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What is it about Final Summer that makes it a very good Cloud Nothings album but not a great one?
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews. Books In the remote mountain villages of Nepal, Seke is a language that is spoken by approximately six hundred people. Another hundred Seke speakers live in a single apartment building in Brooklyn, leading…
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Want to see some excellent new films? How about in pairs?
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Umphrey’s McGee’s Um Bowl was an exhaustive two-night series for non-diehards but rollercoaster nirvana for the initiated.
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“Billy Ruane built a legacy, and 14 years after his death you can still feel his presence in local clubs. He fermented a scene that still lives on today.”
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The artist is currently facing the existential throes of art-world fame and fortune.
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Ultimately, on some level, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of Bruckner Ninth functioned as a study in approaching the unknown (and unknowable) with humility.
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“We ask them to interpret the music through their own experiences, so they are connecting to and performing what Mr. Ailey called ‘blood memories’ on stage.”
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Other readers may be more sympathetic to this informative book’s broader conclusions about the rise of LP’s and the “erasure of black bodies and black aesthetics.
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Many of the circumstances and particular cases Debbie Hines discusses in “Get Off My Neck” are grim, even sickening. But her experience in the American justice system has taught Hines to choose hope and struggle over despair. And that is encouraging.
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