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Fuse film critic Betsy Sherman has written a series of haiku inspired by an all-night marathon of film noir screenings.
There is a paucity of richness in The Goddess Chronicle. The myth might have been, but wasn't, mined for tales of compassion, or inevitability of sorrow, or the psychology of misogyny or of …
Like Lo Fi High Fives, Personal Appeal might not be a "best of" per se, but it is certainly a good entry point for those who have been daunted by R. Stevie Moore's massive and impressive bac…
There's still an opening for someone to come along and write the final, definitive word on Black Flag. In the meantime, Spray Paint the Walls is a more than worthy placeholder, and is highly…
Scissors is a roman à clef. But Stéphane Michaka has not composed a fictionalized biography mapping out the itinerary of Raymond Carver's life. The novelist above all focuses on the crea…
Singer/songwriter Paula Cole's musical and personal journey has been a long, sometimes painful hejira.
Marian McPartland, who died on August 20 at the age of 95, was many things: a charming, gracious, and also tough-minded woman, an educator and mentor to many, an author, a business woman, an…
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music and theater that's coming up this week.
Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism " belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.
Weirdly paradoxical as the description may be, "bummer pop" is the best way to characterize the breezy half hour's worth of music in Porches' new album.
According to Chick Corea, this recording contains first impressions of the compositions that he'll be playing with his band on upcoming tours. It'll be interesting to hear how these tunes an…
The late Cedar Walton was part of some of the most potent bands in the history of jazz, most famously Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
No one associates Winslow Homer with abstraction, but Sleigh Ride (1893) indicates that he at times ventured into the non-figurative borders of landscape painting Edgar Degas was exploring i…
The last of the summer festivals are finalizing their lineups just as many of the fall indoor festivals have announced theirs.
There are plenty of intensely moving moments in this expansive biopic, based very loosely on a real White House butler named Eugene Allen, who was profiled by Wil Haygood in a 2008 Washingto…
There was a great deal of obfuscatory hype about this LP, but the time to listen to the music has finally come. And Earl Sweatshirt has delivered what sounds like a hip hop classic.
In this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.
The Boston Harbor Shipyard is a nifty setting for public art, redolent of old-school fisherman and maritime work. Its fading grandeur of weatherbeaten brick buildings, crumbling facades and …
Perhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that's coming up this week.
If the music that can touch you so deeply with so few notes weren't so magical, there's also Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebru's fascinating back-story.
We stirred in a number of scrappier shows at more experimental venues and were treated to Edinburgh's wild and wonderful arts extravaganza.
So what's a hero to do but throw punches and kicks in the name of love and forgiveness?
The third and latest LP from indie singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter proffers a vision of urban ecstasy.
What carries Blue Jasmine over the moon is the breathtaking, Oscar-worthy performance of Cate Blanchett, whose tortured Park Avenue socialite on the skids is among the most stunning performa…
