ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST
An interview with Ibram X. Kendi DigBoston sat down with Ibram X. Kendi, the author of Stamped from the Beginning, to discuss his new book, How to Be an Antiracist, ahead of his talk at Brookline Booksmith, Aug 28, at 6 pm. How to Be an Antiracist serves not only as […]
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? FIRST LADY
FILM REVIEW: “SMITHEREENS” AND “HER SMELL” AT THE BRATTLE
Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens (1982) and Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell (2019), which play back-to-back at the Brattle Theatre next week (Aug. 15) as a punk rock double feature, are films made in completely different keys. One, Smithereens, is a snapshot of a 1980s New York City that no longer exists, captured in its gritty, natural […]
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? QBERT
THE STRAW THAT STIRS THE DRINK: A CHAT WITH SONJA MORGAN
For nearly 10 years, Sonja Morgan has been the heart, soul, and comic relief of The Real Housewives of New York City, which just wrapped up its 11th season on Bravo. For two nights this weekend (one in Beverly, one in Barnstable) she’ll be joined by Teresa Giudice and Margaret Josephs of The Real […]
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? SILICA
FOTOBOM: NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL
The times, they are a changin’. That was true in 1964 and it still rings true today, but sometimes the pace can seem glacial… as long as the tangerine menace is occupying the Oval Office, the clock hands regarding the progress of basic human rights appear to have been dialed back a few centuries. […]
INTERVIEW: TRACY HUERTA (‘FACE VALUE: ART, MAKEUP & IDENTITY’ PREVIEW)
“All anti-oppressive and liberating issues are important to me, but I concern myself mostly with black and brown liberation, queer and trans liberation, anticapitalist redistribution of resources, and global warming.”
NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE BELIEVED: CYMBELINE SPUTTERS ON THE BOSTON COMMON
★★☆☆☆ Confusing. Haphazard. Far-Fetched. Convoluted. For centuries, such words have been used repeatedly to describe Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s rarely staged late tragicomedy that is being performed on the Boston Common by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company through Aug 4. George Bernard Shaw even famously called it “stagy trash.” Trash, I’m not sure, but it […]
