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Book Review: “Kick the Latch” — Off to the Races

November 1, 2022
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Kick the Latch (the title refers to what is done to open the starting gate in a horse race), through its plain and spare authenticity, is a powerful and impressive success.

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Book Review: Diane Williams, Flash Fiction, and the Shrinking Short Story

November 27, 2018
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Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.

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Film Review: “Le Pont du Nord” — An Entertaining Exercise in Playful Dis-Ease

August 8, 2013
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This entertaining and provocative work, made in 1981 by the now 85-year-old director, fits into his oeuvre as a complement to his best known movie among American art-film fans, 1974’s Céline and Julie Go Boating.

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Opera Album Review: An Italian Comic Opera, or Is It a German One? You Decide

August 9, 2021
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s delightful 1906 comic opera, via the first recording of the version heard at the work’s premiere.

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Theater Review: The Importance of Being Seriously Insignificant

February 12, 2019
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What makes Portland Stage’s production of Earnest such a delight is its physicality.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 1, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Video Game Review: Spyro the Purple Dragon — Delightfully Reignited

November 24, 2018
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For once, an exceptional reboot of a classic game.

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Visual Arts Review: Ukrainian Art Today — Crystallizing the Immediacy of War

November 12, 2022
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These are individual expressions of how it feels to live in a war zone, not scenes of valiant fighters intended to recruit more combatants.

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Opera Album Review: Before “Carmen,” There Was Massenet’s Spanish-Tinged “Don César de Bazan”

January 24, 2021
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World premiere recording of an utterly delicious 1872 comic opera, recorded without spoken dialogue, so you can just revel in the music and the singing.

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Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part Two — “When the Impossible Really Begins”

April 9, 2020
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Theater is seen as a cleansing illness that sets out to obliterate the illness we blithely accept as health.

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