1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Each of the ten or so music-less sections showed us a different way of composing movement.
Postmodern Jukebox dials the clock back on contemporary pop.
Two films in the Boston Jewish Film Festival: one sticks to the commonplace, the other looks at the bizarre.
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.
If anyone needs more evidence that graphic memoirs are the equal of purely literary ones, Invisible Ink closes the case for good.
"The question is what piece of the American experience is next going to add the richness of its voice to the Supreme Court."
In Eternity's Sunrise, Leo Damrosch's prose flows, filled with imaginative lucidity.
Beautifully produced by Seagull Books, The Pilgrim's Bowl is an invaluable introduction to both painter and poet.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Today, Buddy Guy's vocals are as fresh and project as strongly as on any of his classic recordings.
Cinemax's The Knick is gruesome, grim, and certainly not for the faint of heart.
The history lesson embedded in Bulgarian Rhapsody is subtle yet also packs a wallop.
Dough contains plenty of tasty charm and passion.
Other than a highway sign not much remains, but the artistic legacy of Black Mountain College is truly indelible.
Two recent horror films know what they are doing: they are intelligent, clever, original, and genuinely disturbing.
"This is JETHRO TULL!, expressed proudly in bold terms. And then 'the rock opera,' said in an embarrassed whisper."
What seems to animate many of the fairy tales is a heady freedom from the constraints of realism, the style we associate most strongly with Victorian fiction.
I missed the trademark orange Dynel wigs and the zany non sequiturs of the past, but Karen Krolak and the crew were still playing with fractured language.
Steve Jobs is a one-dimensional film about a terminally self-absorbed character.
Anne Curry's purpose is not merely to act as a military analyst, but to explore the long cultural history of the battle's meanings in subsequent British history.
Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture, which possible antidotes to the consumerist and individualist fevers that have driven the US to delirium.
Both dances may limn our own Age of Anxiety, and the modern ways it manifests within us.
My overall impression of the ballet was of earnest pretension.
The Spellbound Contemporary Ballet performed the U.S. premiere of Le Quattro Stagioni.
For a long novel, City on Fire is generously accessible and one of its strengths is in its absorbing, immersive momentum.
