Commentary
After 36 years of twice-a-week pickup basketball at the Cambridge Y at Central Square, I recently cleared my locker and said adieu.
In honor of what would have been Leonard Bernstein’s hundredth birthday, the Tanglewood Festival is pulling out all the stops.
I love subtlety, and beauty, and trash, and terror, in equal measure.
Boston theater critics value stage venues that are “convenient” and “familiar.”
Why is The Berkshire Museum a sinking ship?
Even after death, the human instinct is to kill or be killed.
The well has evaporated for much of new American independent cinema.

Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?
Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.
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