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Rob Ribera

Album Review: When Nobody/Everybody is Listening – The Basement Tapes

It may seem a bit like overkill, and in many ways it is, but that all depends on your perspective.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Big Pink, Bob-Dylan, Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, Rob Ribera, Sam Jones

Film Review: The Films of Werner Herzog on Blu-Ray — Essential Viewing

em> Director Werner Herzog has repeatedly taken us to places where few moviemakers have dared to venture; this Blu-Ray set is an essential addition to any serious film collection.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog, Rob Ribera, Shout! Factory, Werner Herzog

Book Review: Before, During, and After — A Look Back at Patriotic and Paranoid American Cinema

Informative new books look at a pair of tumultuous periods in American history — the Second World War and the Cold War — when Hollywood rode a particularly rocky political roller coaster.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Blacklist, film criticism, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, Hollywood Reds, Jeff Smith, Mark Harris, Rob Ribera, The Cold War

Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Pricked” — Building Blocks

Boston Ballet’s "Études." Photo by Rob Ribera.

Carrying cacti around the stage in boxes and placing them on their heads and in predictably suggestive positions, the Boston Ballet dancers looked like they were having a blast

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander Ekman, Boston-Ballet, Cacti, D.M.J 1953-1977, Etudes, Petr Zuska, Pricked, Rob Ribera

Television Review: “Louie” Redux — Better Than Ever

Louis C.K.’s “Louie” is a master class in straddling highbrow and lowbrow.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Louie, Louis C.K., Rob Ribera

TV/DVD Review: The Complete “Hill Street Blues” — A Groundbreaking Cop Show Untarnished by Time

The complete “Hill Street Blues” is a godsend for those eager to venture beyond “Law and Order” and “CSI” dynasties.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Deadwood, Hill Street Blues, Michael Kozol, Rob Ribera, Stephen Bochco

TV Review: “Fargo”: or, Do Contract Killers Get Bored and Create Chaos for Fun?

“Fargo” creates its own world of crime and moral conundrums while delivering a fair share of blood. Whether the TV series delivers on its promise to be in the same aesthetic world as the original movie is an open question.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Coen Brothers, Fargo, FX, Noah Hawley, Rob Ribera

Music Interview: Billy McCarthy of Augustines — Doing Strong Work

“It seems now that quality spreads through reputation — the live show is where we really see bands pull away from the pack. It takes quality now to survive. Strong work.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Rock Tagged: Augustines, Brighton Music Hall, Eric Sanderson, Rise Ye Sunken Ships, Rob Ribera

Dance Feature: Boston Ballet’s “Close to Chuck”

Sabi Varga

Surrounded by the gilded ornamentation of the Boston Opera house, the three minimalist pieces that make up “Close to Chuck” could not be any more of a contrast.

By: Arts Fuse Server Administrator Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Boston-Ballet, Close to Chuck, Rob Ribera

Visual Arts Preview: Nick Cave and William Kentridge at the ICA

Both of these exhibitions challenge our very notions of time and identity and the social structures around us.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Preview Tagged: Institute of Contemporary Art, Nick Cave, Rob Ribera, William Kentridge

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