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Jazz Album Reviews: Sonica — A New Female Supergroup

November 27, 2022
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The triple-threat, multi-genre members of the newly formed vocal trio Sonica are creating inspiring and engaging music across multiple musical boundaries.

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Film Review: “Our Kind of Traitor” — Spies Left Out in the Cold

July 12, 2016
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Our Kind of Traitor provides plenty of agreeably tense entertainment.

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Visual Arts Review: Play It Loud — Admiring the Tools that Made the Tunes

May 20, 2019
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Play It Loud is porn for musicians and fans who fetishize the tools of the trade.

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Film Review: A Powerful “Philomena”

January 3, 2014
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Evaluating actress Judi Dench is akin to watching a great athlete do a high dive or land a difficult jump on ice skates. She nails it so often that you half expect a row of judges to hold up cards with nothing but 10’s on them.

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Coming Attractions: April 10 Through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 10, 2023
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: “The Lesser Bohemians” — The Desires of the Flesh, Revived

October 6, 2016
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In The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride seems to be determined to combat the soullessness of pornography.

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Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020

December 20, 2020
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An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

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Book Review: Writer Thomas Mann — Still August After All These Years?

March 27, 2023
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How does Thomas Mann’s grandiosity hold up today? A new selection of his short stories, freshly translated by veteran translator and fiction writer Damion Searls suggests an answer, though only partially.

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Concert Review: Phish’s Trey Anastasio — Playing the Role of Troubadour

March 12, 2025
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The sheepishly affable Trey Anastasio wisely focused on music, allowing him to play a broader representation of his repertoire across two hours and 25 minutes.

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Listening During Covid, Part 9: Intriguing New Works and New-Sounding C. P. E. Bach

March 17, 2022
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A varied buffet of fresh musical experiences from recent decades and from the mid-1700s.

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