NEWS
A BIPARTISAN BLITZ, AT HOME AND ON THE ROAD
While they’re in Washington, they ought to give members of both national parties a lesson on public relations, because this bipartisan buddy bit they’re milking in Boston has everyone from lawmakers to dealmakers applauding while everyone else either smiles and nods or pays no attention at all.
LIFESTYLE
BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU: CONEHEAD IPA
It’s as simple as it’s perfect, and as a result easy to drink in large quantities—not in the same sense that makes Silver Bullets preferable for pounding, but rather in a way that the precision-focused Citra hops and light complexion make for something that won’t interrupt your dinner should your friend show up late and you end up sipping a few Coneheads before mealtime.
MUSIC
PARTY LIKE IT’S 1775
Handel & Haydn Society play Mozart and Haydn this weekend Walk into most music shops and the violins hanging on the wall will be strung with steel strings. The highest string on the violin (the E) is particularly prone to sounding metallic when improperly played (think horror-film screech.) Back in Mozart’s day, though, […]
ARTS
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE IS READY TO BE SURPRISED: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINE EBERSOLE
Christine Ebersole was driving to White Plains, New York, when she called me. The two-time Tony Winner (42nd Street and Grey Gardens), best known for her work in musical theater, has been busy organizing concerts and cabaret engagements, like the ones she’ll be performing this weekend with the Huntington Theatre Company. Hosted by noted […]
WHY GATEHOUSE’S BOSTON ‘MEGACLUSTER’ IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY
No corporation should own most newspapers in a region In last week’s Apparent Horizon, “GateHouse Editorial Flacks for Mass Retailers,” I dissected an editorial, “The benefits of a teen minimum wage,” calling for a subminimum wage for Bay State teenage workers that turned out to have run in over two dozen eastern Mass […]
STILL FRIENDLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Boston’s Villa México and why hospitality still matters
THE WOLVES SCORE BIG AT LYRIC STAGE
★★★★★ “Maybe we shouldn’t use the B-word?” The ways a group of teenage girls treat each other is often at the forefront of The Wolves. In the Lyric Stage production of Sarah DeLappe’s one-act play about a girl’s indoor soccer team, they often argue about what they like and don’t like being […]
DIG THIS: NEKO CASE, STEVE GUNN, JON SPENCER
THUR 1.24 Neko Case @ Royale Neko last hit town for two shows in early summer as support for Ray LaMontagne, but now the New England-transplant has scheduled her own proper headlining tour, and will get a bit more room to stretch out over the material of her excellent new record. If you […]
