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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 13

September 13, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Jazz Concert Review: Tight Like That — Steven Bernstein and Sexmob

June 21, 2025
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The whole band demonstrated an expressive variety of mark-making, as visual artists like to say: lines and squiggles and blotches, graceful or rude.

Music Preview: The Mother of All Reunions — 50 years of Boston Rock, Courtesy of WMBR’s “Pipeline!”

August 14, 2014
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Beginning next month, local venues will be positively overrun with reunion shows representing five decades of Boston bands — without doubt the largest reunion event in the history of the Boston scene.

Watch Closely: “Painkiller” is a Saga of Cruel Greed

August 14, 2023
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This limited series is not easy to watch, but “Painkillers” should be considered indispensable viewing because of the light it shines on the amoral face of corporate greed.

Arts Feature: Music 4,000 Years In The Making — The Master Musicians Of Jajouka, Featuring Bachir Attar

November 25, 2022
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The music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka is a gift to all who want to seek the divine through song, as I discovered myself in a Moroccan taxi many years ago.

October Fuse Pick: Boston Book Festival

October 19, 2009
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by Bill Marx The Boston Book Festival, which kicks off its existence this Saturday, is an inevitability that for some puzzling reason wasn’t a reality. Boston is a determinedly readerish town, yet it is the only one of America’s major cities that doesn’t have a book festival. Thankfully, BBF organizer Deborah Z. Porter remedies the…

Book Review: Nicole Krauss’ “To Be a Man” — A Virtuoso Performance

December 1, 2020
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Nicole Krauss’ new book of short stories generates a curious, understated, but genuinely transporting spirit, pretty much throughout.

New York Film Festival 2023: “Maestro,” Chinese Youth, and a Turkish Teacher

October 15, 2023
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As always, the New York Film Festival was a mix of art films that may never see general release with a few star-laden commercial movies angling for awards.

Theater Review: A Faint Touch of Evil

August 11, 2010
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Shakespeare’s tragic characters, on the other hand, suffer from the Christian sin of pride: knowing you aren’t God, but trying to become Him—a sin of which any of us is capable. — W. H. Auden on Othello in Lectures on Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare. Directed by Steven Maler. Staged by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company…

Book Review: “Debriefing the President” — Ignorance is Tragedy

July 8, 2017
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So now you know: Saddam’s fearsome weapon of mass destruction was a novel.

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