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Film Review: “Cold Water” — An Early Masterpiece from Olivier Assayas

August 4, 2018
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A prescient work that introduces themes and imagery (particularly youth, nostalgia and urban angst) that have become central to Olivier Assayas’ oeuvre.

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Jazz Preview: The Scene Lives! — Local Jazz in the Months to Come

September 27, 2022
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Get out there and hear some live music. It’s the best gift you can give to your ears.

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Film Review: “True Story” — A Failed Whodunit

April 22, 2015
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True Story relies far too heavily on answering the formulaic question ‘Did he do it?’

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Theater Review: Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” — Brought Memorably to Life on Stage

July 23, 2013
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The agile hand of adaptor and director Aaron Posner has given us a production of Chaim Potok’s novel “The Chosen” that our children and grandchildren must see.

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Album Review: Tame Impala’s “The Slow Rush” — Inspired by the Passage of Time

March 13, 2020
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At its best, The Slow Rush features catchy, energetic, and danceable tracks at the service of lyrical ruminations on dark topics, such as uncertainty and the inevitable passage of time.

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Theater Interview: Actor Marc Labrèche — On Robert Lepage’s “Needles and Opium”

March 30, 2015
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“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”

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Book Review: “Unterstadt” — A Nightmare Journey Into ‘The Lower City’

August 14, 2024
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“Unterstadt” is valuable, and not only because it memorably excavates a repressed episode in Croatian history. The novel also has considerable relevance, given the savagery besieging the innocent in today’s conflagrations.

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Short Fuse: The Art of Chess in Chinatown Park

August 13, 2008
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By Harvey Blume Whether you are seriously hooked on chess or casually intrigued by it, you probably think of the tables in Cambridge’s Holyoke Center as the Boston area’s one big outdoor chess venue. That’s, after all, where the Chess Master sets out his board a few tables down from his counterpart, the redoubtable Chess…

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Fuse Preview: Grand Harmonie’s Brass Menagerie

May 23, 2016
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This Grand Harmonie program is a survey of both the mainstream and wildly experimental uses of early brass instruments.

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Fuse Interview: The Creative Faith of Damien Jurado

January 20, 2014
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“With this new record, we said we were going to use every influence I have, we’re basically going to rip the brakes out of the car and just push this thing down the hill.”

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