ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
THE ART OF THE UNREAL: ON FILMS BY DEBRA GRANIK AT THE BRATTLE
When we talk about realism, we talk about it mostly in terms of the banal. The can rolling down the hill, desperate impatience in waiting rooms and lines, offhand gestures and flat lighting––those details that we take to signify everyday life as it is lived. The filmmaker Debra Granik is often described (and on occasion […]
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE SOCIETY WANTS TO ‘ENTERTAIN THE DERANGED’
The Slaughterhouse Society is an oddity that one would usually find during Halloween season—a time when all things spooky and horror become hot commodities in the US. But it’s an aesthetic that the performance troupe, primarily led by Boston-based performer and self-described “art-weirdo,” Fem Bones, pays homage to all year round. While the […]
THE OTHER RACISM
Colorism is not discussed openly enough in African American, African, and African diasporic communities. It is our third rail, and the pain, embarrassment, and humiliation from its legacy still lingers with us even today.
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? PECK
OUTSIDE THE LITTLE BOXES
Meet the author who braved the ’burbs to explore the roots of some of America’s most progressive communities beyond city limits
FESTIVAL REPORT: ON THE SOUND OF 70MM AT THE SOMERVILLE THEATRE
Most discussion on the subject of 70mm film exhibition places an emphasis on the texture of the images, for reasons both understandable and entirely justifiable. But what this inadvertently obscures is that advances in audio technology have been tied into the development of 70mm (and other modes of large-format film exhibition) just as tightly as […]
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? LYME DISEASE
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? MOTHER’S DAY!!!
THE EBONIC WOMAN AT GOLD DUST ORPHANS
★★★★☆ We’ve got trouble, my friends, right here in Massachusetts. Hennessy Brown (Qya Marie) was a black-market baby who, as a little girl, watched her adoptive fathers get gunned down by an illegal immigrant dressed as a nun on the streets of Lynn. Twenty years later, she’s a brilliant young scientist who […]
