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More honest food blogging: Lineage in Coolidge Corner 27 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
The graceful bar at Lineage. My second Restaurant Week outing of the summer brought me to Lineage, just outside Coolidge Corner, which is best known for its subtle way with seafood. But alas, the es...
Honest food blogging: La Voile on Newbury St. 24 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
Restaurant Week always draws my partner and I out of our culinary rut to new spots we haven't tried before - and this week we took advantage of the $38 three-course menus at La Voile on Newbury and Li...
One of my favorite films this year 21 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
Surconsommation by AssoEnTouteFranchise I don't know too much about it - only that its title, appropriately enough, is Overconsumption . . . (And amusingly enough, you have to sit through an ad for c...
How do you solve a problem like Iago? (Part I) 21 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
Envy (Graham Abbey) meets jealousy (Dion Johnstone) in the Stratford Festival's Othello. Shakespeare's tragedies often set Aristotle on his ear, one way or another. Taken together, they amount to a ...
Masterpiece theatre: Stratford does Schiller 17 Aug 2013 | 09:45 am
Seana McKenna and Ben Carlson in Mary Stuart. Hub Review readers are familiar with my annual trek to Canada's Stratford Festival, now inarguably the greatest classical theatre in the hemisphere. Well...
Not quite singularly Absurd 15 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
Ayckbourn's characters share a cup of Christmas cheer in Absurd Person Singular. Photo: A.R. Sinclair. I'm a bit surprised by the positive reviews for the Nora Theatre's Absurd Person Singular (throu...
In memoriam: John Grimes 11 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
John prepares for action. I'm afraid I must pause today to note the passing of a musician and a friend: John Ernest Grimes (at left), timpanist of the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque, a l...
Why Christopher Durang is Wrong, and the People Who Love Him 10 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
The talented cast of Why Torture is Wrong, etc. There's a special dismay in realizing your own politics don't make for great theatre - it's a strangely sinking feeling that dogged my experience of Ch...
Today's video: A tribute to Kubrick from Cassini 8 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Around Saturn from fabio di donato on Vimeo. This montage of imagery from the spacecraft Cassini as it soars through the rings of Saturn is not only a startling scientific document, it's also a wry t...
The man who saved Boston Ballet, Part II 7 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
We return now to a conversation we began with Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of the Boston Ballet, some weeks ago, just before the company embarked on a successful tour to London. Here we try to p...
