Commentary
Why are Boston stages reacting so serenely to our current miasmas — pandemical, political, economic, and spiritual.
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
Carla Bley’s last three CDs are not a casual sequence, and hearing all of them together, as I did recently, provides a refreshing reminder of her greatness.
Jazz Review/Interview: Duncan Heining Revises His Landmark Biography of Jazz Composer George Russell
If you do not know George Russell, this book will bring you closer to one of the geniuses of American music.
“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus
The Atlanta-based label Dust-to-Digital would like to show us the flip side of The Anthology of American Folk Music, but they don’t like what they hear.
“A play like The Living pricks the conscience of the country. It is the reason I wanted to produce and direct it.”
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the latest product of our heated social/political/cultural debates about America’s memorials and their vision of the country’s past, present, and future.
This fascinating book, and the rich literature of films and writings around it, have helped me feel a bit more positive about these shrunken times.
Film Review: The Best Horror of 2020
It was the most terrifying of times, it was the most horrifying of times.
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