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Berklee for Africa for Berklee

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:52:36 GMT

In the last few weeks the news from northern and western Africa brings fresh conflicts. But Homeland Security means something different at Berklee College of Music on Monday night, where students from Africa will present a concert of music and...

Big-screen Strangelove at the MFA, Kubrick style

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:03:25 GMT

As a juvenile film fanatic, I was given copies of "Truffaut/Hitchcock" and "Stanley Kubrick Directs" one Christmas or birthday in the early '70s, back in the days when you could see all their films at the Brattle or the Orson...

First listen: Kingsley Flood face their 'Battles'

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:26:01 GMT

Fresh off a win as Best Americana Band at the BMAs, Kingsley Flood seems intent on proving that they'd like to take the whole deal. The band's new full-length, "Battles," officially due Feb. 5, still offers the intimacy that drove...

Anatomical art show wants you - today

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:07:59 GMT

Between the time she sent her press release and when I actually read it, Naomi Slipp's Kickstarter reached its goal, so some of the suspense has gone out of this. But you still have one day to kick in more...

You do need a weatherman...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:38:17 GMT

Hurricane Sandy has local forecasters getting on their foul-weather faces and rolling out their bold-faced fonts, although there's still no telling exactly which way the storm will go early next week. Normally I'm loathe to fall under the spell of...

Get thee to 'Dogtown' before it closes

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:44:36 GMT

You have ten days to get over to the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester and see Marsden Hartley: Soliloquy in Dogtown, an exhibition of the great American painter's depiction of one of the stranger places in Massachusetts. If you don't...

In Cambridge, it's time again for RiverSing

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:26:22 GMT

Saturday brings the autumnal equinox, which means it's time for music, poetry and communal singing at the 9th annual Revels RiverSing at the Charles River. Revels music director George Emlen hosts the free outdoor celebration featuring over 100 chorus members,...

For Breaking Bad fans, waiting is the hardest part

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:16:12 GMT

Many TV shows kick off a pop culture meme or two, and a brilliant few invade your dreams. "Breaking Bad" invaded reality a couple of weeks ago, as Alabama authorities put an alleged meth cook named Walter White on their...

Zombies donate to fire relief effort

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:56:23 GMT

A fire at 95 Columbia St. in Cambridge left a bunch of folks homeless this week, and now the zombies from New Exhibition Room are helping to raise money for the victims. A few weeks back I wrote a Globe...

September music in JP, on Ray Charles

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:11:32 GMT

September shapes up as an interesting musical month around town. Some 24 acts have signed on for the second annual FREE Jamaica Plain Music Festival at Pinebank Field on Saturday, Sept. 8th, from noon to 7 p.m. Boston rock stalwart...

"Passion Play" around town

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:07:52 GMT

Usually the Boston premiere of a Sarah Ruhl play would come from one of our city's established troupes, but this month's "Passion Play" is the work of the Newton-based Circuit Theatre Company, made up of theater students from colleges around...

Score one for WGBH vs. WBUR

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:34:12 GMT

Executives of WGBH and Public Radio International say all the right things in this morning's Globe story. That PRI will remain independent after its acquisition by WGBH. That the deal won't affect PRI's distribution deal with WGBH's crosstown nemesis, WBUR....

Jazz fans taking the fight to WGBH tonight

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:54:50 GMT

Jazz lovers of all stripes are invited to turn out at 1 Guest Street, Brighton, tonight at 8 for a swinging New Orleans-style jazz funeral, complete with live music. The address is the home of the WGBH broadcast empire (right),...

Mulling the jazz downgrade on WGBH

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:05:57 GMT

You've probably heard by now that WGBH (89.7 FM) has pulled the carpet from under weeknight jazz listeners, with plans to move Eric Jackson's venerable "Eric in the Evening" jazz show to the weekends, cutting it from 16 hours a...

Streaming Tanglewood history

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:30:43 GMT

A 1938 recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, led by Serge Koussevitzky, a 1975 performance of Mendelssohnâ€™s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Rudolf Serkin, led by Seiji Ozawa, and Harbisonâ€™s Symphony No. 1 led by John Harbison in 1984 are...

Levon Helm honored at Passim

Tue, 29 May 2012 18:53:29 GMT

Levon Helm was a smoker for much of his life, not a huge surprise for a guy who began playing drums in roadhouse bands when he was still a teenager. Helm, the drummer and a singer for The Band, was...

Zombie apocalypse needs backers

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:02:54 GMT

If you have a few bucks to spare and want to support the upcoming zombie apocalypse, read on. The New Exhibition Room theater group is trying to raise money to buy enough rubber viscera, stage blood and tattered clothing for...

Cambridge's Club 47 folk venue celebrated in new documentary

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:05:00 GMT

It's difficult to overstate the importance of Cambridge's Club 47 to America's folk music boom in the 1960s, although many have tried. Now the iconic club known today as Club Passim is celebrated in "For the Love of the Music:...

Greenfield festival features Woody Guthrie family tribute, stellar lineup

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:51:55 GMT

You might want to start making plans now to spend July 14-15 in Greenfield for the 26th annual Green River Festival. This year's installment of the fun but low-key festival presented somewhat improbably by the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce...