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Concert and Album Review: Fernando Huergo Big Band, “Relentless”

October 5, 2024
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If Fernando Huergo’s band of A-list Boston players sounded especially inspired, it was certainly in no small part due to what he was giving them to play.

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Design Commentary: The Look of the Olympic Games — Paris 2024

July 27, 2024
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Tastefully colorful and aesthetically pleasing, stylish as well as minimalist, modern yet richly symbolic, the Look of the Paris  2024 Olympic Games got many things right and a few wrong.

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Book Review: Singer, Songwriter, and Guitarist Robyn Hitchcock — A Man Who Never Left the ’60s

June 25, 2024
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This unconventional memoir suggests that music can do more than just change ideas or beliefs — it can transform minds, overhaul brains.

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Book Review: “Harvard Square: A Love Story” — Passion Collides with the Logic of the Market

April 11, 2023
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We are understandably upset when market forces threaten the things we consider to be sacred.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Red Rose” is Teen Social Media Horror

March 9, 2023
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Technology-driven horror narratives are ubiquitous these days: Red Rose has an authentic look that makes its creepiness distressingly plausible.

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Design Commentary: Department of Play — Creating a New Urban Planning Paradigm

May 27, 2023
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Participatory, small-scale planning is a powerful step forward because it doesn’t pay lip service to cliches about “listening to the community.”

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Film Review: “The Great Postal Heist” — Clear and Present Danger to a Great American Institution

January 31, 2022
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This effective advocacy documentary charts the 21st-century decline of a great American institution (one established in the U.S. Constitution). It’s also a wake-up call alerting us that things didn’t have to happen this way.

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Rap Album Review: “Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine” — The Art of Musical Diversity

July 18, 2021
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Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine is Brockhampton’s tightest album to date.

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Film Review: “Women Talking” — The Sound of the World on Fire

December 26, 2022
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The film’s trajectory is one of acknowledgement, empowerment and, ultimately, redemption. Women Talking gives voice to what is often unexpressed: it is a clamorous call to be silent no more.

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Rock Album Review: “Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson” — A Summery Pleasure

August 11, 2022
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I applaud She & Him’s selection of Brian Wilson tunes while at the same time feeling that some are not well-suited to their loungey, languid pop stylings.

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