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Coming Attractions: November 19 through December 5 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 19, 2023
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Listening During Covid, Part 12: Adventures in Ethnic and National Diversity

June 5, 2022
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I am honestly puzzled by the casualness or, at times, ferocity with which some people nowadays reject classical music as inherently narrow or elitist.

Album Review: When Nobody/Everybody is Listening – The Basement Tapes

November 21, 2014
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It may seem a bit like overkill, and in many ways it is, but that all depends on your perspective.

Film Review: “Life of Pi” — A Spectacular 3-D Fable for Our Times

November 24, 2012
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Sophisticates may recoil at the deliberate symbolism and guileless self-assurance of “Life of Pi.” But this is a fable of storytelling, faith, spirituality, and coming of age whose sympathies are clear and strong, couched in visuals of such extraordinary artistry that the experience of watching it is intoxicating.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 21, 2024
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This week’s poem: Wanda Phipps’ “the michelson-morley experiment”

Jazz Album Reviews: Trombone Madness

July 31, 2023
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Taking both of these new releases together should satisfy the ‘bones jones of just about any jazz fan.

Winter 2024 Appeal

November 25, 2024

Dear Arts Fuse reader: For over 16 years, The Arts Fuse has brought you independent critical coverage of the arts with writing that is provocative, nuanced, and free for everyone. We cover the local and national stories that need to be told – 900 articles this year, ranging from bold reviews to thoughtful commentaries and interviews. In today’s…

Culture Vulture: Andre Previn and the Art of Literate Conversation

August 16, 2009
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by Helen Epstein Go here for information about a live-chat, scheduled for August 23rd, with Helen Epstein on “The Art of Narrative Writing.” They were around for most of my lifetime, I thought as I listened to Martin Bookspan, the 83-year-old radio announcer and music commentator and 80-year-old conductor, composer, and jazz artist Andre Previn.

Fuse Theater Review: PigPen’s Milk-Fed Magical Mountain Song

June 12, 2011
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Your reaction to PigPen Theatre Company’s “The Mountain Song” will depend on how much whimsical Americana you can stomach

Book Commentary: Fear of Translation

September 17, 2008
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by Bill Marx The newspaper “Haaretz” recently reported that the family of George Khoury, an Israeli Arab student killed in a 2004 terrorist attack in Jerusalem, responded to his death with a generous gesture – it has helped finance a translation into Arabic of Israeli writer Amos Oz’s powerful 2003 memoir  A Tale of Love…

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