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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…

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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.

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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

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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.

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Book Review: “Rapture” — Modernism, Daredevil Style

May 21, 2017
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Rapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.

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Film Review: “Archie’s Betty” — A Charming Documentary about Comic Book Americana

June 11, 2015
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Here is a terrific documentary that will appeal to people who grew up in the mid-20th century and also their children and grandchildren.

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Film Review: “Transit” — Europe’s Unburied Past

March 15, 2019
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In Transit, Christian Petzold explores why the ghosts of Europe’s troubled past are stirring once more.

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Book Review: “Les Diaboliques” — An Essential Hidden Dimension in French Literature

January 31, 2016
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In “Les Diaboliques” readers must expect quite a lot of crime and some misogyny as well.

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Coming Attractions: September 10 through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 10, 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.

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Movie Review: Bobby Fischer Against the World

May 4, 2011
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The Bobby Fischer that the documentary portrays is both a creature of the Cold War era, shouldering that burden, and a peculiarly American hero. It airs this Monday, June 6, on HBO Bobby Fischer Against the World. Directed by Liz Garbus. By Harvey Blume ( Also in The Arts Fuse: Harvey Blume’s thoughts on Fischer’s…

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