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Coming Attractions: June 8 Through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 8, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Appreciation: The Fiction of William Trevor — A Mixture of Compassion and Horror

January 25, 2017
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Reading William Trevor will enrich you in ways you cannot imagine.

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Film Review: “The Unknown Known” — As Insanely Entertaining as a Mad Hatter Tea Party.

April 11, 2014
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My first thought: filming Donald Rumsfeld can only be rationalized if it’s a front for a citizen’s arrest.

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Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

June 23, 2014
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Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

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Coming Attractions: May 11 Through 26 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 11, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Film Review: Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” — Reunion and Redemption

June 16, 2020
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Spike Lee examines a number of racist stereotypes that illuminate the times these men lived through, the bigoted conditions of their service and sacrifice, and their continued struggle for respect and parity.

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Jazz Appreciation: Moppa Elliott Does It All for You

March 25, 2024
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Moppa Elliott is an important jazz composer and a dynamic leader. When he brings a group to our area (which happens only rarely), do not miss the gig. When he issues a new recording, pay attention.

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Cultural Commentary: Arts Institutions, Unions, and the Pandemic

March 11, 2021
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It behooves audiences to be aware of how workers in the arts organizations they frequent are treated and whether management is operating in good faith.

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June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

June 7, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 18

February 18, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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