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Theater Review: “Trouble in Mind” — Taking a Stand Backstage

January 21, 2024
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Set in New York in the mid-’50s, “Trouble in Mind” is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre’s interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.

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Arts Commentary: When It Comes to Concerts, Go Small

April 21, 2025
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An invaluable way to see live music: one that provides funds to artists who really need it and to the smaller venues that not only deserve support but that also drive business in the local community.

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Design Review: “Polinature” — A Plug-in Vertical Garden That Fights Climate Change

October 2, 2024
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Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.

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Film Review: “Don’t Worry Darling” — Land of the Living Dolls

September 19, 2022
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As a satire on the power of male-dominated corporations to manufacture consent and conformity, Don’t Worry Darling is devilishly amusing. Though credibility is not its strong suit.

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Book Review: “Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History” — An Enlightening Learning Experience

September 14, 2022
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A lot of history is jammed into this book, but the author manages to ruminate in an informative and engrossing way on 50-plus years of pop music.

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World Music Album Review: Michael Wimberly’s “Afrofuturism” — Journeying Forward Through Diversity

February 25, 2021
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We need more recordings like this. This is a diverse and imaginative album that draws on a wide range of influences: rap, old-school funk, Afropop, traditional West African music, and R&B jam sessions.

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Book Review: “What Just Happened” — Memorable Thoughts on “A Long Year”

January 27, 2022
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From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.

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Arts Remembrance: Michael Nesmith

December 10, 2021
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With Michael Nesmith’s passing, Boomers of a certain age feel another piece of their youth disappearing.

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Film Review: “Hellbender” — Witches in the Woods

June 1, 2022
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Hellbender is not just a fabulous indie film about witches, it’s also an original coming-of-age horror movie.

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Theater Review: GSC’s “Think of Me Tuesday’ — Local Heroes

October 5, 2021
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Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly rare for Boston area theater companies to produce shows that are as deeply rooted in our local culture as this one.

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