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Cultural Commentary: “Dogefather” Elon Musk on SNL – Banking on the Irony of the Rich

May 9, 2021
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“Fate loves irony” opines the billionaire. Will we be in on the joke, or left out in the cold?

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Concert Review: Ticket to Park — Johnny A Plays the British Invasion Songbook at the Tupelo Drive-In

June 16, 2020
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A by-the-carload ticket gets you a spot in the Tupelo Music Hall parking lot and an empty space next to it.

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Film Review: “The Favourite” — Hysterical History

November 21, 2018
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The Favourite may be a raucous historical lampoon — but it is a timely one.

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Film Preview: At Somerville Theatre — Fake Bands, Real Good Movies

April 11, 2019
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Most of the films selected will be shown in 35mm, making the visual experience as invigorating to watch as the music will be to listen to.

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Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart and Bruckner

April 18, 2017
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Mitsuko Uchida is quite possibly the finest Mozart pianist around today, at least among non-period specialists.

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Book Review: “His Only Son” — A Delightful Discovery from Turn-of-the-Century Spain

December 1, 2016
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A splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.

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Theater Review: Bravo! Hershey Felder in “Maestro: Leonard Bernstein (A Play With Music)”

May 1, 2012
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Directed ably by Joel Zwick, a long-time collaborator of Hershey Felder’s, the excellent Maestro: Leonard Bernstein includes the performer singing, playing the piano, and conducting as well as telling stories.

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“The Bad Backwards Walking” — A Dispatch from William Kentridge’s Fourth Norton Lecture

April 12, 2012
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William Kentridge spoke of the value of using a mirror to re-learn what he already knew how to do; the clear implication was that we are daily surrounded by mirror-images that we do not see for themselves but that hold the potential to alter our relationships to our tools and to our visions.

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Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”

October 1, 2018
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To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.

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Film Review: The Complete Jean Renoir — Time for a Fascinating Experiment

July 19, 2017
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The Testament of Dr. Cordelier is not a horror movie –it is more of a dark comedy.

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