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Film Review: Two at the Boston Turkish Film Festival — “Kerr” and “The Burning Days”

March 22, 2023
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In Turkey, liberal filmmakers must find ways to address system wide abuses without offending the censors: the opening and closing films at this week’s Turkish Film Festival make good use of that strategy.

Book Review: “The Regrets” — Love Affair With the Semi-Dead

September 20, 2021
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Is Amy Bonnaffons saying that heterosexual love is doomed? Probably not. But she gives no indication it can work in the world she creates here.

Concert Review: A Gripping Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall

March 25, 2014
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For at least the last decade, the LAPO has set the bar in creative programming, commissioning new works, and integrating itself into its community.

Fuse CD Review: “Day of the Dead” — Not Just for Dead Heads

May 19, 2016
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Day of the Dead upends stereotypes and expectations, providing a compelling, exploratory trip through the Grateful Dead songbook.

Film Review: “I’ll See You in My Dreams” — Highly Pleasurable

May 22, 2015
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Happily, Blythe Danner is the central figure in an immensely pleasurable indie film that blends the integrity of an art film with the cozy accessibility of the mainstream.

Rock Review: Two Neo-Psychedelic Oddities — Outlandish Sonic Journeys Worth Taking

May 28, 2014
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These challenging LPs offer opposing, but equally thrilling, aural/cinematic adventures: one is an overblown grindhouse flick, the other a wondrous fantasy feature.

Music Interview: Opera on Tap and with Tongue-in-Cheek

September 25, 2010
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Snobby and sober no more! Made up of singers who perform arias and duets in bars, Opera on Tap currently presents its innovative songfests in Chicago, New York, New Orleans, and Ann Arbor. Now the concept comes to Boston, with performances tomorrow and Monday night (September 26 and 27) at Oberon in Cambridge. Anne Ricci,…

Film Interview: Director James D. Cooper on “Lambert & Stamp” — Creating The Who

May 2, 2015
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Lambert & Stamp will resonate with musicians who have experienced the volatile give-and-take that is needed to sustain and nurture a rock and roll band.

Jazz Commentary: Response to “The Jazz Bubble”

August 28, 2018
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Arts Fuse Jazz critic Steve Provizer responds to Dale Chapman’s book The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in a Neoliberal Culture.

Fuse Theater Interview: Israeli Playwright Motti Lerner on Catharsis, Tikkun, “Hard Love,” and Protesting a Play Without Reading the Script

February 19, 2014
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“The working relationship is based on the mutual feeling that all three of us have the same understanding of the purpose of the theatre – to present plays that create a cathartic experience for the spectator, which might open his eyes and his heart to a new consciousness.”

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