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Students collaborate with theater pros for Darling

Students collaborate with theater pros for Darling

December 10, 2012

Romantic, familial, and musical drama will take the stage of Emerson’s Semel Theater tonight in Darling, a new work presented by Retrop Productions...

Album Review: Sudden Myth by Jake Sorgen

Album Review: Sudden Myth by Jake Sorgen

December 9, 2012

Layered and experimental, Jake Sorgen’s new album Sudden Myth offers an intriguing flavor of folk. Sorgen’s diverse instrumentation and artful...

Review: Act of Valor reduces SEALs to lifeless shoot-em-up

Review: Act of Valor reduces SEALs to lifeless shoot-em-up

December 9, 2012

There’s something scarily jingoistic and reductive about the new action film Act of Valor. It is being marketed as “a motion picture starring...

Plenty to be scared of in Fear's new release

December 9, 2012

In the same way a book should never be judged by its cover, albums should be played in their entirety before they are determined to be good or bad-except...

Channing Tatum talks The Eagle and always playing a soldier

December 9, 2012

to discuss the film.Beacon:  This is definitely a very physical role, so how did you prepare?Channing Tatum: It was really kind of funny. [Director Kevin...

Owen and Aniston cannot keep film on track

December 9, 2012

Derailed is Swedish director Mikael Hafstrom's first English-language film. Hafstrom recently directed Evil, which garnered an Academy Award nomination...

Best foreign film Tsotsi unworthy of statuette

December 9, 2012

Do not be fooled by its foreign title, nearly unpronounceable to the American tongue, Tsotsi (pronounced sot'see) is an accessible film, and will likely...

Hairspray does not hold up to original version

December 9, 2012

Do you remember your first glass of wine? Whether it was from a $100 bottle or a $5 one is irrelevant since you had nothing to compare it with. The same...

Review: The Kid with a Bike

Review: The Kid with a Bike

December 9, 2012

Throughout life, people learn to cope with betrayal and abandonment, but the aftermath can be particularly agonizing when the one who inflicts the pain...

Review: Frustrating false starts bring down Intruders

December 9, 2012

Intruders explores the power of a child’s imagination through horror and psychodrama -- although the concept appears to have been overly ambitious...

Student folksmith takes his time building a meaningful sound

December 8, 2012

strongJaclyn Diaz, Beacon Correspondent/strongFrom a quiet Wilmington, Mass. living room — with instruments and sheet music scattered about — came...

Weeding out archaic views on unconventional motherhood

December 8, 2012

As Weeds nears the finish line of its seventh season — with no word yet on an eighth — I’m left worried about the legacy of a show that,...

Professor’s film stares into the Face of the Enemy

December 8, 2012

 Three decades after Iran released the American citizens it had held captive for 444 days, SPEC and the visual media arts department plan to screen...

Reaching the December kill screen: The best video games of 2008

December 8, 2012

p2008 was an odd year for gaming. Despite being the quot;year of the indiequot; thanks to titles like iCastle Crashers/i#44; iBraid/i#44; and a swath of...

The curtain Also Rises on Hemingway’s classic

December 8, 2012

Andrew Doerfler, Beacon Staff This week on the Paramount Mainstage, a group of expatriates will travel from Paris to Pamplona without leaving their...

Bellflower finds success through collaboration, not flamethrowers

December 8, 2012

Staff and Ben Schwartz, Film ColumnistBellflower, which is wrapping its theatrical run in Boston today, is an independent film that has been cobbled together...

X Dance at Emerson

December 8, 2012

This weekend, Emerson Stage’s annual production of X-Dance will grace the stage of the Greene Theater. The show runs for approximately an hour and 15...

Show Times: Bright Lights, Visual Storytellers

December 8, 2012

Photojournalist Rick Macomber was at ground zero on 9/11, the beaches of Normandy for the 50th anniversary of D-Day, and Cambodian refugee camps in the...

The instrument you play when nobody’s looking

December 8, 2012

During the last hours of 2011, I sat cross-legged in my friend Lyndsay Stone’s family room with 30 other people, each holding an instrument: guitars,...

Nineties nostalgia never goes out of style

December 8, 2012

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