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Coming Attractions in Popular Music: November 2010

November 4, 2010
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Boston’s pop music scene in November has an international flair. Multiple groups from the UK who specialize in folk and electropop join bands from Spain and Ireland in coming to Boston this fall. While the picks for this month all have roots abroad, these acts make the Fall months of Boston that much more inviting.…

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Theater Review: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — A Genially Absurdist Comedy

June 5, 2024
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Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.

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Visual Arts Remembrance: Artist Ashley Bryan

February 21, 2022
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Ashley Bryan was a remarkable artist and legendary figure in Maine and New York who passed away at the beginning of February.

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Food Muse: Breaking Bread, Breaking the Ice

August 9, 2010
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If you want to know what’s for dinner in the Middle East or Africa, look no further than this marvelous book. Here a Persian dish of eggplant with saffron and yogurt, there a Ghanaian soup of chicken and ground nuts scooped up with a dumpling called fufu, there a Lebanese stuffed grape leaf from Arnold…

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Film Review: “Epicentro” — An Affectionate View of Cuba

January 20, 2021
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Politics is not the filmmaker’s interest in this lovely, affecting documentation of non-bureaucratic, everyday life in Havana.

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Book Review: “Educated” — An Exemplary Memoir

August 8, 2018
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Educated is a testament to the power of sensitive friends and mentors — and to Tara Westover’s own resilience.

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Music Appreciation: Exit Daft Punk

March 13, 2021
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Few bands have shown themselves to be as infectious about their art — and for so long.

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Music Feature: Shor’ty Billups — The Last Boston Soul Man

May 11, 2017
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A celebration of a man who is one of the only remaining Boston R&B and soul artists who recorded in the 1960s.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

May 23, 2024
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This week’s poem: Daniel E. Pritchard’s “Ailanthus”

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Book Review: “My Last Innocent Year” — Too Unreliable?

June 21, 2023
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An unreliable narrator is a tough row to hoe for a fiction writer, but a narrator who doesn’t quite know what to think — that’s even harder ground to plow.

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