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Recommending The Spine of the Night depends on how much you’d like to see things like head decapitations, eye-gouging, and people being disemboweled in your high-fantasy animated features, in which case Spine is everything you could hope for and a whole lot more.
Read MoreHonesty is Best Policy Disclosure: I was in the hall to hear Mostly Other People Do the Killing. I’d heard the band on CD, and I knew that the only way I could appreciate them fully was to attend a performance.
Read MoreWhen the musical whirlwind came to an end the crowd responded with a standing ovation, an enthusiastic testament to the power of this sweat-soaked night of edgy jazz guitar.
Read MoreTwo of the best feature documentaries this year at the Provincetown Film Festival were gay-themed.
Read MoreOctober brings in epics from the classics (Shakespeare and Dickens), ghost stories from the classics (Poe, Henry James), a tragicomedy from a classic (O’Neill), and a comedy from a classic (Ben Jonson). Annie Baker, Ethan Coen, and the Rude Mechanicals provide some welcome respite from the tried-and-true. Given the state of the economy and the…
Read MoreThese are men who appreciated women for their bodies, athleticism, motherhood, intelligence, and humor – all reasons to celebrate this show.
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Tar is about a major artist with an outsize ego who ignores at her peril the seismic shifts in the culture.
Read MoreReading William Trevor will enrich you in ways you cannot imagine.
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Perhaps the most well-known jazz piano-vocal duo recordings were made in 1975 by Bill Evans and Tony Bennett. For me, these performances are sui generis — a high-water mark of the form.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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