Wednesday, July 23, 2014
"Music is kind of like a religion in a way, and your heroes become your patron saints."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:47PMThe late Otto Piene was a world-class artist. He created large scale and elegant environmental art pieces that seamlessly combined art, participation, and technology.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
One good reason to see Matthew Sweet is that his songs are more immediate live than on CD.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:44AMFriday, July 18, 2014
At first, Love is Strange seems to be about the trials and tribulations of dealing with prejudice in today's world. But at closer inspection, it is really a moving depiction of the challeng…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:44AMInformative 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.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AMThursday, July 17, 2014
The Nora Theatre Company's production of Her Aching Heart has enough energy, wit, challenge, and—yes—heart to delight those who approach the rousing satire with the right spirit.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMWednesday, July 16, 2014
The mega-popular video game Angry Birds is nothing if not hypocritical. A story of political and moral resistance is packaged to fill corporate coffers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:35PMThe Summer of Flying Fish is visual to the max; Stranger Then Paradise remains one of the most important indie films of the last thirty years.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AMThe under-appreciated singer-songwriter Tommy Keene is equal parts an aficionado and creator of pop music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:02AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
A Master Builder comes off as a Woody Allen wet dream, but Heavenly Angle is the love child of Alice's Restaurant and Waiting for Guffman.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:47PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Gary Shteyngart's memoir proffers the rhetorical zest and caustic wit of his novels, but it lacks their satiric edge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:37PMSaturday, July 12, 2014
The late Tommy Ramones' drumming was as key as any component in the band's makeup.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:09PMFriday, July 11, 2014
Darker Shades of Red focuses on the Soviet Union's creation of internal propaganda, its array of striking posters aimed at keeping those in the homeland and the occupied territories in line.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:31AMThursday, July 10, 2014
Since then, they have remained as indefatigable as ever in terms of writing, recording, and touring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMMonday, July 7, 2014
In Third Person , the characters are so intentionally mysterious that, oddly, the surfeit of enigma denies them any depth of personality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:23PMSaturday, July 5, 2014
Begin Again is a film with considerable flaws and strengths. The later include stellar performances by Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, and Hailee Steinfeld.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:26AMMonday, June 30, 2014
If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:02PMSaturday, June 28, 2014
Lift explores so many divergent issues that it would have been easy for the filmmakers to only give lip service to problems it raises. Thankfully, that is not the case.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:08AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Even given the over-the-top wish-fullfillment of the film's plot, Escapement's weak dialogue and lack of subtlety proves to be its ultimate undoing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
The beauty of this documentary is that even as it makes you laugh, the story's essential sadness remains. Though it is very fast-paced, the film makes you stop and think -- it's as unsettlin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AMMonday, June 23, 2014
Echo's Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:20AMSunday, June 22, 2014
"It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:15PMSaturday, June 21, 2014
Classic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who�…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20AMFriday, June 20, 2014
May Odyssey Opera continue gracing Boston’s opera scene for seasons to come with such delightful performances as this.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
The renovation of the North Bennet Street School now brings together all of its educational and administrative programs into a single facility with expansive floor space and natural lighting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:43PMMonday, June 16, 2014
People complain about how no one takes literature seriously these days. Tell that to the millions of people who are participating in Bloomsday celebrations worldwide today.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:29PMSunday, June 15, 2014
Even by Widespread Panic’s intuitive standards, this was a fairly challenging show: The setlist seemed to favor their deeper, less outgoing material.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
I love Saturday Night Live as much as the next guy, but as far as I’m concerned Kids In The Hall did much more with much less than Lorne Michael’s comedy fiefdom.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:58PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
The challenging viola part takes prominence in Shostakovich's String Quartet no. 13, highlighting an essential yet oft-unsung voice of a string quartet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:15PMMonday, June 9, 2014
A Sentimental Novel, which seems to be at once pornography and a parody of pornography, is designed to provoke both revulsion and titillation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AMThursday, June 5, 2014
Retired Associate Justice John Paul Stevens' book Six Amendments is unlikely to restore any of the love lost between him and the GOP.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:07AM 
