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Fuse Film Review: “Pride” — A Feel-Good Film About the Union Ties That Bind

October 17, 2014
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Pride is poignant celebration of the power of the human element, a carefully layered tale of solidarity.

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Concert Review: Boston Early Music Festival — Musical Miracle Workers

June 18, 2015
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After experiencing, in seven days, Monteverdi’s three extant operas and his Vespers of 1610, I am in awe of BEMF and everyone associated with it.

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Visual Arts Review: At the Shelburne Museum — Homegrown Moderns

July 19, 2015
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The show is unabashedly American in subject matter and form: Realism is as much an influence as Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the other European –isms.

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Theater Review: “Trick or Treat” — A Domestic Horror Show

January 22, 2017
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A less skilled playwright might have gone for the obvious and focused on mercy-killing and the ravages of Alzheimer’s.

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Toronto Film Festival: “Nuns vs. The Vatican” — Courage, Cover-Ups, and Calls for Accountability

October 10, 2025
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“Nuns vs. The Vatican” prepares its audience for an ongoing story that is expanding each time one more victim agrees to talk publicly. Do not doubt that there will be a sequel.

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Visual Arts Review: A Trio of Shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography

December 22, 2024
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A look at three exhibitions of photography — two of them shine a revealing light on personal and political concerns.

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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: April 2011

January 26, 2011
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April brings lifted spirits, the Together Electronic Music Festival and psychedelia. The Deep Heaven Now Festival features psych, ambient and shoegaze music. The Together Music Festival has a heavy lineup full of dance and electronic music.

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Film Review: Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down — “Hit So Hard”

September 20, 2012
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Musician Patty Schemel’s slow climb to sobriety and wellness serves as the gripping backbone of the documentary “Hit So Hard,” to the point that it is difficult to believe that someone thumped so severely lived to tell her story.

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Film Review: “Shirley” — Domestic Witchcraft

June 5, 2020
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Shirley is hard to watch, hard to resist, and deeply, deliciously haunting.

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Arts Remembrance: Lenny Bruce — On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth

October 13, 2025
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Raise a glass to Lenny Bruce, champion for—and martyr to—Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech. October 13, 2025, is the hundredth anniversary of his birth in Mineola, New York.

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