The renovation of the North Bennet Street School now brings together all of its educational and administrative programs into a single facility with expansive floor space and natural lighting.
People complain about how no one takes literature seriously these days. Tell that to the millions of people who are participating in Bloomsday celebrations worldwide today.
Even by Widespread Panic's intuitive standards, this was a fairly challenging show: The setlist seemed to favor their deeper, less outgoing material.
I love Saturday Night Live as much as the next guy, but as far as I'm concerned Kids In The Hall did much more with much less than Lorne Michael's comedy fiefdom.
The challenging viola part takes prominence in Shostakovich's String Quartet no. 13, highlighting an essential yet oft-unsung voice of a string quartet.
A Sentimental Novel, which seems to be at once pornography and a parody of pornography, is designed to provoke both revulsion and titillation.
Retired Associate Justice John Paul Stevens' book Six Amendments is unlikely to restore any of the love lost between him and the GOP.
Even by the standards of prog shows, which only get close to mainstream if a Yes or Rush is headlining, these bands were largely from the underground.
At times, David Thomson's movie criticism resembles the approach of old-school British critics (the Walter Pater or John Ruskin variety) who didn't mind occasionally cutting loose from being…
The reason these films are in this series is because of their color, and they do not disappoint.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against ugliness. -- the late Massimo Vignelli
Bay Staters, be warned - we are living in a state without an official rock song. Luckily, if we pitch in, we can help the government solve this problem.
At the core of Philip Levine's poetry one hears the rhythms and the pulses of working people, smells their sweat, feels their heartaches.
German architect Hans Scharoun's compelling story, as both a man and an artist navigating perilous times, has been neglected (aside from architectural historians and seriously informed stude…
It's sort of like someone snatching the epic novel you're a few chapters from the end of out of your hands and subsequently run off cackling into the sunset, only to allow you to finish it i…
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that's coming up in the next week. By The Arts Fuse Staff Dance The Legacy of Joe Gifford M…
Coldplay's "Ghost Stories" is not a fun or happy listen, but it is a worthwhile one.
Michael Nesmith's proto-Americana songs had aged the least"listen to the jangly guitar and stream-of-conscious lyric on "Tapioca Tundra" and you'd swear that was where R.E.M. got the idea.
The tunes on Joey Pizza Slice's new LP are personal enough to leave many listeners scratching their heads, asking "Is this guy for real?"
Boston's MFA should be congratulated for screening these Technicolor musicals in way that does wondrous justice to their eye-popping colors.
Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that's coming up in the next week.
The idea of having glittery, Bettie Page-y young women clad in leather and thongs undulate to music by Tom Waits in any context is pretty much guaranteed to work.
Though Barry Gibb performed most of his life with the Bee Gees, he was surprisingly un-slick as a showman.