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Concert Review: Farm Aid 2020 — The Promise of the Real

September 29, 2020
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When Willie dove into “On the Road Again” to close the set, singing of “making music with my friends,” one could envision the same hopes for Farm Aid to resume its annual trek to an amphitheater somewhere in America and stoke the communal cause.

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Coming Attactions in Theater: July 2010

June 28, 2010
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Underneath the discouraging array of customary exhibitions there are some reassuring productions of the new this month, with a smattering of New England and world premieres. Culture Vulture thinks that Richard III will be a highlight at Shakespeare & Co; I am also intrigued by Company One drawing on local playwrights to revamp the tales…

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Film Interview: Foster Hirsch on “Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King”

November 4, 2021
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“I’m hoping people will revisit Otto Preminger’s movies because he made some of the best films ever made in America.”

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Fuse Book Commentary: Found in Translation — Out in the ‘Burbs

February 21, 2015
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Every writer fantasizes about passionate readers. These were as passionate as they come.

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Video Game Commentary: PAX East 2019 — Day One

May 25, 2019
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My first day at this year’s PAX East was generally disappointing, though there was some enjoyment to be had.

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Theater Review: “The Shepherds’ Singularity”—Time Travel Meets Christmas

December 10, 2015
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The Shepherds’ Singularity‘s playful combination of science fiction and invention will surely incite thoughtful questioning and genuine wonder.

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New Art in Old Buildings

February 5, 2007
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By Peter Walsh When a new contemporary art museum gets up on its feet, it typically constructs a slick, fashionable new address for itself and leaves its old, recycled quarters like a student couch at the curb. But is that always a wise decision? Sometimes it makes sense to put new wine in old bottles.…

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Film Review: “The Wolfpack” — Saved by the Movies

June 19, 2015
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This documentary explores the lives of 6 movie-crazed, teenage brothers who grew up locked away in a NYC housing project.

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Theater Review: “John Proctor Is the Villain ” — Critiquing a Classic

March 6, 2024
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The energizing force of this production comes from the students and, more specifically, the cohort of young women in the cast, each of whom is excellent.

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Culture Vulture: Tracking the Transcendentalists

May 25, 2010
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There are dozens of excellent books about the Alcotts, Emersons, Thoreau, and Hawthorne but reading them can’t beat actually walking through the places where the people actually lived. By Helen Epstein “We are all going to be made perfect,” wrote ten-year-old Louisa May Alcott in June of 1843, “This day we left Concord in the…

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