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Visual Arts Review: Exotic Blooms and Curious Creatures — Rachel Ruysch at the MFA

September 14, 2025
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This exhibition takes viewers around the world through the specimens brought to Amsterdam by Dutch explorers. It invites close looking, and the museum has prepared a scavenger hunt handout with select bugs and flowers to seek out.

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Film Review: “The Devil All the Time” — Bad Things Happen, Over and Over Again

September 13, 2020
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This may be the year’s best ensemble cast, and that goes a long way towards making this multi-layered melodrama accessible and compelling.

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Arts Review: “Bad Blood” and “The Dropout” — Valley Girl Set Aflame in the Bonfires of the Vanities

March 19, 2022
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Playing on their strengths and working within the limitations of each medium, both The Dropout and Bad Blood pull us into the very American story of Theranos’ and Holmes’ rise and fall.

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Film Review: “Welcome to Me” — Me and TV, The American Dream

May 8, 2015
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It is Kristen Wiig’s committed performance, along with director Shira Piven’s skill at comic timing, that grounds the satiric comedy’s absurd premise.

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Book Review: Robert Glick’s “Two Californias” — An Affinity for Fragmentation

July 15, 2020
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Two Californias is full of humor, good writing, and thoughtful angles on human existence—with zombies thrown in for good measure.

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Television Review: “Brooklyn Inshallah” — A Marginalized Community Fighting for a Voice

December 20, 2021
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An in depth look at the injustices the Arab American community faces — even in Brooklyn, the most liberal of places.

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Coming Attractions: July 30 through August 14 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 30, 2023
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Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Coming Attractions: July 30 through August 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 30, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra and Violinist Nicola Benedetti — Dionysian Zest

January 20, 2023
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In the hands of some, Szymanowski’s Second Violin Concerto can be tame and traditional. As conducted by Karina Canellakis, and performed by the BSO and violinist Nicola Benedetti, the piece came off as bold, colorful, and urgent.

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Book Review: “Cold Nights of Childhood” — Impossible to Set Aside or Put Out of Mind

May 6, 2024
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What sets “Cold Nights of Childhood “wonderfully apart from today’s autofiction genre is the narrator’s absolute lack of self-pity. There is no blame-game, and no lugubrious victimhood.

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