Johnny Roselli was one of two top gangsters recruited by the CIA to try and kill Fidel Castro. But Roselli had a life-long secret that this bold assassination plot threatened to reveal.
ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? COFFEE
BOSTON’S FIRST BUTOH FESTIVAL: APRIL 19-21
Explore the archetype of the witch from its ancient history to its influence on contemporary feminism and girl culture Boston is about to host its first ever Butoh festival. It’s a small festival this year—only one weekend’s worth of programming—but a good introduction to Butoh for those who are unfamiliar. Which is almost […]
ANJAN BISWAS AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF COMEDY AND PUZZLES
“A large chunk of escape room clientele is corporate team building, so every day I meet people my age with mortgages and 401Ks while my coworkers and I bonk each other on the head with plastic swords and talk about weird online sex communities.”
CAN’T KNOCK THE HUSSLE
What happens when Drake rips your pic of Nipsey and gives you no credit?
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? MOP
‘I DO POETRY ALL THE TIME’
Meet Boston’s new Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola It’s March 12 at Emerson College’s Paramount Theater, and the City of Boston is holding its official celebration of its newest and third poet laureate, Porsha Olayiwola. A poet laureate’s main task is to raise a city’s valuation of poetry, but this does not feel […]
INTERVIEW: CLAIRE DENIS
Claire Denis is a French filmmaker whose movies include Chocolat (1988), U.S. Go Home (1994), Beau Travail (1999), Trouble Every Day (2001), and Let the Sunshine In (2018). Her latest work, High Life (2019), opens in Boston on Friday (it depicts the deep-space journey undertaken by a crew of convicts; they’ve been sent out to […]
HOW AMERICA’S FIRST MUSLIM SUPERHERO SURFACED IN BOSTON AFTER 70 YEARS IN RETIREMENT
Kismet, Man of Fate, is almost the exact opposite of the Hollywood manufactured Boston caricature.
BAMS IS BACK: ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER MILESTONE FOR THE BOSTON ART & MUSIC SOUL FEST
Having proved her haters wrong last year, for 2019 Morris set out to clear new walls, and to scratch another entry off her bucket list—namely, by landing two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Eric Roberson as a headliner.
