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Visual Arts Review: Flowers as the Work Table for the Imagination

November 5, 2011
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Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?

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Movie Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — Neighbors Near and Far

November 5, 2011
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Congratulations to the Boston Jewish Film Festival are certainly due to its longevity and general quality.

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Theater Review: Ibsen’s DollHouse — Deconstructed

November 3, 2011
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Entertaining and provocative, this quick-witted and dreamlike evening of theater suggests that imbalances of power sacrifice individual freedoms and love. Everyone becomes a doll (master and servant) in a doll society.

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Theater Review: A Delightfully Daffy “Divine Sister”

November 2, 2011
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Charles Busch’s plays are informed by an obsession to playfully upend iconic film genres. This time it’s the celluloid celebration of nuns, and what a divine romp it is.

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Concert Review: Lang Lang at Symphony Hall

November 1, 2011
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After intermission, Mr. Lang closed the concert with Frederic Chopin’s Twelve Etudes (Op. 25). This is music in which Mr. Lang is completely in his element, and his performance of these fearsomely difficult pieces was a marvel of extraordinary technical skill.

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Music Interview: Dogs, Sheep, Pigs, and Kangaroos with The Australian Pink Floyd Show’s Jason Sawford

November 1, 2011
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Not only is TAPFS considered the best Pink Floyd tribute band, but it is argued that they are the best cover band in the world.

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Book Review: Brilliant “Shards”

November 1, 2011
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In this novel, author Ismet Prcic’s confusion is so vivid that it becomes ours, making us participants in the story.

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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: November 2011

October 30, 2011
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There isn’t much going on in November. The highlights of the month are the Omar Souleyman and Felix Kubin shows, so try to make it to one of those.

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Caldwell Titcomb, Theater and Music Critic — Words of Remembrance

October 30, 2011
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There was a memorial service for Caldwell Titcomb, invaluable friend of the arts in New England, yesterday in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He passed away on June 12th of leukemia at the age of 84. The ceremony was moving and heartfelt, with memories shared about Caldwell as a friend, composer, critic, grammarian, teacher, brother, long-time President of the Elliot Norton Awards, and researcher in African-American history.

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Short Fuse Book Review: Admiring “The Submission”

October 30, 2011
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“The Submission” has been compared to Richard Price’s richly evocative novels of New York life. It’s an apt comparison, though Amy Waldman brings a new cast of characters to bear, members of the Bangladeshi community.

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