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Jazz Album Review: Bill Evans and Tony Bennett, 50 Years After

August 27, 2025
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Perhaps the most well-known jazz piano-vocal duo recordings were made in 1975 by Bill Evans and Tony Bennett. For me, these performances are sui generis — a high-water mark of the form.

Graphic Novel Review: “¡Ay, Mija!” — An Entertaining Mexican Adventure

April 2, 2023
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Christine Suggs’s graphic novel is comforting, but it also offers serious proof of why representation, and its embrace of diversity, is so important.

Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 4, 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.

Book Review: Bostonian Romance Novelist Emilie Loring — Once a Giant

April 19, 2023
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The biographer makes her case with evident joy, drawing on wide-ranging research to supply a lucid, sympathetic homage to Emilie Loring’s indefatigable determination and sunny-side up literary sensibility.

Book Review: A Mother Lode of Imagery and Information

October 2, 2021
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This eye-opening collection of photo-essays, essays, and interviews offers a kaleidoscopic view of a subject that is too often hidden, treated as a private concern rather than one of vital public interest.

Theater Review Roundup: Taking in London Stages

March 9, 2011
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Reviews of eight stage productions in London, with two terrific shows noted: American dramatist Bruce Norris’s powerful study of racial relations, Clybourne Park, and Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980 farce Season’s Greetings. Another winner on the West End, the critically acclaimed War Horse, comes to New York next week. By Joann Green Breuer Penelope by Enda Walsh…

Jazz Album Reviews: Sonica — A New Female Supergroup

November 27, 2022
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The triple-threat, multi-genre members of the newly formed vocal trio Sonica are creating inspiring and engaging music across multiple musical boundaries.

Book Review: “Horace: Poet on a Volcano” — A Writer Who Advised We Live Life to the Max

May 13, 2025
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Horace advocated that seizing the immediate with existential zest.

Music Preview: East Coast Premiere of an Opera about the Fight for Civil Rights –“Dark River”

March 26, 2014
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Fanny Lou Hamer’s life and the political struggle, which gave us the Voting Rights Act, is the basis of Mary Watkins’ two-act opera.

Book Review: Cher Speaks — Part One

November 25, 2024
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Now 78, Cher has written a compellingly candid chronicle of her early life and showbiz career, up until her move into the movies, which will be told in Part Two.

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