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Arts Commentary: From the Editor’s Desk — By Popular Demand, 2024

April 23, 2025
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Back in February of 2024 I began to write a weekly column for the newsletter on Substack. A few readers have asked that I post these opinion pieces in the magazine.  Here is a selection of my favorites.

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Coming Attractions: November 19 through December 5 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 19, 2023
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Our expert 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: August 22 through September 6– What Will Light Your Fire

August 22, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Film Review: The Art of Being Frozen — Two Powerful Films from Roy Andersson

June 26, 2015
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The overriding theme in Roy Andersson’s films is the conflict between human frailty and our delusions of control.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: July 24 through August 2 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 17, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Author Interview: Critic Morris Dickstein — “We Need a New Minority Culture”

March 29, 2021
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“Arts journalism should meet the same high standard as other forms of writing but rarely does, even in the good old days.”

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 7, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 7, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Jazz Commentary: Russell’s “Hustle,” The Duke of Ellington, and Me

August 9, 2020
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What exactly did the Duke’s music symbolize to Russell’s shifty characters, two upwardly mobile lowlifes more anxious to fleece the world than fall in love?

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Book Review: “My Last Innocent Year” — Too Unreliable?

June 21, 2023
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An unreliable narrator is a tough row to hoe for a fiction writer, but a narrator who doesn’t quite know what to think — that’s even harder ground to plow.

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