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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, visual arts, and dance that's coming up this week.
Yes, Gary Numan's jumped a bandwagon, but the former new-wave hitmaker has done it with style.
Robin Lane's story goes back to her '60s days as a child of Hollywood glamor, her long tenure as a Boston rock survivor, and her recent renaissance as a musical counsellor for abused women.
Centered on the acting talents of the late Tuncel Kurtiz, the film is a ribald, engaging, and briskly-paced concoction of improvisation and folklore with a cast consisting of actual resident…
Deconstructing the "White Album" -- How the Beatles could fight Like cats and work like dogs.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that's coming up this week.
A case could very easily be made for George Clinton as an anarchistic innovator who has played a larger role than he gets credit for in shaping a genre of music which probably defines the ma…
"Company" explores a very relevant question in our technological age, where human interaction can be watered down to clicking on 'like' or 'share' buttons: how do we share our lives with oth…
All the prancing about onstage with planks of wood, actors climbing into eight-foot large puppet skeletons, is marvelous to behold, but it makes for an uneven, confusing production.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that's coming up this week.
Quatuor Ébène burst into song. And I think it's safe to say singing of any kind is almost never heard at a strings-only concert.
"It seems now that quality spreads through reputation -- the live show is where we really see bands pull away from the pack. It takes quality now to survive. Strong work."
"Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science" makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.
The LP format has had mobs of claims made about it over the years, some silly, some solid. As an old platter-flipper pro, here's my take on some of them.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and theater that's coming up this week.
As a songwriter, Stephen Malkmus specializes in hooks that never quite resolve, melodies that jump in all directions, and lyrics that drop a few enticing references and then move on.
George Orwell strikes me as a man who was easy to love because he had a tenderness in him that runs like a stream throughout these letters and makes you feel, as you read, how much you would…
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, and theater that's coming up this week.
If George Clooney can rev up our righteous indignation decrying the barbarities of Joe McCarthy, why on earth couldn't he become eloquent when it comes to talking about fighting to keep Hitl…
Those of us who have heard Gerald Finley and Julius Drake knew what we were in for - truly beautiful singing throughout every range, and brilliantly expressive piano story-telling.
The celebrated post-punk band Mission of Burma played a benefit show for Somerville Local First at Regent Theatre: their instrumental interplay is more intuitive than ever.
Filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar takes what could have been a true crime story and conducts his own inquiry about human suggestibility. You may not be convinced that Pamela Smart is innocent, but yo…
Most everyone has heard the faux-scandalous name. What has not been heard enough is that Pussy Riot are the purest and most potent expression of the punk-rock ethos ever.
Adding a female voice to an established funk/roots band can be tricky " but it took about half a song for Maggie Koerner to win over the crowd on Friday.
Both of these exhibitions challenge our very notions of time and identity and the social structures around us.
