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Arts Commentary: My Blackface Confession

February 13, 2019
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Did I try to fit in at my segregated school, betraying my father and his values to be a popular white boy?

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Jazz Gift Recommendations: The Test of Time, 2016

December 18, 2016
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I think any one of these releases would be received gratefully by a person who listens with both ears.

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Film Review: “Amsterdam” — Fast Friends, Broken Bodies, Strong Spirits

October 4, 2022
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As its plot unfolds, Amsterdam treats us to a strangely magical form of visual and verbal storytelling, both humorous and hard-edged, by turns sweet and shocking, with richly curated frames and bright spirited dialogue.

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Dance Feature: Edward Villella Takes to the Ice

October 17, 2013
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Reveries, the ice ballet that audiences will get to see in a special benefit performance this weekend, is Edward Villella’s translation of balletic structures and forms into contemporary figure skating technique.

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Theater Review: “A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline” — An Enjoyable Homage to a Legend of Country Music

September 4, 2014
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A Short Walk with Patsy Cline leaves you wanting more. It will send you — back or for the first time — to Cline’s own recordings.

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Donations – Please Help Keep the Arts Fuse Lit

February 12, 2010

The Arts Fuse serves as the next generation platform for thousands of arts and culture consumers across Greater Boston and across the globe. The magazine now draws more than 100,000 readers a month. We have pioneered a new business model for arts journalism, and we need your support. Alarmed by declining arts coverage in newspapers,…

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Fuse Commentary: All Cultural Things Shining at the Oscars

April 8, 2012
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The core claim of the book is that the contemporary culture is nihilistic in outlook, but unnecessarily so. The authors believe there to be a remedy to our debilitating amnesia —- to integrate our lives, in some ways, into the world as perceived by our cultural forefathers.

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Film Commentary: Provincetown Film Festival — A Very Good Year

June 28, 2021
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John Waters and I were in sync with our favorite in this year’s festival.

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Book Review: “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”

February 26, 2012
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The people of Annawadi live in conditions so bleak that “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” evoked, for one Indian reviewer, Primo Levi’s depiction of life in concentration camps.

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Book Review: An Outstanding “List”

November 30, 2011
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Although he has set himself an ambitious task with all that is happening in “The List,” Martin Fletcher has complete command of this material and has created a complex novel that is also a good thriller.

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