by more pleasurable.

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Theater Review: “Arms and the Man” — A Workmanlike Serving of a Shavian Confection

July 6, 2011
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There is nothing shocking, nothing sensational, nothing revelatory, in this workmanlike production of ARMS AND THE MAN. Nor should there be, as the play doesn’t give much room for innovation.

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Coming Attractions: Jazz Week Special Edition

April 23, 2010
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By J. R. Carroll Coming Attractions in Jazz for April 2010 unfortunately was washed away by the Waters of March (“It’s the mud, it’s the mud”), but we couldn’t let this year’s Jazz Week slip by without highlighting a few of the numerous events taking place in the Boston metro area from Friday, April 23,…

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Coming Attractions: December 18 through January 3 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 18, 2022
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: The Many Faces of Elaine May

February 7, 2025
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This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.

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