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Coming Attractions: October 31 through November 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 31, 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.

Film Series Review: Columbia 101 — The Rarities, A Tasty Cinematic Smorgasbord

November 4, 2025
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A preview of a few of the obscure gems and curios in this huzzah to Columbia Pictures.

Theater Review: “Anything Helps God Bless” — Portland’s Lower Depths

December 23, 2016
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Anything Helps God Bless would benefit from sharpening its dramatic focus, even though that means losing some valuable material.

Book Review: “The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir” — A Guide to Blue Collar Community Organizing

July 14, 2025
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On the hard wooden benches of a jail in Lowell, dialoguing with his street-fighting antagonists, we sense the emergence of organizer Michael Ansara’s strategy for working-class political action.

Book Interview: Translator Julie Rose on the Lyrical Power of Émile Zola’s “Doctor Pascal”

May 12, 2021
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Published in August of 2020, Oxford University Press’s English translation of Doctor Pascal marked the first time that Émile Zola’s 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series was available in print under one publisher.

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

May 9, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Coming Attractions: June 2 through 18 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 2, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

AT DOC NYC: A Filmmaker’s Farewell to a Friend, Flophouse Vérité, and the Fight for “Female Viagra”

December 4, 2025
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A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.

Book Review: The Blissful “Botched-Night Splendor” of Tram 83

October 2, 2015
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Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.

March Short Fuses — Materia Critica

March 2, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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