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Given the pain they endured, it is admirable just how strong many of the Menudo members are.
Read MoreOver five extended compositions, composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith leads a new large ensemble, TUMO, creating a challenging but engaging world of sound that combines composed elements with strong soloists and group improvisation.
Read MoreSue Yang’s eclectic solo exhibition explores the intersections of her multicultural identity through digital and organic art — each medium represents a different facet of the artist’s contemplative selfhood.
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In Frozen Charlotte, Susan de Sola provides readers with enough aesthetic pleasure and thoughtful commentary about today’s world to remind us of just how good — and necessary — poetry can be.
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It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.
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What elevates these ordinary lives is director Kent Jones’s elegiac distance; the narrative has the feel of a memory piece.
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Not Medea is a stirring character portrait, a detailed examination of the ruthless demands society makes — and has always made — on women.
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It is, clearly, a crafty Beethoven remix and the ways John Adams assimilates the older composer’s language into his latest style are fascinating.
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Book Commentary: The Scam of Mobster Memoirs
Crime memoirs about Irish mobster Whitey Bulger have become a corrupt and pathetic cottage industry. By Jay Atkinson A large, jowly, humorless man of 49, Kevin Weeks, the one-time go-fer and strong arm for the notorious Boston crime boss, James Whitey Bulger, hurt and maimed people for a living. While his boss ran most of…
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