Monday, October 28, 2013
The slow tempos on the whole didn’t hurt the show. People were there to hear Madeleine Peryoux — her voice and delivery, her offbeat arrangements and particular idiosyncratic take on fam…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:07PMFriday, October 25, 2013
Any book in which the fourth sentence is “The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia” runs the risk of overstating its case from the get-go.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:58PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Although Gene Yang envisions a similarity between the Boxers (once transformed into their mythological hero aspects) and modern superheroes, BOXERS & SAINTS is far from a simple good vs…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:58AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
In this powerful book, Jim Hicks explores a collection of narratives about the experience of war in many genres and a wide range of media that eschew the sentimental.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:29PMMonday, October 21, 2013
Despite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:57AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Reveries, the ice ballet that audiences will get to see in a special benefit performance this weekend, is Edward Villella's translation of balletic structures and forms into contemporary fig…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:50AMSunday, October 13, 2013
Every few years, people ask, “Is Jazz Dead?” Nights like this, with living masters and future stars all paying homage to a dead legend whose music will live forever, refute the pessimism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
Tomorrow night Deacon Leslie Pittman, an emerging star on the gospel quartet circuit at the age of 81, comes into town with Philadelphia’s Just Us Singers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:21AMFriday, October 11, 2013
Updated. Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMThursday, October 10, 2013
Cocaine's bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMThe audience, mostly gray-haired seniors and aging baby boomers, walked out with smiles on their faces, as did I.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:35AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMThe 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/o…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMSunday, October 6, 2013
With this LP, Daniel Lopatin has crafted an immaculate aural landscape that one can (and will want to) lose oneself in for hours.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AMFriday, October 4, 2013
Between the heroin, booze, and all else that Mexico had to offer, there was little to no time for William S. Burroughs to appreciate the culture of his adopted home.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:20PMKneebody threw jazz into the stylistic blender and it popped out as something you probably haven’t heard before. The future sounds good.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:29PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Over the past five years of Breaking Bad, the chemistry of fate has run its course.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:15PMCurator Jorge Antonio Fernández succeeds, for the most part, in creating a stimulating show that is held together by formal and conceptual associations, not just political concerns.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMSaturday, September 28, 2013
Overall, VII finds Blitzen Trapper maintaining its musical muscle even though its lyricist occasionally struggles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:25AMThursday, September 26, 2013
Today, the fountain at Copley Place feels embarrassing in some way; not its form or execution, but its very existence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
With an eclectic visual style that includes animation, and narration spoken with conviction by D.C. native Henry Rollins, The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan tries to accentuate the positive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:08PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
While Múm sometimes succumbs to the monotony that's a predictable risk for chill electronic acts, in Smilewound the group has brought together a set of intricately-crafted folktronic songs…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMFriday, September 20, 2013
Jazz Guitarist Eric Hofbauer likes to deconstruct tunes and scramble them with free-associative juxtaposition.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMThursday, September 19, 2013
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:33PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
If Patrizia Cavalli’s poetry is egocentric, even probably autobiographical, its narrator shows a detachment enabling her to observe herself from one remove, even when she describes herself…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:16PMTuesday, September 17, 2013
The obvious question is how can such a sprawling free festival – and the nightly fireworks shop that capped two of the nights – happen in such a cash-strapped city?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:47AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Lousy with Sylvianbriar proves that of Montreal is still fully capable of crafting catchy and rollicking rock songs when it wants to.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMSunday, September 15, 2013
George Scialabba is still outfoxing the professional eggheads in For the Republic, his third collection of essays on political and cultural topics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMFriday, September 13, 2013
While it has its highlights, The Family limits our frame of reference to other movies, rather than anything resembling real life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:00PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:34PMMany artistically inclined people would probably cite Frida Kahlo or Diego Rivera as the region’s representative artists. That is a shame, because the breath of contemporary Latin American…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AM 
