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Concert Review: Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry

April 16, 2017
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Sometimes new music isn’t really new and old music isn’t actually old; the best of it exists on some other plane entirely.

Fuse Film Review: The Montreal World Film Festival — The End is Nigh?

September 3, 2014
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It would be a great pity if the MWFF, with its luminous history, was put out to pasture.

Fuse CD Review: Underground Music Round-Up

July 2, 2014
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Here are a handful of underground/alternative music releases worth your consideration.

Film Review: A Deliciously Prepared “Chef”

May 16, 2014
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In Chef, the preparation of delicious food becomes a metaphor for a quest for meaningful life and love.

Theater Review: “I and You”—Sounding a “Barbaric Yawp”

October 16, 2015
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This gem of a play that is guaranteed to make you gasp at its surprising conclusion and leave the theater reveling in its lush language and the outstanding performances.

Coming Attractions in Film: April 2012

March 31, 2012
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It’s film festival time! That means you need to stretch, exercise, and drink plenty of liquids because there’s a lot to see. The month is capped with an amazing line up of 66 features at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.

Listening During Covid, Part 7: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music

October 31, 2021
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New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.

Book Review: “Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras” — Celebrating Blaxploitation Cinema

January 26, 2024
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“Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras” celebrates Blaxploitation as a positive as well as a necessary turning point in American cinema.

Album Review: Slauson Malone’s “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” — Struggling to Cope with the Past

December 18, 2020
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung only runs 24 minutes: it is a compact, thought-provoking, and rewarding sensory experience.

Fuse Theater Review: “Blinders” — Choppy Political Satire

June 23, 2016
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Patrick Gabridge’s political satire presents some intriguing sci-fi-like concepts, but the play falls into too many narrative potholes.

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