If Patrizia Cavalli's poetry is egocentric, even probably autobiographical, its narrator shows a detachment enabling her to observe herself from one remove, even when she describes herself i…
The obvious question is how can such a sprawling free festival " and the nightly fireworks shop that capped two of the nights " happen in such a cash-strapped city?
Lousy with Sylvianbriar proves that of Montreal is still fully capable of crafting catchy and rollicking rock songs when it wants to.
George Scialabba is still outfoxing the professional eggheads in For the Republic, his third collection of essays on political and cultural topics.
While it has its highlights, The Family limits our frame of reference to other movies, rather than anything resembling real life.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that's coming up this week.
Many artistically inclined people would probably cite Frida Kahlo or Diego Rivera as the region's representative artists. That is a shame, because the breath of contemporary Latin American v…
Hilary Holladay's biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored. American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square…
While luminary thespians and film stars such as Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer have trod the Stratford Festival boards, let me sing the praises of two actresses: Martha Henry and Mich…
AM, the Sheffield band's fifth album and their heaviest and danciest to date, isn't for pre-gaming, or the start of the party. It's for the wee hours, when the fog is thickest and you should…
Reviews of the latest music from Dean Blunt, Aaron Dilloway, Ulver, Perhaps, Wormlust, and Syndrome.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music, and theater that's coming up this week.
Leon Fleisher was part of an outburst of great North American pianists. Many were ill-fated, but, as this commanding box set proves, Fleisher stayed the course.
The pleasure of Talley's Folly is in its details, the give-and-take of the dialogue, the smaller and larger revelations they tease out of each other, the characterization of the two human cr…
I fully support the themes that Peggy Shinn explores, articulated in Deluge's subtitle: this one small state did save itself.
"A great novel makes for the best script an actor could imagine," said actor Colin Firth recently, on accepting an award for his reading of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. Many theate…
Satoko Fujii's quartet could go from 0 to 100 at the drop of a hat, but only once in a while, and nearly always at the perfect time.
In Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor foregoes trendy flourishes. He might have delivered a set of competently-made, stripped-back industrial tunes. But the end result is monoto…
Jessie Reijonen's eclectic and spacious approach to jazz is a deliberate attempt to investigate, not necessarily fuse, his disparate roots.
The documentary was originally screened at South by Southwest in 2010 while Levon Helm was still alive, but with his death from cancer in 2012, the film now serves as a heartfelt tribute to …
Pianist Marc Cary came to Sculler's to play the neglected compositions of celebrated singer Abbey Lincoln.
Lindsay Lohan's prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music and theater that's coming up this week.
An evening that showed yet again how pop (even "modern" pop) can serve as nourishment for new jazz.
Apparently, an agency like the MBTA can simply take a wrecking ball to pieces of public art such as "Omphalos" when their existence becomes an encumbrance. No questions asked.