Month: May 2012
Heading north this weekend? Whether you’re traveling all the way to Burlington, VT, or just to the left bank of the Charles, summer 2012’s jazz festival season is off to a fine start. Then, the action mid-month shifts south to New Haven.
Read MoreJune has a couple shows that venture into the far reaches of sound. Make sure to go to the Baczkowski, Nace, Corsano, Kelley show at Spectacle in Jamaica Plain, MA.
Read More‘Tis is the season for film festivals in the Boston and Massachusetts area. From Provincetown and Nantucket to the Berkshires and Roxbury, it’s a cornucopia of international, documentary, and narrative film.
Read MoreIt’s a worthy effort –- and, as a listener, how many times will you have the chance for real adventure inside a concert hall?
Read MoreFar from being a down month, June marks the start of New England’s summer classical music season.
Read MoreThe month of May was a tough time for rock music in New England. With the impending death of WFNX and presumably local music radio show Boston Accents, there is now one less exposure avenue for our hometown heroes. Not to worry! New England musicians are of a hardy stock, and a little corporate control will never keep them down.
Read MoreOf the major 20th-century writers in English, Patrick White stands with the best, partly because he refused to repeat himself, and partly because he refuses to tell you everything, so that when you read him there is a sense of discovery.
Read MoreJudging by the trailer for The Great Gatsby, it looks as if director Baz Luhrmann’s habitual excess will overwhelm the lyrical beauty and subtle power of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.
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Arts Commentary: What Makes a Critic Tick? Harvard Business School Hasn’t a Clue
I have read the Harvard Business School study about critics and it is clueless on so many levels about the craft and mechanics of reviewing that it is astonishing that major newspapers and magazines have taken it seriously.
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