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London Film Festival, Dispatch #1: Burning Youth

October 11, 2023
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The first of three review round-ups from this year’s London Film Festival’s excellent slate of films.

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Visual Arts Review: “Life Magazine and the Power of Photography” — Some Fake Views?

October 24, 2022
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While impressive, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography disappoints.

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Doc Talk: Two at CineFest Latino Boston — Totaled Recall

September 27, 2023
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What happens when, through unwillingness or incapacity, memory is lost or forsaken? Two documentaries at the CineFest Latino Boston explore some answers.

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Music Remembrance: Ornette Coleman — The Gentle Iconoclast

June 12, 2015
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Ornette Coleman’s music was avant-garde but, perhaps unconsciously, his notion of art as free lyrical adventure was deeply American.

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Arts Remembrance: Poet W. S. Merwin — An Appreciation

March 18, 2019
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W.S. Merwin remained politically as well as artistically motivated all his life, often proclaiming the vital importance of activism.

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Book Review: “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis”

May 10, 2024
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The history of U.S. policy on immigration might charitably be described as shameful.

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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: June 2011

June 2, 2011
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The biggest event this June is the Wilco-curated Solid Sound Festival at the MASS MoCA in North Adams. A couple of these bands will also be playing shows in Boston around the same time as the festival.

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Book Review: “Matisse at War” — The Makings of a Spy Thriller

September 30, 2025
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All in all, this is a crisp, entertaining, and, so far as I can see, an accurate account of the last acts in Henri Matisse’s career.

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Rock Feature: Roger Daltrey of The Who — How Can He Afford to Tour?

September 12, 2019
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If there is any theme that runs throughout the story of Roger Daltrey’s life as he tells it, it’s that he has always needed more money to – as he so folksily puts it – “pay the bills.”

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Music Interview: Dave Stuckey — Rockabilly Hero

September 20, 2017
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Dave Stuckey of the Lucky Stars and the Hukilau Hotshots comes to the New England Shakeup.

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