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Film Review: “Beast” — Dark Forest of the Heart

May 24, 2018
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Writer-director Michael Pearce’s debut feature is self-assured and finely-wrought.

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Film Review: “Ramen Heads” — Delicious Obsession

April 6, 2018
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Food porn? You know it when you see it.

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Musician Interview: Talking to Folk-Rock Troubadour Steve Forbert

July 23, 2025
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It’s difficult to say if Steve Forbert sounds youthful now or if he has long since fully grown into his always expressive and distinctive voice. Or both.

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Jazz Appreciation: A Celebration of Charlie Parker on His 100th Birthday

August 29, 2020
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Arts Fuse jazz critics offer their favorite performances from the Bird.

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Visual Arts: “Walking Sculpture” at the deCordova — The Innovative Art of the Stroll

July 13, 2015
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Walking, the deCordova’s fascinating and wonderfully worked out exhibition suggests, is deeply subversive of the status quo.

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Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

March 14, 2015
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In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

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Opera Album Review: An Italian Comic Opera, or Is It a German One? You Decide

August 9, 2021
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s delightful 1906 comic opera, via the first recording of the version heard at the work’s premiere.

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Book Review: “The Great Gatsby” — The Greatest American Novel?

October 11, 2014
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There’s no debate: The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel, with Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn as also-rans.

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Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” — A Necessary and Welcome Gift

April 2, 2024
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Let’s hope that this book will provide an overdue and well deserved third act for the poetry of one of the twentieth century’s poetic masters.

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Commentary: Brandeis University Axes the Arts

August 30, 2023
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Gutting a venerable department – particularly a world-renowned one that, by all accounts, delivers – in the name of belt-tightening is shortsighted and foolish.

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