Film: Martha Coolidge’s ‘I’ll Find You’
Music is often an important component of film, elevating the action and visual settings while usually taking a back seat. As effective as it can be, it’s rarely central to…
Stage: ‘Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci’
Leonardo Da Vinci predated William Shakespeare by half a century; their paths never crossed. Both were artists who changed the world with their vision; each had flinty intellects interested in…
Stage: Back to the ’50s in ‘Maple and Vine’
Even as patrons file in Spooky Action’s basement theater space at the Universalist National Memorial Church, the central couple of the new production “Maple and Vine” are already on stage…
Documentary Review: ‘Everybody Dance’
“Everybody Dance” is the motto of Bonnie Schlachte’s Center of Ballet for All Kids in Agoura Hills, Calif. where special-needs kids of a wide age and abilities can learn and…
Tav Falco’s Panther Burns On the Prowl
Rock ’n’ roll is a sound and it is a style and Tav Falco’s been straddling both since the late 1970s. The latest version of Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, on…
Music: The Decemberists at Wolf Trap
The Decemberists, the charming chamber folk-rock band from out of Portlandia, became famous for live performances as elaborate and detailed as their ornate songs, staging obscure battles or sea scenes…
Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe at Wolf Trap
It’s gratifying to have any Elvis Costello concert come around, after two years of pandemic postponements. But the one that finally took the stage at Wolf Trap in Virginia last…
Movie Review: New Englanders Get Frisky
For people in Flint and many other communities, water impurities are no laughing matter. Millions are estimated to have to consume contaminated tap water. But for "Love in Kilnerry," a…
Movie Review: Surprise Party Gone Wrong
Here’s a terrible idea: To guarantee that a reluctant brother appear at a surprise party, have him kidnapped and taken there. It could be the plot to some rambunctious comedy…
Sarah Borges Rocks the Pearl Street
Listeners literally place performers on pedestals, onto elevated stages and spotlights. So it was a little shocking to hear Sarah Borges say during her free-wheeling show at the Pearl Street…