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Film Review: “Lost in the Bewilderness” — Where Myth and Reality Meet

October 15, 2015
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Filmmaker Alexandra Anthony’s ambitious debut documentary was, in essence, fifty years in the making.

Book Review: “American Purgatory” — Prison as a Form of Social Control

September 30, 2023
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“American Purgatory” is the sort of book reactionary politicians and organizations are trying to ban. It’s full of evidence that many of the attitudes and conditions prevalent in this country from its founding were racist, bigoted, even genocidal.

Classical Album Review: Czech-Born Composer Erwin Schulhoff — “Shapeshifter”

November 3, 2022
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This is a strongly-played effort that makes a powerful case for the vitality and worth of Erwin Schulhoff’s oeuvre, particularly his mature chamber music.

Dance Review: “Have You Seen Me” – More Dance, Less Message

May 3, 2018
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An intriguing cross-disciplinary concept gave birth to a pallid, underrehearsed production.

Fuse Commentary: The Value of Browsing and Discovering That the “Shit Must Stop”

April 24, 2015
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Sometime you go in search of one thing, and you stumble upon something else. And maybe that newly discovered thing is something wonderful.

The Rat Who Reads

June 9, 2006
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Set in Boston, Sam Savage’s fascinating satiric novel chronicles the sad life of a literature-loving rodent.

Jazz Album Review: Playing the Music Eclectic

August 29, 2005
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For fans of jazz, world music, Americana — in short, for fans of all the genres guitarist Bill Frisell has explored over the past decade — “East/West” is a must. By James Marcus Will the real Bill Frisell please stand up? It’s a question his admirers have been asking with increasing frequency over the past…

Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

April 7, 2020
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At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.

Author Interview: The “Friday Night Lights of Hockey” — Jay Atkinson’s “Ice Time” Turns Twenty

June 16, 2022
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“Hockey gets in the blood—you develop an intense passion for the game, and either you leave it—too many early mornings, bus rides, urine-smelling rinks—or you just love it.”

Book Review: “You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent” — Believe It

April 22, 2023
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This is a well-researched and accessible account of how and how often the system locks up the wrong people and keeps them locked up.

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