Interview

Book Interview: Todd Tietchen on Jack Kerouac — Torn Between Routes and Roots.

April 20, 2015
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The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.

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Film Interview — Brian Tamm and Nancy Campbell On This Year’s IFFBoston

April 18, 2015
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“We’ve let too many valuable creative people leave for Brooklyn, Austin, and Portland. We need to do something about that.”

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Dance Interview: The Tamagawa Daigaku Taiko and Dance Group Comes to Town

March 29, 2015
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Boston was first introduced to ensemble taiko in 1975, when members of the Japanese group Kodō crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon and moments later performed.

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Rock Interview: Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens, “practically an honorary Boston band”

March 18, 2015
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“The kids in Boston accepted us unconditionally, and we hung out with everyone out there—Barrence Whitfield, the Bristols, the Del Fuegos.”

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Visual Arts Interview: “The Way We Live Now” — Blending Modernist Architecture and Contemporary Art

March 18, 2015
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“Working on The Way We Live Now was a natural process of learning about modernist architecture and the dominating visions of figures such as Le Corbusier, Mies, and Adolf Loos.”

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Arts Interview: America’s Arts Economy — Future Tragically Imperfect

February 23, 2015
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Over the next two decades, slow-creeping climate change is coming to the arts in America — the arctic ice on which the creative class stands is melting.

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Fuse Music Interview: Jim Lauderdale joins Della Mae at the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival

February 10, 2015
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A country maverick talks about becoming a bluegrass traditionalist.

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Book Interview: “Season of the Witch” — Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Occult Imagination

February 3, 2015
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“To say that the occult ‘saved’ it is really to say that the spiritual agitation is at the heart of what was able to bring rock ‘n’ roll to its most interesting places.”

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Visual Arts Interview: George Fifield — Boston’s Cyberman

February 2, 2015
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George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.

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Arts Interview: Scott Timberg Looks at the “Culture Crash” Square in the Eye

January 13, 2015
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“It’s not depressing to be told that writers and artists are getting screwed. It’s our daily reality.”

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