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Music/Book Interview: Ann Powers — On Love, Sex, and Popular Music

“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: Ann Powers, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music, Good Booty: Love and Sex, NPR

Fuse Views: No More Double Talk at WGBH?

This is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Committee for Community Access, FCC, NPR, wbur, WGBH

Fuse News Review: Terry Gross’s Thrice-Told Tales

What has NPR’s Terry Gross learned after all these years of probing famous people’s psyches? “We are all mortal. Life is short, and for some life is full of pain.”

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Fuse News, Radio Tagged: Fresh Air, NPR, Terry Gross, The Celebrity Series of Boston

Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed

Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Fuse News Tagged: ballet, Maria Tallchief, NPR

Arts Remembrance: A Grateful Farewell to this Generation’s Best Champion of the Short Story

Isaiah Sheffer’s lasting contribution will be his almost single-handed revival of interest in that most beguiling of fictional forms, the short story.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: A Celebration of the Short Story, Isaiah Sheffert, NPR, short story, Symphony Space

Book Review and Interview: “The Lost History of 1914” — Almost the War That Wasn’t

In his exploration of history, Jack Beatty suggests that World War I, as we know it, was an improbable event.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Jack Beatty, NPR, On Point, Short Fuse, The Lost History of 1914, World War I

Coming Attractions in Theater: March 2011

An exciting month, and that isn’t hyperbole. A couple of North American premieres: a futuristic opera from MIT’s Tod Machover and poet Robert Pinsky and a drama tweaking The New Testament from Howard Brenton. Toss in iconic director Peter Brook staging Beckett, F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, and Car Talk:The Musical and you are talking about taking out the smelling salts

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Opera, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, ArtsEmerson, Bear Patrol, Book of Days, Car Talk: The Musical, Click and Clack, Come and Go, Danny Boyle, Darko Tresnjak, Death and the Powers:The Robots' Opera, Diane Paulus, Educating Rita, Elevator Repair Service, F. Murray Abraham, Fragmens, Frankenstein, Howard Benson, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John J. King, Karole-Armitage, Lanford Wilson, Marie-Hélène Estienne, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Modern Theatre, National Theatre Live, Neil-Labute, Neither, Nick Dear, NPR, NT Live, Opera, Paul, Peter Brook, Poetry, Ray and Tom Magliozzi, Reasons to Be Pretty, Robert Pinsky, Rockaby, Rough for Theatre I, samuel-beckett, Seth Rozin, Shylock, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, The Merchant of Venice, The Rimers of Eldritch, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Theatre for a New Audience, Tod Machover, Two Jews Walk Into a War .., Vaquero Playground, Wesley Savick, Weylin Symes, William-Shakespeare, Willy Russell

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