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Rock Album Review: Phish — Comfortably Optimistic at Home

April 6, 2020
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Sigma Oasis is one of Phish’s better albums since the group reunited in 2009 after a five-year breakup.

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Jazz Commentary: Three More Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — Stretching the Boundaries of the “Conventional”

October 5, 2023
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These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.

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Film Review: “Crawl” — Home Invasion of the Creepy-Crawlies

July 13, 2019
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This is a perfect guilty pleasure, an old fashioned B-movie without a franchise, explosions, overly recognizable actors, or exhausting mano a mano violence.

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Jazz Album Reviews: A Trio of Organ Trios Who Pull Out All the Stops

March 14, 2024
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Here’s a trio of organ trios from a new generation of players indebted, but not chained, to the classic jazz format and style that has been dominant since Jimmy Smith in the ’60s.

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Film Review: “Growing Cities” — Searching for America’s Urban Farmland

May 13, 2014
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Although “Growing Cities” plays a bit like a home movie, it at least scores points for enthusiasm.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 14, 2025
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This week’s poem: Jiwon Choi’s “Let Me Say I Am Fuchsia”

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Arts Feature: Celebrating The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home in the Berkshires

August 31, 2013
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The fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.

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Dubravka Ugresic Writes a Book That Dares to Bicker

October 29, 2008
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By Bill Marx Novelist and critic Dubravka Ugresic On this week’s World Books podcast I talk to novelist and cultural critic Dubravka Ugresic about her latest volume of trenchant essays and commentaries, “Nobody’s Home” (Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac). My conversation with Ugresic circles around her contention that, despite European enthusiasm for culture,…

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Film Series Review: “Scary Movies XII” — What Frightens Us Now?

August 14, 2025
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Grief and generational trauma have become the horror movie villains of our time, taking the spot once occupied by masked killers.

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Film Review: “Together” — (Two Can Be as Bad as One)

August 26, 2021
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A mismatched couple, trapped at home by government decree, try to maneuver and bicker their way through a COVID lockdown.

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