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Film Review: “Joy” and “The Danish Girl” — Gratification Limited

December 26, 2015
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The unimportance of being too earnest.

Visual Arts Review: “Cat Mazza: Network” — Weaving Technology and Tradition in Political Art

February 10, 2025
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This show uses an impressively clever use of technology to create sign posts on a path through labor history, psychiatry, and textile design.

Theater Review: “Next to Normal” — More Relevant Than Ever

June 22, 2024
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This musical succeeds, at least in part, because it dares to shine a light on parts of our lives that we don’t like to talk about.

Book Review: “Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik” — The Evolution of a Radical Thinker

July 6, 2022
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A powerfully relevant study about an iconoclastic Black thinker and poet who was dedicated to economic reform as well as the eradication of racism.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 18, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.

Book Review: “Punch Me Up to the Gods” — Stories That Need to be Told

November 30, 2021
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A stunning indictment of homophobia, racism, and toxic masculinity, particularly among African Americans, Punch Me Up to the Gods holds a mirror up to America, a mirror before which many of us will not want to linger.

Film Review: Alice Guy-Blaché — One of the First, if not the First, Makers of Narrative Cinema

January 13, 2020
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A fuller accounting of the creative contributions of women to the film industry in its early decades is still fighting for a place in mainstream awareness. The documentary Be Natural is a valuable battering ram in that fight.

Dance Review: Festival of South African Dance — Sheer Exhilaration

October 26, 2017
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A festival of Gumboot and Pantsula at Rhode Island College featured a large cast of virtuosic dancers and engaging musicians.

Doc Talk: The Boston Palestine Film Festival — Visions of Loss and Recovery

October 18, 2024
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At The Boston Palestine Film Festival: a recognition of what remains and a restoration of what is lost.

Film Review: “Don’t Worry Darling” — Land of the Living Dolls

September 19, 2022
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As a satire on the power of male-dominated corporations to manufacture consent and conformity, Don’t Worry Darling is devilishly amusing. Though credibility is not its strong suit.

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