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Coming Attractions: October 12 Through 27 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 12, 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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Concert Review: Jonathan Cohen and Handel and Haydn Society Explore the Operatic Dimensions of Handel’s “Saul”

October 12, 2025
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“Saul “may be an oratorio, but it’s about as operatic as one can get.

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Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival’s 2025 “Revivals”

October 2, 2025
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Because NYFF’s “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

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Film Review: Dispatch From the New York Festival — “After the Hunt”

October 2, 2025
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“After the Hunt” churns up issues that feel several years behind the curve (hello 2007 and Harvey Weinstein).

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Contradictions of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4

October 7, 2025
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The Latvian conductor can sometimes overindulge in pieces that demand shifts in emotional direction on a dime, so the frenzied eclecticism of Mahler’s Fourth feels tailor-made for him.

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Musician Interview: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Honors the Anniversary of “Howl” at House of Blues

October 3, 2025
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“Howl” was one of the hardest things Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has ever made. We knew weren’t going to make another album like it unless the spirit really demanded the songs — it raised the bar rather high. 

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Book Commentary: Summer Reads for Adventurous Minds

June 24, 2010
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Poetry’s secret, it seems to me, consists of two ingredients: a love of this world and a curiosity about metaphysics. – Durs Grünbein, The Bars of Atlantis I resist the idea that books for the beach have to go down as easy as piña coladas. My eccentric and eclectic list of fiction and non-fiction in…

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Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

September 30, 2011
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It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

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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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WATCH CLOSELY: “Industry” — The Dramatic Stakes are Rising in the Third Season

September 9, 2024
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HBO’s “Industry” is an intense and highly intelligent series that just seems to keep getting better and better.

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