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Television Interview: “Poetry in America” Host Elisa New — “Poetry is in all of us”

Viewers are drawn into an active, immersive experience watching the series. They come away with the feeling that poetry is in them.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Television Tagged: Elisa New, Poetry, Poetry in America, WGBH

Dance Feature: Alvin Ailey and Boston’s Elma Lewis — Beautiful Beyond Resistance

The Celebrity Series of Boston gathered a distinguished multi-generational panel to consider both the legacy of Alvin Ailey and of Elma Lewis.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Alvin Ailey, Celebrity-Series, Judith Jamison, Revelations, Revelations: The Legacies of Alvin Ailey and Boston's Elma Lewis, WGBH

Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Artery, arts-criticism, Don Aucoin, free lance theater criticism, The Boston Globe, theater-criticism, theater-reviews, wbur, WGBH

Fuse News: “The Boston Globe” and WGBH Pull the Plug on Summer Arts Weekend

“It was an amazing event and it was a blow to lose it. Free outdoor events that give people access to the arts are a rarity,”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: BostonGlobe/WGBH Summer Arts Weekend, Outside the Box, The Boston Globe Summer Arts Weekend, The Summer Arts Weekend, WGBH, WGBH Summer Arts Weekend

Fuse Commentary: Arts Criticism Isn’t Free — Support The Arts Fuse!

Those who care about the future of American arts and culture should financially support this magazine and other valiant efforts to articulate the significance of the arts.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Artery, Arts Fuse, arts-criticism, criticism, fundraiser, Summer, The Arts Fuse, The Boston Globe, wbur, WGBH

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

Arts Commentary: David Koch, WGBH Trustee — The Real God of Carnage?

The opportunity to protest the presence of Tea Party mega-funder David Koch on the board of WGBH this Wednesday should not be missed by anyone who is interested in preserving the soul (and/or sanity) of public broadcasting.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Fuse News Tagged: Citizen Koch, David Koch, Georgia Lyman, Jared Bowen, Joyce Kulhawik, Julie Hennrikus, WGBH

Fuse Commentary: The Boston Globe Disses The Lowell Folk Festival

In 2011, the Boston Globe characterized the Lowell Folk Festival as “a celebration of diversity.” This year, the floundering newspaper isn’t interested in celebrating anything but itself.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Fuse News, Music Tagged: Artery, arts coverage, Arts Summer Weekend, Lowell Folk Festival, The Boston Globe, wbur, WGBH

Fuse News: How Loud Does David Koch’s Money Talk in Boston?

Mayer’s report deals with David Koch throwing his weight around at WNET and PBS. Unfortunately, she does not talk about whether Koch’s powerful presence has influenced WGBH.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News, Radio Tagged: David Koch, Koch Industries, Public Radio, WGBH

Fuse Arts Commentary: WGBH Damage Control — Lip Service for Jazz

The plans to serve the jazz community that WGBH offered to JazzBoston during the meeting, from an internet jazz station to making Eric Jackson more visible on the station’s talk shows, are only part and parcel of the strategic dithering, a cover for lowering standards and doing little.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Radio Tagged: Eric Jackson, Persona Non Grata, Phil Redo, WGBH

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