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A rare Black female instrumentalist band leader, whose improvisations on the harp were the equal of any horn, Dorothy Ashby deserves a respected place in jazz historiography.
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Wildly imperfect but intriguingly ambiguous, the film’s flaws and contradictions are a virtue because its purported saintly hero is so hard to pin down.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Like Thin Lizzy, Minx marries metallic thunder with melodic structures and lyrics worth listening to.
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This week’s poem: Askold Melnyczuk’s “Prayer of Origin.”
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Boston Calling reached some highs this year, sealed by perfect weather.
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What made Barry such a hit was that it was deliciously funny; the laughs were a balm for the uneasiness viewers felt as the body count rose from episode to episode.
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So why am I going to write about the Nuggets concert for a New England outlet? Because, totally surprising to me, there was a lot of Boston in the show.
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This is an album of top-notch orchestral playing. Yet the real star is Karina Canellakis.
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In place of coherent, in-depth analysis, the author has provided us with a series of short profiles on various individuals, some of them familiar, others less so. The tack presents problems that can’t be overcome.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025