Search Results: homes

Classical Music Feature: “Best of 2022” — Unusual Operas Plus Some Songs, Choral, and Instrumental CDs

December 8, 2022
Posted in , ,

Here’s my list of two dozen superlative operatic offerings of wildly differing kinds, plus some notable non-operatic offerings.

Film Review: “No Bears” — An Iranian Director’s Muted Act of Subversion

February 8, 2023
Posted in , ,

Rather than coming across as angry or urgent, Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s No Bears feels muted, perhaps even subdued to the point of depression.

Concert Review: The Boston Celtic Music Festival — A Rousing Break From Winter

January 13, 2014
Posted in , ,

The music was loud, the dancers laughing and sweating and clearly happy to be liberated from their cabin-fever inducing confines to let loose and have some fun.

Film Review: Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” — A Film of Skill and Passion

November 14, 2014
Posted in , ,

Rosewater is a movie for the idealists, with the implied hope that a principled and conscientious mass media can give the new breed of technologically savvy activists a louder voice.

Fuse Theater Review: “Blinders” — Choppy Political Satire

June 23, 2016
Posted in , ,

Patrick Gabridge’s political satire presents some intriguing sci-fi-like concepts, but the play falls into too many narrative potholes.

Film Review: “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” — Definitive Documentary on Folk Horror

March 20, 2021
Posted in , ,

There’s no question in my mind that Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched will remain the definitive work on the history of folk horror for many years to come.

Theater Review: “Wild Horses” — Musical Adventures

September 30, 2021
Posted in , ,

Wild Horses is a sort of hybrid of familiar coming-of-age stories: Little Women meets Summer of ’42, with a dollop of Stand By Me tossed in for intrigue.

Theater Review: “Admissions” — The Frustrations of the Privileged

November 7, 2019
Posted in , ,

Admissions is a successful comedy, but not quite the hot, scathing satire of ‘privileged whiteness’ one might gather from the ads. (Or from some of the local reviews.)

Book Review: “Experiments with Empire” — Ways to Re-envision the World

October 28, 2019
Posted in , ,

Experiments With Empire makes some perceptive points about how the connections between ethnology and fiction can help us re-imagine the world.

Book Review: “The Sovereign” — Anarchy in Puerto Rico

July 11, 2017
Posted in , ,

Given the country’s current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives