It's a kind of mating game for Lester Bangs disciples. "Did you catch that new band at the Middle East last week? They sound like a cross between early...
As if the group's suggestive name weren't enough (a polite term for a male sex toy involving a metal ring and leather straps), the opening verse of "Stink,"...
Just as many movies have memorialized marijuana, scores of musicians have sung its praises-often while smoking a joint in the studio. Some bands have even...
The Beacon understands that Emerson students are some of the most dedicated and morally upstanding in the entire country, and would not even know what...
The current production of Sondheim's classic, performed at the Cambridge YMCA by the Longwood Players, is many things, but merry is most defintely not...
Author N. Scott Momaday joined the ranks of Whoopi Goldberg, Edward Albee and Anna Deveare-Smith as a visiting artist-in-residence at Emerson this weekend,...
Released just last month, the album's politically charged punk-rock songs are against the war and all things government.,With the three-year anniversary...
Few will mourn seeing Wicked.,"No one mourns the Wicked," sings the touring company of the latest Broadway blockbuster, currently playing at the Opera...
Treadwell left feeling the male press corps and jury could not understand the greater lesson to be learned from Snyder's case, especially when they sentenced...
That was a massive success for the company, and the Lyric chose to substantially lighten the mood by following with a sweet romantic comedy, Talley's Folly,...
that everyone goes through, with different means of finding it, dealing with it, and expressingit. However, most may not realize how exploratory and performance-based...
Adam Pascal doesn't look like a rock star who would be besieged by screaming fans every time he takes the stage. After a performance on Friday night, when...
The appearance of a floating house attached to thousands of colorful balloons is worth the price of admission alone, but Pixar's newest film, iUp/i has...
This is the latest popcorn-fare action flick to hit theatres, and it serves its purpose as an entertaining and engrossing action film, even though it is...
Carnegie Hall 4.6.02, named for its famous recording location in New York City, showcases deep emotions; DiFranco, the audience and the country were still...
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone's David Fricke at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, Morrissey disappointed fans of downtrodden...
Her life ambition changed, however, when she began to play open mic nights in Boston just months after graduation. Although she had no prior music lessons...
If you're in the mood to indulge yourself in two hours of blatant racism and embarrassment, head to the theatre for Norbit, an equally hateful and humorless...
Today's current wave of infectious pop-rock with an alternative flavor has offered up The Spill Canvas' newest album, One Fell Swoop. Full of the likeable...
This same repression and angst is carried throughout the entirety of the album (which hits stores on Tuesday); although this angst might sound unappealing,...