National Pride (and Prejudice) wants us to reexamine the relationship between a country's iconic images and its not-so-reassuring realities.
"I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox's checkered history in terms of race."
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, author events, and theater for the coming week.
If your tastes run to finely crafted songwriting, then the standout event between Christmas and New Year's is when Melissa Ferrick and Marshall Crenshaw roll into Club Passim on separate nig…
In The Gambler, Mark Whalberg gives a performance he should be proud of.
Holiday Edition: Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.
At their best, the exhibitions at the restored, renovated, and expanded Cooper-Hewitt Museum explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts with transcendent panache.
Walter is pure evil. Margaret is pure good. And that is Big Eye's undoing.
Wild is a compelling stream-of-consciousness narrative that mirrors how we actually make sense of our life experiences as we have them and then remember them.
So many of the truly gifted actors of the British stage and screen of the 1960s 'kitchen sink' dramas are rapidly leaving us. One of the best, Billie Whitelaw, departed this week.
Holiday Edition: Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, and theater for the coming week.
Many superb live shows over the past year -- but there were some that were memorable.
Exodus: Gods and Kings is a tribute to those overblown biblical movies of the 1950s, albeit with all the eye-candy trappings that today's high tech special effects can offer.
What made for the best rock and alternative music listening this year? Arts Fuse critics make their choices.
Our demanding critics choose the best and worst films of the year.
More than holiday knock-offs, Nick Lowe's Christmas songs were his strongest batch of originals in awhile.
Award-winning historian Joel Williamson would seem to have the credentials to illuminate Elvis as a distinctly Southern phenomenon.
Andrew Roberts has succeeded in a single volume in reconciling the two faces of this historical colossus.
[Updated] Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem"the sage writers for The Arts Fuse (with an assist from our readers) come to the rescue with t…
Whether you are new or returning to the Super Smash Bros. series as a veteran, get this title on the Wii U and skip the 3DS version -- unless you absolutely have to have the game on-the-go.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater for the coming  week.
Be prepared for some challenging, off-the-beaten path choices, including a new tradition.
For those of us who love Christmas music, Aimee Mann and company showed how to do it right: a lot of lovely songs and festive spirits, not a lot of sticky sentiment.
As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.
If the fate of life on earth comes down to mother and daughter bonding over a racy passage in Anaïs Nin, then he whales should just call it a day.