Friday, May 2, 2014
The complete "Hill Street Blues" is a godsend for those eager to venture beyond "Law and Order" and "CSI" dynasties.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
"The space between fantasy and reality is a very charged one. Fiction can explore that, which might be one reason why I’m so drawn to it as a form."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:30PMSunday, April 27, 2014
California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:55AMSaturday, April 26, 2014
Better than Ezra may be more than a hardworking, nice-guy band permanently fated to be overshadowed by more significant artists.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Now that the dust has settled after the announcement that Stephen Colbert will be replacing David Letterman on "The Late Show" next year, it is time for some thoughtful analysis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:51AMMonday, April 21, 2014
If Boy George had carried on in this vein — working the best of the old in with the new, and keeping the soul roots upfront — the night would have been a surprise triumph.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMFriday, April 18, 2014
Kevin Young's poetic line is generally on the brusque side, generating a pithy, earthy, evocative quality that hovers somewhere between the haiku-like jazziness of Robert Creeley and the del…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:57PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
"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 ori…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:46PMA fast-paced, fact-laden book by two "Boston Globe" reporters about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that doesn't answer the tough questions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:17PMSunday, April 13, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
As a solo artist, Neil Finn’s moved away from straightforward pop and toward a moodier sound, with lyrics asking bigger questions about life and mortality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:08AMSaturday, April 5, 2014
A sensitive folkie may tell you to get beyond your negativity; these guys tell you to “take all that bullshit and put it in the dumpsta.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:05AMFriday, April 4, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:47AMSunday, March 30, 2014
Not many movies try to wring poignancy out of a distraught man standing in a field, shouting his anguish to the sky, while holding two severed limbs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:16PMFriday, March 28, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, visual arts, and dance that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:30AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
Yes, Gary Numan’s jumped a bandwagon, but the former new-wave hitmaker has done it with style.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:04PMSunday, March 23, 2014
Robin Lane's story goes back to her ‘60s days as a child of Hollywood glamor, her long tenure as a Boston rock survivor, and her recent renaissance as a musical counsellor for abused women.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:56PMCentered on the acting talents of the late Tuncel Kurtiz, the film is a ribald, engaging, and briskly-paced concoction of improvisation and folklore with a cast consisting of actual resident…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:47AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Deconstructing the "White Album" -- How the Beatles could fight Like cats and work like dogs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:38PMArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:22PMSunday, March 16, 2014
A case could very easily be made for George Clinton as an anarchistic innovator who has played a larger role than he gets credit for in shaping a genre of music which probably defines the ma…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:19AMFriday, March 14, 2014
"Company" explores a very relevant question in our technological age, where human interaction can be watered down to clicking on ‘like’ or ‘share’ buttons: how do we share our lives …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:15PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
All the prancing about onstage with planks of wood, actors climbing into eight-foot large puppet skeletons, is marvelous to behold, but it makes for an uneven, confusing production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:35AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that's coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Quatuor Ébène burst into song. And I think it’s safe to say singing of any kind is almost never heard at a strings-only concert.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
"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."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:21PMMonday, March 3, 2014
"Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science" makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:57AMSaturday, March 1, 2014
The LP format has had mobs of claims made about it over the years, some silly, some solid. As an old platter-flipper pro, here's my take on some of them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:00PMFriday, February 28, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and theater that's coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
As a songwriter, Stephen Malkmus specializes in hooks that never quite resolve, melodies that jump in all directions, and lyrics that drop a few enticing references and then move on.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:44PMGeorge Orwell strikes me as a man who was easy to love because he had a tenderness in him that runs like a stream throughout these letters and makes you feel, as you read, how much you would…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:29AM 
