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Film Interview: Director Nancy Savoca on “Household Saints”

January 3, 2024
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In the spirit of revisiting this unsung indie classic, here’s an interview the critic did with director Nancy Savoca in 1993, when Household Saints was part of the Boston Film Festival.

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Electronic Music Review: Macroblank’s ANALOG レアリティ– Plenty of Scarcity to Go Around

January 5, 2023
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A commentator on Macroblank’s Bandcamp page makes this telling assertion: “AI is Macroblank. Macroblank is AI.”

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Fuse Feature: Vertical and Contingent — A Dispatch from William Kentridge’s Norton Lectures

April 6, 2012
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The decisions William Kentridge makes in his minute to-ings and fro-ings are akin to the decisions a poet makes as she works her measure over and over again.

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Theater Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company Delights with “Significant Other”

September 21, 2016
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From Significant Other’s opening moments, it is clear that this smart and heartfelt script is in very capable hands.

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Arts Commentary: The Oscars 2022 — No Longer So White, But Still Not So Hot

March 29, 2022
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It was soon clear what Oscar was after: two separate younger demographics — one with plebeian cinematic tastes, the other with hip politics.

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Rock Concert Review: Queen + Adam Lambert — Close to the Real Thing

August 7, 2019
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Now more than ever, “the people,” of all ages, want Queen. How lucky we are that Lambert, May, and Taylor are willing and able to deliver.

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Literary Homage: John Berger’s Masterpiece, “A Painter of Our Time”

February 11, 2017
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A Painter of Our Time is a gorgeous rumination on art, love, sexuality, revolution, capitalism, exile, propaganda, politics, human nature, and society.

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TV Commentary: A Little Real Talk about “Real Time”

July 14, 2017
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Bill Maher’s once robust contrarian streak has shriveled over time.

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Music Remembrance: Don Everly (1937-2021)

August 29, 2021
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The Everly Brothers’ close harmony work was so sinuous it sometimes seemed close to witchcraft.

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Book Review: “The Last Utopians” — Visions for Tomorrow?

May 22, 2018
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Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?

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