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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

Arts

For Emerson Stage, it#039;s Much Ado About the 1960s

December 31, 2012

William Shakespeare lived during the tail end of a time of revolution: the Renaissance. Never before had the modern world seen so much culture, art and...

Pushing Buttons: Sequels and Mad Worlds abound in gaming spring preview

December 31, 2012

The spring season has historically been a ho-hum time in gaming, since publishers dump all their blockbusters-or at least hopeful moneymakers-onto the...

Great performances, grim reality in BCA#039;s Blackbird

December 31, 2012

Just a few short blocks from Emerson at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End, playwright David Harrower's iBlackbird/i forces itself upon the...

A Way of Being loses relevance in crammed panopticon

December 31, 2012

The Panopticon Gallery contradicts the work it displays. It forces the visitor to question whether works stand on their own or if the place has an influence...

The Whitest Kids U#039;Know speak on behalf of Miss March

December 31, 2012

Trevor Moore and Zach Cregger are not stupid. They know that their new film iMiss March/i could potentially be seen as a typical road-trip sex comedy....

Political films aim to pierce heart and mythology

December 31, 2012

The Visitor, writer-director Thomas McCarthy's second film, contains two hackneyed storylines in one movie. It is the story of the uptight white guy who...

Shepard Fairey#039;s Supply and Demand boasts Hope at ICA

December 31, 2012

As iSupply and Demand/i went up at the Institute of Contemporary Art last week, street artist Shepard Fairey was arrested on two outstanding warrants for...

An alternate view: commercial profit mars Fairey#039;s work

December 31, 2012

Believe it or not, there were street artists before there was Shepard Fairey.Fairey's ardent capitalism sits alongside his populist images in a strange...

Grammy whammy: music awards preview

December 31, 2012

Record of the Year This year's nominations are all decent songs, but follow the trend of being overplayed.,There's more to this year's Grammys than just...

New documentary unfolds shocking Texas drug case

December 31, 2012

iTulia, Texas/i is a documentary by filmmakers Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen that investigates the story behind the case of Thomas Coleman, a freelance...

Emeralds, Rubies or Diamonds; take your pick

December 31, 2012

"Oohs" and "ahhs" arose from the crowd as the curtain came up on the opening night of The Boston Ballet's newest production: George Balanchine's iJewels/i....

The Brattle Theater offers old-school romance for Cupid#039;s day

December 31, 2012

With Valentine's Day and the Academy Awards falling within a week of each other this year, most movie theatres are currently screening the nominated films...

Crumb#039;s quot;obscenequot; images displayed at MassArt

December 31, 2012

There are many distractions in your way before you enter the iR. Crumb's Underground/i exhibition at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Clouds of...

Soderbergh shows limited vision in lengthy Che

December 31, 2012

,iChe/i is a four-and-a-half hour character study that charts the personal development of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the iconic Argentinean doctor who helped...

ICA#039;s clockwork finds meaning and confusion in time

December 31, 2012

,Upon looking through the glass entrance to the Institute of Contemporary Art, curious viewers are beckoned by the Technicolor looking glasses of Ugo Rondinone's...

The Mafia exposed, inside and out in gripping Gomorrah

December 31, 2012

From the incendiary opening scene in a tanning salon, it is clear that Director Matteo Garrone has not made your father's gangster film. iGomorrah/i immerses...

Emerson enters in dialogue with historic martyrs

December 31, 2012

Anne Frank died at Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp, in early March, 1945. She was 15 years old. Emmett Till died of a bullet wound to the head....

Trailer park: Films for the new year

December 31, 2012

biUp/b/iWith one animated feat after the next, Pixar studios looks ready to rival the great imaginative achievements of Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki...

The Wrestler team opens up to The Beacon

December 31, 2012

Director Darren Aronofsky is most notable for his brutal and emotionally exhausting iRequiem for a Dream/i, but in his new film, iThe Wrestler/i, his...

Luhrmann#039;s ambition drives then derails Australia

December 31, 2012

The shining accomplishments and egregious errors of Baz Luhrmann's latest epic historical romance can be summed up by its gargantuan, impossibly ambitious...