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Concert Preview: The Dresden Dolls Return — Letting Out a Primal Scream

October 28, 2024
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“We want everyone to come and let out a primal scream,” said Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls.

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Theater Review: “Nassim” — Word Play

October 11, 2024
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The script is an experiment, a (sometimes) witty lecture on language. But it doesn’t work dramatically.

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Film Review: “Conclave” — Autumn of the Patriarchy

October 23, 2024
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Calling out papal bull in the twisty, provocative, and subversive “Conclave”.

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Television Review: “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” — A Nicholas Sparks Take on the Holocaust

May 8, 2024
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What are we supposed to feel as we are pulled from horror to melodrama to comedy?

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Film Review: “The Soccer Football Movie” — A Full-On Weirdo Camp Fest

November 21, 2022
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Sometimes, cartoons should just be aimed at kids. The Soccer Football Movie has no pretensions: this is a glorious goof fest that draws on the hallowed tradition of slapstick comedy.

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Poetry Review: “Unrevolutionary Times” — Try Men’s Souls?

November 10, 2022
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In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.

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Concert Review: Puscifer in Boston — Out of This World

June 30, 2022
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Puscifer pulled off a great show of rock ’n’ roll farce, and that is saying something considering that the daily news feels ever more like scripted buffoonery.

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Concert Review: Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye — A Very Modern Organ Trio

June 12, 2023
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At New Hampshire’s just-christened Nashua Center for the Arts, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Pat Metheny shared a wily sidelong glance at his own broad compositional and improvisational history.

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Concert Review: The Emerson String Quartet — A Note of Sadness

December 4, 2012
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The Emerson String Quartet gave its all – beauty, power, fire – in Johannes Brahms’s String Quartet in A minor, Opus 51, no. 2.

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Television Review: Christopher Guest’s Humble “Family Tree”

May 16, 2013
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The only way to sort of enjoy “Family Tree” is with modest expectations; and indeed, this is the most modest of series, as Christopher Guest cuts his molars on TV with a program which rarely tries to be more than fairly amusing, mildly ambitious, a kind of bemused apprentice work in a new medium.

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