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Visual Arts Commentary: Hugh Ferriss — Architectural Delineator of the Heroic Modern

May 19, 2018
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A visionary ‘Paper Architect’ who influenced popular culture as well as a generation of architects.

Theater Review: “Rain Dogs” — A Humdinger of a Tribute to the Music of Tom Waits

May 17, 2014
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Having glittery, Bettie Page-y young women clad in leather and thongs undulate to music by Tom Waits is pretty much guaranteed to work.

Visual Arts Commentary: Magritte’s Impact on Book Cover Design

February 1, 2007
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This is an intelligent exhibit, not just conceptually but in that it requires the viewer to actively make connections while absorbing the art.

Book Review” “Trip” — Tour Through an Undiscovered Country

September 2, 2025
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A giddily inventive, surreally hilarious, and sometimes profound debut novel.

Rock Album Review: Superorganism’s “World Wide Pop” — The Power of Collective Eccentricity

September 1, 2022
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In World Wide Pop, the London pop collective looks for peace in the digital cosmos, despite intimations of coming oblivion.

Pop Album Review: A.G. Cook’s “Apple” — Half-Baked

October 6, 2020
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A.G. Cook’s undeniable talent shines through in spots, but the record suggests that the celebrated producer has a ways to go before stepping into his own as a solo artist.

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 21

March 21, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Theater Review: A Dated “Company”

August 16, 2017
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Director Julianne Boyd is faced with a difficult challenge — dramatizing an outdated psychological travelogue.

Theater Review: “appropriate” — Southern Gothic, Entertainingly Deconstructed

September 19, 2015
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In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.

World Books @ PEN World Voices Festival – A Critical Thought or Two

May 7, 2009
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Widening literary perspectives is admirable, but as the festival matures somebody at PEN has to decide what World Voices is supposed to be. By Bill Marx My admittedly small sampling of the 5th Anniversary of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in New York last week left me feeling baffled. I attended seven…

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