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Television Review: Netflix’s Teen Comedy “Never Have I Ever” — Quirky to a Fault

April 30, 2020
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Never Have I Ever suffers from an identity crisis: the show doesn’t want to face that it is just another Netflix teen comedy, albeit with its share of engaging moments.

Film Review: “Big Fan” Shoots a Freak in a Barrel

September 27, 2009
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Robert Siegel has an undeniable talent for capturing the desperation and despair of his downtrodden character, but the director never tells us why he is plumbing the lower depths of America’s mania for sports. Big Fan, directed by Robert Siegel, showing at Kendall Square Cinema. Reviewed by Justin Marble Like Robert Siegel’s first script, “The…

Book Review: “Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem” — A Dazzling Study of the Oldest Long Poem in the World

October 16, 2019
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This is a wonderfully readable book, sure-footed in its scholarship but hip and occasionally hilarious in its tone.

Concert Review: Odyssey Opera’s “The Chronicle of Nine”

February 4, 2020
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Arnold Rosner’s writing in each act is strongly contrapuntal, metrically unpredictable, and idiomatically scored. The music is marked by constantly shifting colors, a strong sense of rhythm, and a healthy dose of lyricism.

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 31

January 31, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Jazz Album Review: “That’s What Happened, 1982-1985” — Miles Davis Makes up for Lost Time

October 4, 2022
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This three-disc set provides a fascinating look behind the curtain at one of the great bandleaders in jazz history putting together his groups, seeing what they can do from multiple angles, and building a new musical concept from scratch.

Visual Arts Interview: Lisa Kessler’s “Heart in the Wound” — Reassessing Sexual Abuse, Power, and the Catholic Church

March 9, 2022
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“The abuse in the church has very unique and cruel twists to it. And, as one of the oldest continuous patriarchal institutions in the world, looking at the church helps us to reflect upon how many established institutions, including families, help perpetuate and conceal violence throughout society.”

Concert Review: Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” at the Boston Conservatory

April 13, 2017
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The Boston Conservatory production of Mass was mostly frustrating, but Leonard Bernstein’s score came across very strongly.

Theater Review: Boston Theater Company’s “Romeo & Juliet” — A Romance Rife With Political Scandal

October 29, 2013
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BTC’s experiment, while not without its faults, proffers an admirable model of the sort of creative thinking that more companies should emulate when placing Shakespearean drama in a contemporary American context.

Theater Review: “Evening at the Talk House” — Amusing Ourselves to Dystopia

June 1, 2018
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Evening at the Talk House is a savage indictment of our country’s acceptance of the immense, horrific violence necessary to maintain our consumer comforts.

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