1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Lou Reed has left us, but the truths he took pains to show us about ourselves and our society - much as we try to cover them up - remain.
The slow tempos on the whole didn't hurt the show. People were there to hear Madeleine Peryoux " her voice and delivery, her offbeat arrangements and particular idiosyncratic take on familia…
Any book in which the fourth sentence is "The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia" runs the risk of overstating its case from the get-go.
Although Gene Yang envisions a similarity between the Boxers (once transformed into their mythological hero aspects) and modern superheroes, BOXERS & SAINTS is far from a simple good vs…
In this powerful book, Jim Hicks explores a collection of narratives about the experience of war in many genres and a wide range of media that eschew the sentimental.
Despite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.
Reveries, the ice ballet that audiences will get to see in a special benefit performance this weekend, is Edward Villella's translation of balletic structures and forms into contemporary fig…
Every few years, people ask, "Is Jazz Dead?" Nights like this, with living masters and future stars all paying homage to a dead legend whose music will live forever, refute the pessimism.
Tomorrow night Deacon Leslie Pittman, an emerging star on the gospel quartet circuit at the age of 81, comes into town with Philadelphia's Just Us Singers.
Updated. Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that's coming up this week.
Cocaine's bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.
The audience, mostly gray-haired seniors and aging baby boomers, walked out with smiles on their faces, as did I.
Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.
The opportunity to protest the presence of Tea Party mega-funder David Koch on the board of WGBH this Wednesday should not be missed by anyone who is interested in preserving the soul (and/o…
With this LP, Daniel Lopatin has crafted an immaculate aural landscape that one can (and will want to) lose oneself in for hours.
Between the heroin, booze, and all else that Mexico had to offer, there was little to no time for William S. Burroughs to appreciate the culture of his adopted home.
Kneebody threw jazz into the stylistic blender and it popped out as something you probably haven't heard before. The future sounds good.
Over the past five years of Breaking Bad, the chemistry of fate has run its course.
Curator Jorge Antonio Fernández succeeds, for the most part, in creating a stimulating show that is held together by formal and conceptual associations, not just political concerns.
Overall, VII finds Blitzen Trapper maintaining its musical muscle even though its lyricist occasionally struggles.
Today, the fountain at Copley Place feels embarrassing in some way; not its form or execution, but its very existence.
With an eclectic visual style that includes animation, and narration spoken with conviction by D.C. native Henry Rollins, The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan tries to accentuate the positive.
While Múm sometimes succumbs to the monotony that's a predictable risk for chill electronic acts, in Smilewound the group has brought together a set of intricately-crafted folktronic son…
Jazz Guitarist Eric Hofbauer likes to deconstruct tunes and scramble them with free-associative juxtaposition.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, dance, and film that's coming up this week.
