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Who's afraid of Memoryhouse?

Ontario dream-pop duo find inspiration in the library stacks
Sifting through music discs for literary references can often bear scant fruit.
By LUKE O'NEIL | August 08, 2010

Rhode Island’s First Family of Poetry

Words, Words, Words
Husband and wife Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop will be giving a reading at the Providence Central Library, on Washington Street, on Sunday, April 11 at 2 pm. That’s no small matter for poetry lovers.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 08, 2010

Two turtle doves

Sometimes the best gifts come in pairs
Like a mug of hot cocoa after an afternoon of sledding, sometimes a good Christmas gift isn't quite complete without a second one that enhances the pleasures of the first.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | December 09, 2009

Review: Fig Trees

Strikes a delicate balance among solemnity, wry humor, and rage
Here's a first: an AIDS documentary nested inside an opera that's obsessed with albino squirrels, figs, palindromes, and Pythagoras.
By SHAULA CLARK | May 06, 2009

Play by play: April 3, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2009

Play by Play: March 27, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 24, 2009

Play by Play: March 20, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 18, 2009

Interview: Art Spiegelman

Drawing conclusions
"When you don't understand a painting, you assume you're stupid. When you don't understand a cartoon, you assume the cartoonist is stupid."
By MIKE MILIARD | November 13, 2008

Day by day

A new film examines Marsden Hartley’s life
Everyone has their own Marsden Hartley. That happens with great painters, and Hartley was one of the greatest of 20th-century American artists.
By KEN GREENLEAF | October 29, 2008

Easy to love

According to Tip debuts at New Rep; the ART sings Cole Porter
Given the water wings of a viable performance, one-person shows about historical figures tend to sink or swim on the raconteurship of their subjects.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 01, 2008

Senses come alive

Did art prove science before science did?
Are Jay-Z’s synapses wired to express supreme confidence?
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | February 13, 2008

Life lines

Getting to the hard core of Big Bear
Scaring people away isn’t Big Bear’s primary objective.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | February 12, 2008

Beyond illbient

DJ Spooky goes global
When I get DJ Spooky on the phone a week ago Tuesday, he’s fresh home in New York City from Antarctica.
By JON GARELICK | January 14, 2008

Sweet fallout

Philip Whalen’s word bombs
Philip Whalen (1923–2002) is a great American poet.
By WILLIAM CORBETT | January 14, 2008

War, peace, and Robert Pinsky

The season's fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
Every few years, a fall publishing season emerges that should remind us that Boston could be the literary epicenter of America.
By JOHN FREEMAN | September 12, 2007

Empty pantsuit

There's a reason why two new biographies of Hillary Clinton elicit such yawns
I have a terrible confession to make: I couldn’t get through either of the two new biographical tomes about Hillary Clinton.
By STEVEN STARK | June 22, 2007

Unmasked

Boston Lyric Opera’s Un ballo in maschera ; Scott Wheeler’s The Construction of Boston
It would be fun to report that in the same weekend Bostonians got to hear two operas from two different centuries that take place on their home turf.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | April 05, 2007

The conspiracist

Gay-rights crusader Paul Kuntzler turns a sharp mind for detail to the JFK assassination
“Assassination-conspiracy theorist” is a relatively recent addition to Paul Kuntzler’s résumé. Watch Paul Kuntzler on the JFK assassination
By MIKE MILIARD | January 11, 2007