Friday, 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 01:24PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
A two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:37PMChhandika is dedicated to keeping the intricate and expressive art form of Kathak dance relevant to contemporary audiences, particularly to those who are not familiar with the Ramayana.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:11PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
The best rock biopics, like "24 Hour Party People," "I’m Not There," and "The Doors," aren’t afraid to get a little weird, even if it means throwing verifiable facts to the wind.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:08PMThe best parts of this book of interviews come when Charles Mingus or his collaborators talk about the music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:05AMSunday, April 28, 2013
Knowledge-burdened Ph.D.’s and passionate young mothers, deep into their problems and their futures. You had to compete to converse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:30AMSaturday, April 27, 2013
One of the world’s greatest bass players recently enthralled a standing-room only crowd with a masterful performance, and the attendees could not have numbered more than 75 people.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMThursday, April 25, 2013
Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys specializes in modern psychedelic rock stripped of the jam-band baggage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:09PMMoroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi's autobiographical fiction draws deeply on his own childhood in Fez during the late 1940s and especially the 1950s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
I was curious to see how the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent events would filter into the fest. It began with my Facebook newsfeed displaying “Going to Worcester to blow off steam�…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AMMonday, April 22, 2013
There was probably no better summing up of Woodstock Nation than the lines, “Sometimes, I feel, like a motherless child/A long ways from my home.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:02PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
James Longenbach's ear for the nuances of diction, tone, stress, and the material aspects of poetry is so good, and his grasp of context and biography so assured, one wonders why the essays …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:58AMFriday, April 19, 2013
In her groundbreaking study, Tufts University professor Alisha Rankin revises the history of medicine by showing that women, presumed to be marginal in the development early modern medicine,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:56PMThursday, April 18, 2013
Ten Freedom Summers is a masterful, supple series of compositions that has the gravitas of a major work that also, from time to time, it swings dramatically.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:10PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Moving restlessly between independence and interdependence in style and content, the lecture captures the changeling quality that Gish Jen associates with those who must creatively manage mu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
The wizards of mandolin and jazz piano were in perfect sync, blending styles and breaking barriers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:40PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Pianist Donal Fox is a classical musician by training, and in style, with a yen for improvisation and, one might add, an unwillingness to let things be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:16PMMichael Wolfe’s superb translations of classic epitaphs from the Greek Anthology begins in prehistory and ends in the sixth century C.E. Cut These Words Into My Stone: Ancient Greek Ep…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:33PMThursday, April 11, 2013
The emotional peak of the entire night was Bob Dylan's gently understated performance of “What Good Am I?” from 1989’s Oh Mercy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:08AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
No! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:05PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
It was while watching the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament that I stumbled upon an interesting trend: non-American rock music being used in American advertising campaigns.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22PMWhat Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:26PM"By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" suggests the dismissive attitude the public has toward African American actors, but the script doesn’t go far enough to make its title character three-dimensi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:57AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Poet Mikhail Kuzmin, born in the 1870s into a family of Russian Old Believers, was a passionate exponent of gay literature in the early twentieth century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:09PMSunday, April 7, 2013
Yves Bonnefoy's book is, fundamentally, a spiritual autobiography; yet it draws extensively on the outside world and ponders how it can be described in writing or depicted in painting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMSaturday, April 6, 2013
A hedonist and humanist, admired filmmaker Ricky Leacock was curious about everyone, including the rich and famous, especially if he could show them sans their celebrity masks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:11PMThe chief glory of the Lyric Stage production: an ensemble of eight actors that agilely accents the humor dramatist Lynn Nottage utilizes to temper her examination of the darker racial and p…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:30PMThe Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra sought bravely to straddle the jazz and classical worlds with a little help from some star soloists.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMFriday, April 5, 2013
Bianco Amato is a marvel as Anton Chekov's widow, Olga Knipper, who can turn her fake emotions on a ruble.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:52PMThursday, April 4, 2013
In the end, it is not the brilliance of his criticism or the strength of his prose for which we will remember Roger Ebert, but his humanity and his love—for film, for life, and, most of al…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:31PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
It is April in New England and for local music that means one thing, it’s time to RUMBLE!.
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