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Author Reconsideration: The A, B, and C of Sue Grafton

March 12, 2022
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The conveniently tidy endings do turn killing into an entertainment. They also allow us to briefly believe in redemption. And that is not the vainest of hopes.

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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.

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Cultural Commentary: Arts Criticism — An Embarrassment of Whiteness

July 24, 2019
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Can anyone — with a straight face — argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas?

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Fuse Coming Attractions: January 24 through February 2 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 24, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: November 29 to December 8—What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 29, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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The 18th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: The State of Our Union Could Be Better

January 2, 2024
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Major record labels were once notorious for trying to entice jazz musicians into selling out; they now find it more expedient to ignore them, leaving them to sell themselves.

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Opera Album Review: Saint-Saëns’s Opera about a Little Silver Bell Works Its Magic

March 7, 2021
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The world-premiere recording of a first rate production of a brilliant, fantastical opera, unstaged and unheard since 1914.

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Book Interview: Talking to BrownMark about “Life in the Purple Kingdom”

September 19, 2020
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Front and center in this memoir are BrownMark’s efforts to reconcile his resentment and gratitude toward the man who both sold him short and afforded him the “opportunity of a lifetime.”

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Television Commentary: Unreeling the Newsreels in “The Plot Against America”

May 28, 2020
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Was this alternate history lesson too much of a downer for viewers weighed down by the burdens of their own unexpected rendezvous with history?

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Jazz Remembrance: Jazz Trumpeter Extraordinaire Clark Terry

March 2, 2015
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Gradually, Clark Terry developed on the trumpet the rounded, full tone that became so distinctive.

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