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Jamestown is a vividly timely reminder that anyone who calls themselves an "American" is actually descended from immigrants.
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Lighting Martha delves into the psychological tensions generated by alternative lifestyles -- many, many decades ago.
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Written more than a decade ago, Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven falls all too painfully closely in line with current events.
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By Gerald Peary When was the last time that the promo short advertising a film festival turns out to be a mini-masterpiece? That's what happened at the 21st Provincetown Film Festival, June …
The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Thanks to BEMF for once again presenting Benjamin Bagby, who seems incapable of serving up anything but a wonderfully memorable experience.
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Keep Talkin' further solidifies Yoko Miwa's place on the list of pianists who can lift evolved spirits without resorting to stridency.
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Helen Gillet's music welcomes loops of all sorts and plays with the happy accidents that create new melodies and rhythms that reach beyond borders.
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Peter Schjeldahl debunks (and praises) works of art, while also acknowledging the strategic importance of beauty.
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This wide-angle richness -- a world filled with things to do, myriad side-distractions -- is the mark of exceptional game design.
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All three episodes have intriguing storylines, with plenty of human pathos and drama: but I admit to finding the first and third episodes a bit too digitally-focused for my taste.
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Director Howard Hawks' signature statement was the depiction of the American (or mostly American) male group with a task to accomplish.
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The guy who once seemed dangerous and mysterious as frontman for Jane's Addiction proved earnestly accessible to fans.
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For all its bite, Fall is oddly endearing, too, leavening its harsh portrait of money-madness with aw-shucks moments of solidarity and kindness.
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Perhaps this review is an autopsy for which I offer an apology.
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This funding means that The Arts Fuse will be cranking out the kind of arts coverage you have come to expect for a good time to come.
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May 2019 pushed far on the Summer Hit front.
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This entertaining opera is a real soap opera, given that it chronicles the fallout of the passionate protagonist's unrequited love.
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John DeLorean remains an unwieldy figure whose story is difficult to frame -- the new film leaves much unreported and unexplored.
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The Dead Don't Die is a satiric trifle, but a cleverly amusing one.
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Pacific Overtures offers a history lesson -- but it is an entertaining, moving, thought-provoking, and timely one.
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The media big boys should be part of the discussion, if only because they have the resources to change the situation for the better.
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It's an uncommon pleasure to see band members enjoy themselves the way Tip City did.
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Letters from Gettysburg is an extraordinarily haunting five-movement work that elevates the experience of one man into a memorial to all victims of war.
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