1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
In the end, William Kamkwamba's story in "William and the Windmill" is deeply inspirational. As the saying goes, talent is universal, opportunity is not.
"Fifty Shades of Grey"'s infamous "red room of pain," where Christian Grey keeps his S&M tools neat and clean, is never displayed, while none of the novel's dominant-submissive sexual f…
Rachel Hadas' poems present deceptively calm surfaces, like a lake that hides its rich inner life on a calm day beneath bright reflections of clouds and sky.
Dramatizing the essence of punk was Bradford Cox's chief goal while composing "Monomania," which he describes as a "very avant-garde rock & roll record."
It may be only a movie, but in his book "Film after Film," former Village Voice writer J. Hoberman proves he isn't just a movie critic.
"Gonna Make a Record in the Month of May" -- May 2013 and Why This Year Already Beats 2012
"From Denmark with Love" is playwright John J. King's amusing mash-up of Shakespeare's Danish tragedy and Ian Fleming's Secret Agent 007.
Theater taught me how to draw parallels, to condense, to delete triviality and to recognize significance.
"Rapture, Blister, Burn" feels less like an exploration of feminism today than a clever sitcom pilot that won't be able to sustain its jokes for an entire season.
Arts Fuse critic select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
After the critical success of 2011's "Badlands," Alex Zhang Hungtai returns with the release of "Drifters/Love is the Devil" " a double album that expresses trauma in two devastating ways --…
Director Peter Jackson in his film adaptation of "The Hobbit" abandons the intimate scale of the original wonder tale and mistakenly blows it up into mythic proportions.
This translation of "Poems of Consummation" is important for several reasons, one of which is that the 1977 Nobel prizewinner"despite the award"has long been insufficiently preeminent in our…
The music Allan Chase's septet presented at the Lily Pad on Wednesday night made a cogent argument for Sun Ra's place among the great jazz composers.
Boston's Outside the Box festival falls far short of its stated mission to be "revolutionary" or "world class."
Palma Violets are the greatest live band I've ever seen. I'm not backing down from that.
Vampire Weekend may hail from New York City, but with their boat shoes, button downs, and lyrics like, "Irish and proud, baby, naturally/But you got the luck of a Kennedy," Massachusetts is …
This meticulous biography of Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov is the labor of many years and of deep reflection and care.
Ray gave us permission to peek through his doors of perception and a chance to live, for just for a few hours, in his world.
Despite the show's darkness, "East 100th Street"'s exploration of Harlem in the '60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston's production can't quite get its arms around all of the varied elements in this exhilarating musical, but some terrific performances make up for other weakn…
The show was like topping a delicate wedge of artisanal cheese with a handful of artisanal trail mix. Both the Christian Science Plaza and the sculptures themselves are exquisite on their ow…
Songs sometime climax with Nicky Schrire improvising in a pure tone way up in her top register, like a bird darting on an updraft.
Despite its aura of "Gidget Goes Hawaiian," and the profusion of cute props like rubber duckies and ukeleles, The Hypocrites' production is smart enough not to mess (too much) with the origi…
Boston Does Boston acknowledges our bands by having local musicians from all over town, as well as JP, cover songs by their fav Boston rockers and dance musicians.
