Friday, December 4, 2015
Top of the Hub was one of the very rare places in the country where ordinary folks would bump into jazz every night.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMChi-Raq is a work of agit-prop – preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:07AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
The music was so extraordinarily pleasant and well performed that the two hour production breezed by.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:16PMJess Foster's clever script takes the trope of “cars are like women” to its logical, though ambiguous extreme.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28PMMonday, November 30, 2015
If you’ve recently been mourning the end of the Novel of Ideas—take heart. And dig in, for Submission offers a smorgasbord.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMIf the creators of Flesh and Bone want to whip upanother trite soap opera, that’s their prerogative. But hush about the “realism.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34AMSunday, November 29, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:19PMFriday, November 27, 2015
The Flamin' Groovies in a nutshell -- doubling as a rock institution and the best party band in town.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:21PMEven without museum commentary, Native Fashion Now is an important show – visually, socially, and politically.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:02PMTrumbo is content to be a potted history lesson rather than a thought provoking work of art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
I was not fully satisfied by the constraints of the exhibit, but I enjoyed seeing the work of those who made up the Black Mountain College community.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:22PMI saw the anniversary evening as being about Twyla Tharp's perennial themes and preoccupations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMSunday, November 22, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:37PMThursday, November 19, 2015
Liars and Believers have been creating, conceptualizing, and rehearsing this show for eighteen months—and the seasoning has paid off.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:33PMThe Spirit Moves is imbued with a sense of rebirth, emotional and creative, that pairs well with Langhorne Slim’s trademark barn-burning intensity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Master of None is an exercise in emotionally intelligent storytelling that delves into the real lives of its characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:01PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Avoiding overly melodramatic images, The 33 is a true horror story on screen, one that we can identify with in the deep, fearful recesses of our collective subconscious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMSunday, November 15, 2015
Hub Theatre Company's production is artfully staged in a challenging, three-quarter round space.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:44PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:44PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Each of the ten or so music-less sections showed us a different way of composing movement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:42PMFriday, November 13, 2015
Postmodern Jukebox dials the clock back on contemporary pop.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:52AMTwo films in the Boston Jewish Film Festival: one sticks to the commonplace, the other looks at the bizarre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:45AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
I just have to use all my personal musical experience -- classical music and jazz and rock and electronic sound -- and not worry about where it fits.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:09PMIf anyone needs more evidence that graphic memoirs are the equal of purely literary ones, Invisible Ink closes the case for good.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
"The question is what piece of the American experience is next going to add the richness of its voice to the Supreme Court."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMIn Eternity's Sunrise, Leo Damrosch's prose flows, filled with imaginative lucidity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:21AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Beautifully produced by Seagull Books, The Pilgrim’s Bowl is an invaluable introduction to both painter and poet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AMSunday, November 8, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:43PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Today, Buddy Guy's vocals are as fresh and project as strongly as on any of his classic recordings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:21AMFriday, November 6, 2015
Cinemax's The Knick is gruesome, grim, and certainly not for the faint of heart.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:26PMThe history lesson embedded in Bulgarian Rhapsody is subtle yet also packs a wallop.
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