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Theater Review: Another Visit to “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real”

May 24, 2012
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Tennessee Williams’ stature amongst American playwrights may be more secure then it was when he died in 1983, but companies like Beau Jest, when they stage inspired productions of previously neglected works, are expanding our appreciation of what kind of a dramatist he was.

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Book Review: “The Lesser Bohemians” — The Desires of the Flesh, Revived

October 6, 2016
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In The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride seems to be determined to combat the soullessness of pornography.

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Film Review: “The Great Postal Heist” — Clear and Present Danger to a Great American Institution

January 31, 2022
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This effective advocacy documentary charts the 21st-century decline of a great American institution (one established in the U.S. Constitution). It’s also a wake-up call alerting us that things didn’t have to happen this way.

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Book Review: Of Childhood and State Terror

May 2, 2011
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Set in the beginning of the “Dirty War” of Jorge Rafael Videla’s military junta in Argentina, a period characterized by assassination and disappearance, “Kamchatka” is a superb novel that refracts public, political events through the sensibilities of everyday life. Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne. Black Kat, Grove/Atlantic, 311 pages…

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 27, 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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Film Review: 5 Women Filmmakers — A Sampling of the Superb

March 2, 2019
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This is a finely-selected sampling of what some accomplished women filmmakers offered in 2018.

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Musician Interview: Kula Shaker’s Crispian Mills Talks About Performing at Brighton Music Hall and Making “Wormslayer”

September 16, 2025
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“America hasn’t lost its historical and romantic legacy for British bands. At least that’s the case with us, anyway.”

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Visual Arts Review: “Matt Pawleski/Matrix 191” — Flirting With the Functional

February 26, 2023
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Instead of adoring function from an aesthetic distance, Matt Paweski confronts it where it lives. These sculptures play with the self-insistence that function has always had in modern design.

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Book Review: Neoliberal Soup for the Fledgling Capitalist Soul — “The Algebra of Wealth”

August 12, 2024
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Serious individuals of all stripes seeking candid yet pragmatic life, career, and financial guidance will find much to savor in this book.

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Film Review: “Film Is Dead. Long Live Film!” Explores a Fascinating Cinematic Subculture

May 9, 2024
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This powerful documentary is a paean to what was once thought to be the immortal impact of cinema and television, a thoughtful commentary on life’s richness — and its inevitable impermanence.

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