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Album Review: Omar Apollo’s “Ivory” — Making Good on His Promise

May 16, 2022
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Ivory is at its best when Omar Apollo fully commits to taking adventures into different sonic spaces.

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Fuse Commentary: Arts, Criticism, and the Search for a Serious Space

May 3, 2013
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Criticism is vital to our time because it is a form of witnessing, testimony to the possibility that the richness and joy of the arts can be articulated in ways that invite intellectual contentiousness in the midst of community.

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The Judicial Review — What Is It?

April 5, 2010
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There is now an eighth Judicial Review, with the panel deliberating on the Boston University College of Fine Arts production of the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical “Assassins,” which looks at the lives and sensibilities of men and women who attempted (successfully or otherwise) to kill the President of the United States. Below: background on…

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Book Review: “Mozart and His Operas” — Gift for a God

June 19, 2006
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A worthy present for Mozart on his 250th birthday: an original, sometimes eclectic, and mostly well-written book about the composer and his operas. “Mozart and His Operas” by David Cairns. (University of California Press) By Mark Kroll Mozart mania is back. In fact, it never left and don’t say I didn’t warn you. We are…

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Fuse Book Review: “The Christos Mosaic”—An Exciting Historical/Theological Thriller

December 11, 2015
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The Christos Mosaic is the rare adventure story that rewards the reader’s attention by being as diverting as it is rigorously encyclopedic.

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Fuse Music Interview: Cold Specks — The Queen of Doom Soul

October 27, 2014
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Neuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”

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Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Saint Joan” — Ferociously Relevant

January 20, 2015
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The virtuoso approach of Bedlam’s Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.

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Fuse Film Review: At the Boston Film Festival—A Delicious “Dough”

November 4, 2015
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Dough contains plenty of tasty charm and passion.

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Film Review: “Summer of Soul” — A Classic Concert Resurrected

July 4, 2021
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Summer of Soul is two hours of rapturous entertainment and pointed political commentary — neither of which has gone out of style 52 years later.

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Television Review: “Monster” — An Adaptation That Shouldn’t Have Happened

May 12, 2021
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It is sad Monster is such a botched effort, given that this is an important and timely story.

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