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‘My Perestroika’ Review: A Peek Under the Iron Curtain
The excellent documentary “My Perestroika” is an intimate portrait into life within Communist Russia that’s not romanticized or idealized.
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The Future Freaks Me Out
A discussion of Elizabeth Bishop’s “Questions of Travel” and the transition from half-assing your way through life to maybe, actually caring about the future…maybe.
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Scenes From The Underground: BU Central’s All Day Music Fest
BU Central’s first Underground Music Festival started at noon with jazz, ended at midnight with hip-hop and had twelve hours of just about everything in between, from punk rock to acoustic to indie dance pop.
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BU TweetCreep: April 3rd-8th
It’s Opening Day here in Boston, but more importantly for us football fans, it’s time for another edition of #TweetCreep. It seems that after our twinterview with #TweetCreep star @BUDiningService, …
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Starfucker, Champagne Champagne, and Walk the Moon at Brighton Music Hall
Starfucker was out-played by their two stellar opening bands at Brighton Music Hall Tuesday night. Here’s the review for the show.
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The Concert Search: Best Ways to Find Shows
Boston has a great local music scene and a plethora of resources for touring bands. With so many shows going on all the time and so many bands to keep …
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‘Insidious’ Review: Close, But No Cigar
“Insidious” is initially effective and shows plenty of promise, but ultimately falls apart because of an overdone ending.
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FX Brings Much-Needed Bright Spots to Summer Programming
Ah, the summer. No school, beautiful weather, trips to the beach, summer romance. It seems that everything is right in the world. Wrong. Very wrong. The summer’s most egregious offense …
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Singing Sita’s Praises: A Visit from Cartoonist Nina Paley
Sita Sings the Blues‘s ancient Indian heroine Sita must deal with her insensitive boyfriend, a well-worn archetype. But in the case of the film’s creator Nina Paley, the archetype was not …
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Dr. Jon Krosnick: Climate Change is Still an Important Public Issue
Dr. Jon Krosnick claimed that the American public is concerned about global warming during his lecture, “What the Public Thinks About Climate Change: Evidence from More Than a Decade of …
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College Fashionista: Fashionista Spotlight
This article is part of a weekly segment with College Fashionista, an online guide to the latest in college fashion. Article by Cate Young. What caught my eye about this Fashionista …
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‘Jane Eyre’ Review: Jane’s Got the Right (Gothic) Stuff
The latest “Jane Eyre” doesn’t add anything relatively new or unexpected to the Brontëan canon, but it’s a handsomely melancholy adaptation of the Gothic classic, strengthened by solid performances from its cast, particularly its lead.
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