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Arts Remembrance: Architect Zaha Hadid — a Sci-Fi Design Diva — Dies At 65

April 12, 2016
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Zaha Hadid’s futuristic designs will shape the imagination of generations to come.

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Film Review: “Certain Women” — Mysteries of the Ordinary

October 30, 2016
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Kelly Reichardt’s cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life’s daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.

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Film Review: “Do Not Split” — A Compelling, Disturbing, and Imperfect Look at the Hong Kong Riots

March 1, 2021
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Is Do Not Split a fine example of provocative filmmaking? Yes. Should you watch it? Certainly. Will it help you understand the forces feeding the discontent and shaping the discourse generated by the conflict? Not really.

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Book Review: “Call Me Cassandra” — The Beauty of Fait Accompli

January 28, 2022
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You know how the story is going to end, but it can only unfold if you take Cassandra’s hand and follow where she knows to go. Believe that she knows the way.

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Music Album Review: “Dawn FM” — Pop Programming for a Lonely, Postapocalyptic Afterlife

January 22, 2022
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This album is a remarkably mature effort. The Weeknd reflects on his long career while expanding on his earlier accomplishments.

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Classical Album Review: A Treasure Trove of Saxophone Music Lost, Forgotten, and of Our Time

October 1, 2021
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Major works for saxophone in world-premiere recordings featuring virtuoso Paul Cohen and his brilliant colleagues.

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Opera Preview: Boston Lyric Opera Revamps Philip Glass’s “Fall of the House of Usher” for Today

January 16, 2021
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How do you make filmed opera relevant in the Age of COVID? The BLO isolated the performers from one another and made E.A. Poe’s story the dream of an immigrant child in detention on the US/Mexico border.

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Book Review: “Work Pray Code” — Managing and Deploying Spirituality in Silicon Valley

April 11, 2022
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A thorough sociologist, Carolyn Chen shows, step-by-step, how companies self-consciously appropriate religious language and rituals, creating a ‘theology’ in which work and purpose are perfectly aligned in the lives of their highest-value employees.

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Music Album Review: Lomelda’s “Hannah” — A Wonderful Tenderness

September 16, 2020
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The intimate emotions captured by Hannah are enhanced by Lomelda’s ability to be both revelatory and inscrutable in the same breath.

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Podcast Review: Ode to “36 From the Vault”: My COVID-19 Escape

May 15, 2020
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Who wants timely now? I sure as hell don’t. I want an escape and a podcast dedicated to the Grateful Dead’s live career is easy to get blissfully lost in.

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