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Book Review: It’s a Cat’s Life — “Penny”

April 27, 2021
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Penny, whose many moods are sensitively drawn in this softly colored volume, is, perhaps like all cats, a philosopher.

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Post-Rock CD Review: Caspian’s “On Circles” — Short Films for the Inner Eye

January 26, 2020
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With this album, post-rock sextet Caspian pulls off the tricky maneuver of infusing blood and emotions into carefully assembled and deliberately delivered songs.

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Short Fuse: Diana Thater — Chess and Chelsea

January 17, 2008
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by Harvey Blume Marcel Duchamp famously tweaked art for being inferior to chess, saying: “From my close contact with artists and chess players I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” Duchamp backed this opinion up by abandoning art for years to pursue…

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Theater Interview: Hip-Hopper Baba Israel on “I Spy an Adventure!”

July 1, 2025
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“When you collaborate with an audience and other artists, and you let hip hop flow and intertwine, anything goes.”

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Mozart and Shostakovich

February 2, 2018
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Despite Shostakovich’s often-dissonant approach, the Fourteenth has always been highly-regarded if infrequently-played.

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Film Review: “Black Mass” — Oh, What Could Have Been

September 22, 2015
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Rarely is an actor so completely miscast in such a pivotal role.

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Fuse News: A Quick Guide to The Outside the Box Festival

July 12, 2013
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Participants of Ted Cutler’s Outside the Box Festival recognize there could have been more publicity about the event.

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Culture Review: At MIT, an exhilarating example of 21st-century, multi-media collaboration

January 24, 2011
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It would have been easy to make an entire season out of the ideas the Boston Chamber Music Society compressed into one afternoon; as it is, the wealth of material had the audience buzzing during the two intermissions. Some found the multi-media presentation too much of a good thing. I found it exhilarating and challenging…

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Book Review: “Murder in the Dressing Room” — Enter: A Drag Queen Shamus

January 15, 2025
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The book marks a marvelous entrance by an important new heroine onto the mystery stage: a drag queen, who goes in and out of her drag character as she investigates the murder of a friend.

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Fuse Film Review: “London Has Fallen” — Jingoism “R” Us

March 8, 2016
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This might be seen as the first film inspired by potential presidency of Donald Trump.

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