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The Food Muse: Clink. And Clink again.

November 1, 2009
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The tall multi-paned windows at Clink. look on to fall colors or the night, the river outside. The style is inviting, informal, and the food is elegant, the taste as good as it gets. Let’s clink to that. By Sally Steinberg Where in America is there a Filipino chef using Spanish arrope (candied pumpkin, for…

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The Food Muse: The Massachusetts State Sandwich?

October 4, 2009
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The Massachusetts State Sandwich? Fluffernutter as Icon? By Sally Steinberg No serious eater, no gourmet, no culture vulture, no thinking person, no person of discriminating taste, no one interested in nutrition could…… But wait! The Fluffernutter might just be one of the secret food grails, its own Umami, all by itself, an elusive, indescribable, uncategorizable,…

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Short Fuse: Xiangqi Fever

June 15, 2009
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By Harvey Blume To play Xiangqi (Chinese chess) as earnestly as I have been lately is to revisit a familiar situation, one in which I am at the gateway of another culture, hungry for the experience, but positioned as a junior. That was the case with African drumming and with neurological difference, for example, especially…

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Film Commentary: What If a Man Insinuates That a Woman Is NOT Attractive? And in Print?

January 31, 2021
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Variety is wrong and cowardly to give in to Cary Mulligan’s misguided, damaging accusations.

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Film Review: “The Taste of Things” – Gallic Feasts for the Eyes

February 15, 2024
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A 100-year-old novel provides the basis for some sumptuous moviegoing.

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Fuse Book Review: A Post-Modern History Lesson

June 17, 2011
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At the very least, showing the triumph of reality over inane illusions of perfection doesn’t lead to particularly complex drama; it is sort of like picking off myopic dreamers in a barrel.

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Poetry Review: “Foxglovewise” — Contending With Presence and Absence

January 31, 2025
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The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.

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Wanted: Inspired Choreographers

October 20, 2004
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Students and audiences of tomorrow deserve exposure to great dances, but they are not always getting them.

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Book Review: Rabih Alameddine’s “Angel of History” — Knocked Askew

October 5, 2016
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This is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.

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Theater Review: German Stage — These Youth Don’t Want to Hear No “WhiteBreadMusic”

October 15, 2014
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In interesting ways, German Stage’s ongoing exploration of Germany’s immigrant populations provides a lens through which we can evaluate how we perceive our immigrants and how we treat them.

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