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Music Review: A Tale of Two Rockers — Pete Townshend and Mike Scott in Book Form and in Person

Though Peter Townshend is clearly the better known and more popular of the two, it was Mike Scott who produced the better book and more satisfying promotional event in Boston.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: & Memoirs, Adventures of a Waterboy, Mike Scott, Peter Townsend, Who I Am

The Annual Arts Fuse Holiday Gift Roundup — Tips From the Experts

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Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem — the sage writers for The Arts Fuse (with an assist from our readers) come to the rescue with thoughtful suggestions.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Theater Tagged: & Memoirs, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, Alex Alvear, Ambrose Bierce, and Almereyda, arts, Branagh, Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, gifts, holiday, Jimmie Lunceford, John-Coltrane, Library-of-America, Mango Blue, Mosaic-Records, New World Jazz Composers Octet, Patrick J. Cook, Paul Lieberman, Tales, The Devil's Dictionary, Thelonious Monk, Thomas-Bernhard, Victor Halfwit: A Winter's Tale, Voltaire, Zeffirelli

Book Commentary: The Scam of Mobster Memoirs

Crime memoirs about Irish mobster Whitey Bulger have become a corrupt and pathetic cottage industry.  By Jay Atkinson A large, jowly, humorless man of 49, Kevin Weeks, the one-time go-fer and strong arm for the notorious Boston crime boss, James Whitey Bulger, hurt and maimed people for a living. While his boss ran most of […]

By: Jay Atkinson Filed Under: Books, Commentary Tagged: & Memoirs, Crime, Whitey-Bulger

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