Month: June 2014
If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
Read MoreWhat I’ll remember most is how the BCE’s various choral pieces seemed custom-made for the Hayden Planetarium’s celestial projections, and how, for an hour, the so-called real world faded away.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
Read MoreThe haughty, witty Gore Vidal, my role model, was never happier than when going against the madding American populace.
Read MoreLift explores so many divergent issues that it would have been easy for the filmmakers to only give lip service to problems it raises. Thankfully, that is not the case.
Read MoreHad Bay Area Figuration taken its place in the canon, we might not find ourselves in the tiresome situation we’re in at the moment.
Read MoreYUP’s uneven Jewish Lives offers a series of short, accessible biographies that could become a significant literary mural, showcasing the scope of Jewish culture.
Read MoreThere is now an online “sonic census” of puppetry in the greater Boston area.
Read MoreEven given the over-the-top wish-fullfillment of the film’s plot, Escapement’s weak dialogue and lack of subtlety proves to be its ultimate undoing.
Read MoreThe Grand Seduction has some mawkish moments, but it’s still a very sweet movie, skillfully made and charmingly told.
Music Commentary: A Mystery Solved on the 50th Anniversary of the Release of “Queen II”