“I think that aesthetic nostalgia can draw people in and then the content can force them to engage in a different way, ideally with more than the project—and start to think critically of what is actually going on around us.”
ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
LIFE OF THE PARTY
Slam feminism with a true-crime twist in latest from poet Olivia Gatwood Back in the fall of 2013, before Trump and #MeToo, I first encountered Olivia Gatwood’s poetry at a Lower East Side poetry slam, which she won. To someone with a newly minted degree in English from a small liberal arts school […]
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? TIME OF DEATH
FESTIVAL REPORT: “CABALLERANGO” AT CIFF AND BLIFF
Caballerango (2018) played as part of this year’s Camden International Film Festival, which took place from September 12-15, 2019. It will play as part of the Boston Latino International Film Festival tonight, September 27, at the Emerson Paramount Center. At the 2018 iteration of the Camden International Film Festival I saw one film of […]
LEARNING TO SEE IN THE DARK: JOMAMA JONES IN BLACK LIGHT
★★★★☆ “What if I told you it’s going to be all right? What if I told you not yet?” It’s this kind of wisdom—sometimes reassuring, sometimes unnerving, but always ominous—that pulses through Black Light, Daniel Alexander Jones’ one-woman mystical cabaret-style show that will run at American Repertory Theater’s OBERON through Sept 29. […]
A FEARLESS, BOLD VISION IN ARLEKIN’S THE STONE
★★★★☆ One house in Dresden becomes ground zero for a multigenerational exploration of guilt, complicity, survival, and truth in Marius von Mayenburg’s The Stone, which plays at Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre through Sept 29. The play is a complicated one, made even more difficult by the fact that that it jumps back […]
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? LAST WORDS
INTERVIEW: JESSICA PRESSLER
Jessica Pressler is an American journalist who currently works as a contributing editor at New York Magazine. Her article “The Hustlers at Scores”, originally published in 2015, is the source material for the new film Hustlers (2019), written for the screen and directed by Lorene Scafaria. The true-crime narrative concerns a small group of former […]
WALLIS ON DEMOCRACY AND ECOSOCIALISM: TWO URGENT BOOKS FOR A WORLD COMING UNHINGED
The labor and ecological movements must converge, Wallis argues, despite a fraught history pitting “Jobs” against “the Environment.”
BARELY A GLIMMER OF HOPE: MCKIBBEN LOOKS AT WHAT COULD BE THE END OF ‘THE HUMAN GAME’ IN ‘FALTER’
“By most accounts, we’ve used more energy and resources during the last thirty-five years than in all of human history.”
