‘Civil War’: For correspondents in a torn country with echoes of today, any side is the wrong side
Some might call this a manipulative stoking of fears, and they’d be right, but the charge is forgotten as Alex Garland stages a phenomenally choreographed siege of Washington, D.C., that’s as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.
Dx Arcade is focused on games, games, games while readying May opening in Harvard Square
In its nearly 400-year history, Harvard Square has never seen race cars, Nerf blasters and dinosaurs under the same roof. That will soon change.
Good news and bad news: Gold for orchestra, word of the Democracy Center shutting down
When spaces such as the Democracy Center disappear, opportunities for young musicians to showcase their own music their own way disappear too. That’s not how you nurture your local arts and culture community.
‘Muppet Madness’ keeps pace with Marathon and there’s space at The Brattle: ‘2001’ is first
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Wicked Queer fest fare at The Brattle (which also has “Muppet Madness” and a 2024 Space Film Festival), very different Somerville Theatre noirs and poetic works by Margaret Tait at the Harvard Film Archive.
Reviewed: ‘La Chimera,’ ‘Wicked Little Letters,’ both ‘Monkey Man’ and a ‘DogMan’ in theaters
In theaters now are Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” Dev Patel’s debut “Monkey Man,” Luc Besson‘s unusual “DogMan” and Thea Sharrock’s comedy inspired by true events, “Wicked Little Letters.”
Pair behind Burren in Davis Square are buying Toad and Christopher’s, to become McCarthy’s
The Christopher’s Restaurant & Bar and attached Toad nightclub in Cambridge are set to change hands after a sale fell through in the fall. The new buyers will likely be exciting to many: They’re the owners of The Burren in Somerville’s Davis Square.
Regret the error? Try embracing it instead.
The next time you go to a show and find the bill not as advertised, dig it. You’re hearing an artist you’ve never heard or didn’t expect to hear, and that’s good.
Wicked Queer festival arrives at The Brattle; Somerville screens roots of modern horror
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include The Wicked Queer Film Festival at The Brattle, works at the roots of modern horror in Somerville, “Taxi Driver” in Kendall Square and Best International Feature Oscar nominee “Traces” at Fresh Pond.
How to enjoy the April 8 solar eclipse in Cambridge and Somerville
The solar eclipse seen from 2:16 to 4:39 p.m. April 8 is the best we’re getting until 2079. Here are ways to appreciate it.
Somergloom looms anew at JJ Gonson’s Once, while hip-hop toasts Boston from Middle East
JJ Gonson has a lot of irons in the fire, but local music fans know and love her best as the head of Once, an “itinerant” music venue preparing for another summertime “celebration of all things dark and heavy.”
