Wednesday, June 5, 2013
"Fifty Shades of Grey"'s infamous “red room of pain,” where Christian Grey keeps his S&M tools neat and clean, is never displayed, while none of the novel's dominant-submissive sexu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AMRachel Hadas' poems present deceptively calm surfaces, like a lake that hides its rich inner life on a calm day beneath bright reflections of clouds and sky.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:03AMDramatizing the essence of punk was Bradford Cox’s chief goal while composing "Monomania," which he describes as a “very avant-garde rock & roll record.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:47AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
It may be only a movie, but in his book "Film after Film," former Village Voice writer J. Hoberman proves he isn’t just a movie critic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AM"Gonna Make a Record in the Month of May" -- May 2013 and Why This Year Already Beats 2012
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMMonday, June 3, 2013
"From Denmark with Love" is playwright John J. King’s amusing mash-up of Shakespeare’s Danish tragedy and Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:08PMSunday, June 2, 2013
Theater taught me how to draw parallels, to condense, to delete triviality and to recognize significance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMSaturday, June 1, 2013
"Rapture, Blister, Burn" feels less like an exploration of feminism today than a clever sitcom pilot that won't be able to sustain its jokes for an entire season.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:30AMFriday, May 31, 2013
Arts Fuse critic select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:23AMThursday, May 30, 2013
After the critical success of 2011’s "Badlands," Alex Zhang Hungtai returns with the release of "Drifters/Love is the Devil" — a double album that expresses trauma in two devastating way…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Director Peter Jackson in his film adaptation of "The Hobbit" abandons the intimate scale of the original wonder tale and mistakenly blows it up into mythic proportions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:40PMMonday, May 27, 2013
This translation of "Poems of Consummation" is important for several reasons, one of which is that the 1977 Nobel prizewinner—despite the award—has long been insufficiently preeminent in…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:55AMFriday, May 24, 2013
The music Allan Chase’s septet presented at the Lily Pad on Wednesday night made a cogent argument for Sun Ra’s place among the great jazz composers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:08PMBoston's Outside the Box festival falls far short of its stated mission to be “revolutionary” or “world class.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMPalma Violets are the greatest live band I’ve ever seen. I’m not backing down from that.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMThursday, May 23, 2013
Vampire Weekend may hail from New York City, but with their boat shoes, button downs, and lyrics like, “Irish and proud, baby, naturally/But you got the luck of a Kennedy,” Massachusetts…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
This meticulous biography of Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov is the labor of many years and of deep reflection and care.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:03PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Ray gave us permission to peek through his doors of perception and a chance to live, for just for a few hours, in his world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:34AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Despite the show's darkness, "East 100th Street"'s exploration of Harlem in the '60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s production can’t quite get its arms around all of the varied elements in this exhilarating musical, but some terrific performances make up for other w…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMSunday, May 19, 2013
The show was like topping a delicate wedge of artisanal cheese with a handful of artisanal trail mix. Both the Christian Science Plaza and the sculptures themselves are exquisite on their ow…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:20AMFriday, May 17, 2013
Songs sometime climax with Nicky Schrire improvising in a pure tone way up in her top register, like a bird darting on an updraft.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:18PMDespite its aura of “Gidget Goes Hawaiian,” and the profusion of cute props like rubber duckies and ukeleles, The Hypocrites' production is smart enough not to mess (too much) with the o…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PMMonday, May 13, 2013
Boston Does Boston acknowledges our bands by having local musicians from all over town, as well as JP, cover songs by their fav Boston rockers and dance musicians.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMTamir Hendelman's remarkable keyboard skills are matched by his immense versatility. He's an award-winning composer and popular session player who brings all-star talent to every gig.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:50AMSunday, May 12, 2013
Despite "Middle C"’s relative cheeriness, the novel passes a tough sentence on the human race, so uncompromising that its protagonist has a hard time writing it down.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMSaturday, May 11, 2013
In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music 'live' is not a stuffy affair.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:10PMThursday, May 9, 2013
There is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe's writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:16AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Frederic Franklin was the repository of much of the tradition of 20th century ballet, and he carried on these values by personifying the essence of the genre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:52PMMay is inevitably one of the busiest times of year on the Latin, gospel, and R&B concert calendars as promoters hold Mother’s Day’s events and try to lure audiences indoors one last …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PMFriday, May 3, 2013
The first Boston Calling Music Festival, plus Buffalo Tom, Mean Creek, Andrea Gillis, and Math the Band.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PM 
