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The surreal world

Dreamworks by Corey Grayhorse at AS220
Corey Grayhorse offers a style of synthetic glitz that seems to channel our society’s plastic, superficial heart.
By GREG COOK | May 20, 2010

Review: The Runaways

Doesn't quite take them back home
The mid 1970s was a time of tight pants and even tighter radio playlists.
By BETSY SHERMAN | April 08, 2010

Traveling down no "No Hidden Path"
If a Neil Young neophyte can find himself rocking in a cinema seat to the spirited, soulful music performed in this second of a rumored triptych of Demme-directed, Young-starring concert documentaries, long-time fans are bound to break their armrests.
By BRETT MICHEL | March 17, 2010

'Herring in a fur coat'

Tasting a Russian party dish
This time of year I look at myself in the mirror and shrink. My face looks like it belongs on the canning shelf with the beans, asparagus, and cukes.
By LINDSAY STERLING | March 10, 2010

Tax dollars at work

Imago hosts the ‘2010 RISCA Fellowship Exhibit’
The standout piece in the "2010 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition" is Alison Owen's hand-drawn wallpaper installation.
By GREG COOK | February 10, 2010

Magpie and copyist

Iris Apfel at PEM, Mary McFadden at MassArt
If you were going to recount the evolution of hippie guy fashion, you might say that what began with psychedelic ruffled shirts and corduroy pants in 1968 has in late middle age split into two streams: collarless white button-down shirts, usually buttoned right up to the neck and worn with a black vest, and Hawaiian shirts.
By GREG COOK | November 24, 2009

The digerarti

‘Pixilerations’ plugs in Providence art
Strapped into Erik Conrad’s electronic vest, I stood waiting for the personal digital assistant, attached by a wire to the outfit, to make a GPS connection.
By GREG COOK | October 02, 2009

Review: The Walkmen at Middle East

The Walkmen, live at Middle East downstairs on September 18, 2009
It was strange to see the sparse instrumentation from which NYC’s The Walkmen drew their atmospheric, honey-dipped sound last Friday at the Middle East.
By DAVID BOFFA | September 23, 2009

Victorian jewel

A fictional setting that never fades
What price beauty? That's the question lovely Grace Hammer has to answer as her world begins to fall apart.
By CLEA SIMON | September 09, 2009

Back-to-school supplies

What you won't find on your syllabus
After a summer that started with a monsoon and coasted into its final lap with a heat wave, when we talked about Wilco, celebrity deaths, and Shakespeare in the park, when we feared tasers and crime sprees, and we consumed Mexican food and ice cream, we're ready to make the transition into fall.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 26, 2009

Musical power

MSMT's lively Drowsy Chaperone
The Man in the Chair (Charles Abbott) is a man of a certain age who wears both a sweater vest and a cardigan, feels pangs of a "non-specific sadness," and harbors an abiding nostalgia for the musical theater of yesteryear.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 19, 2009

Review: Big Meat Hammer at Geno's Rock Club

Music Seen
On my way to the club, I walked hunched in the drizzle behind a fellow in a leather jacket with white paint on the back: "Punks not dead." I pondered this idea and assumed we were heading to the same place, only to watch him pass by Geno's without a glance.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | July 01, 2009

The Big Hurt: Durst pantsed, Michaels smooshed

Music news in brief
"This isn't a reunion, this is a comeback," quibbled the red-hatted irrelephant in a BBC interview.
By DAVID THORPE | June 23, 2009

Tiga | Ciao!

Last Gang (2009)
This Montreal-based electro-house dude made his name with slyly straight-faced covers of Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night," and on his second studio disc, he doesn't appear hugely concerned that his original material should sound all that original.
By MIKAEL WOOD | June 15, 2009

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