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Film Review: “Félix and Meira” — Intelligent But Uptight

June 2, 2015
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In his Boston Globe review, Ty Burr complained Félix and Meira was needlessly slow in the telling. I felt that the movie is needlessly discreet.

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Fuse Remembrance: Conceptual Artist Chris Burden — Political But Playful

May 12, 2015
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Chris Burden’s distinctive contribution to the art of our time was that he brought politically informed performance art and idea-based sculpture into the mainstream.

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Jazz Review: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & whatsnext at Scullers — An Intoxicating Mix

October 4, 2014
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There were times during the performance when Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and the band seemed to fully enter the Ottoman empire.

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Album Review: B L A C K I E — Conflating the Barbaric and the Beautiful

August 26, 2014
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Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World finds B L A C K I E reaching an ambitious artistic high, delivering potent pieces of jazzy discord that impressively conflate the barbaric and the beautiful.

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Theater Review: “Necessary Monsters” — A Confusing Walk on the Wild Side

December 12, 2014
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Attempting to dig underneath our protective psychic skins to get at the festering Ids within, John Kuntz would like Necessary Monsters to mesh laughter and fright, comedy and horror.

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Film Review: Jason Bateman’s “Bad Words” — The Spelling Bee, Comically Deconstructed

March 22, 2014
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Although rather shallow in its characterizations, “Bad Words” makes up for this deficiency in its rollicking, R-rated demolition of a familiar character-building institution: the spelling bee.

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Jazz Concert Review: Nels Cline 4 — Mindbenders

July 5, 2018
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Nels Cline 4 is a group that can cross musical and cultural boundaries with exhilarating ease.

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Classical CD Review: Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach and Glass and James Brawn’s Beethoven Odyssey vol. 5

May 18, 2018
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Two recommended discs: James Brawn’s complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fervency and warmth.

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Appreciation: Slamming the Tradition — massmouth Mounts Its First Folk and Fairy Tale Slam

October 21, 2012
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The late John Updike, Harvard Professor Maria Tartar recalled, described fairy tales as “the television and pornography of an earlier era.”

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Fuse Remembrance: A Tribute to Roger Ebert

April 4, 2013
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In the end, it is not the brilliance of his criticism or the strength of his prose for which we will remember Roger Ebert, but his humanity and his love—for film, for life, and, most of all, for people.

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