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Book Review: “Humankind” — The Power of Positive Thinking

September 9, 2020
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Humankind, at the very least, compels us to rethink fashionably pessimistic assumptions about human nature.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: February 14 through 23— What Will Light Your Fire This Week

February 14, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Coming Attractions: February 12 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 11, 2023
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, 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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Opera Preview: Expanding “Butterfly”‘s Habitat — A Chat with Phil Chan

September 6, 2023
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We’re not saying get rid of “Madama Butterfly” We’re saying do a better Butterfly.

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Fuse Feature: The Zeitgeist in Film — 2015

January 5, 2016
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Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.

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Coming Attractions: April 8 through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 6, 2018
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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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Music Review: Favorite and Least Favorite Shows of 2013

January 1, 2014
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Fuse Music Critic Noah Schaffer’s favorite live music moments from the past year.

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Pop Music Review: Ginger Root’s “Nisemono” and the Virtues of Creative Recycling

November 23, 2022
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The music of Cameron Lew, in the persona of Ginger Root, makes us confront a fundamental truth: the familiar, after the passage of time, becomes the exotic

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Book Review: “Jazz With a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940-1960” — Told With an Edge

February 27, 2024
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Shouting and honking saxes made visceral appeals to the emotions and the body. For jazz critics, this kind of theatricality degraded what should have been ‘Art.’

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Jazz Album Review: Terry Gibbs’ Slam-Bang Big Band, Vol. 7

October 20, 2024
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This 65-year-old recording features some of the best players in L.A. and it is bright, sharp, and revealing. There’s plenty to marvel at here even if I would have wished for more ballads and fewer Stan Kenton-like brass fanfares. 

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