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Peter Hook rediscovers his Unknown Pleasures

Age of consent
Peter Hook has heard the criticism, and he does not care.
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | December 01, 2010

Review: Beyond Gay: The Politics Of Pride

Activism on parade
The Gay Pride Parade is one of the best parties of the year — so much so that it’s easy to forget that, not so long ago, it was risky to participate, or that in some cities today, a token gesture of pride can get you imprisoned or killed.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 04, 2010

What is this place?

Participatory performance art at Whitney Art Works
Bertolt Brecht asks, "In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes," he answers, "there will be singing. About the dark times."
By ANNIE LARMON | January 13, 2010

Narrative truth

Krzysztof Wodiczko’s war story at the ICA
For the majority of us Americans, Iraq and Afghanistan are a series of news-data points — number of Americans killed today, number of car bombs, spending tallies, estimates of civilian deaths.
By GREG COOK | November 11, 2009

Review: Somers Town

Shane Meadows' latest triumph
At just 70 minutes, Shane Meadows's film is short, sweet, and winning.
By GERALD PEARY | September 02, 2009

Review: The Jester

Celebrating show business and religious tradition
The National Center for Jewish Films adds to its invaluable collection of restored Yiddish films with Joseph Green & Jan Nowina-Przybylski's Der Purimshpiler , a 1937 musical comedy.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 24, 2009

Interview: Ed Zwick

Into the woods
On January 16, director Ed Zwick's Defiance storms theaters with its harrowing tale of the freedom-fighting Bielski brothers, who retreat to the forests of Belarus to protect an ever-growing brigade of Jewish refugees and wage relentless guerilla war against the Nazis.
By SHAULA CLARK | January 19, 2009

Luckey in Amsterdam

Paralyzing hopelessness at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam
Simply, there’s no more prestigious place for a documentary to debut than IDFA, rightly regarded as the very best documentary festival in the world.
By GERALD PEARY | January 23, 2009

Can classical be underground?

Portsmouth's Navona Records releases an indie aesthetic for orchestra
At least one of the reasons many of us contemporary-music fans don't get into classical music is because it seems like no one wants us to listen to it.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 14, 2008

The way it is

Interview: Talking about American Teen
Nanette Burstein admits that “through the pain and torture” of high school, she was able to come to terms with who she was.
By SHARON STEEL | July 29, 2008

Slideshow: Black Angels and Warsaw

The Black Angels and Warsaw at the Middle East Downstairs, June 29, 2008
The Black Angels and Warsaw at the Middle East Downstairs, June 29, 2008
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | December 16, 2010

Psyched Up

The Black Angels + The Warlocks at the Middle East Downstairs, June 29, 2008
The music of these bands are rooted in the psychedelic movements that erupted 40 years ago, but we were spared extended druggy superjams.
By MEGAN V. BELL | July 01, 2008

Control freaks

Get Smart dumbs down
Back in the ’60s, those crafty cranks Mel Brooks and Buck Henry spun the red-scare spook biz into a sit-com full of wit and absurdity featuring rival agencies KAOS and Control.
By TOM MEEK | June 17, 2008

Spy games

Alan Furst’s “Night Soldiers” novels
The gray afternoon, the loveless assignation, the endless bureaucracy.
By CLEA SIMON | June 10, 2008

Adrian Sherwood

Becoming a Cliché/Dub Cliché | Real World
Have no fear: Real World’s reissue of producer Adrian Sherwood’s second solo album from 2006 is a fantastic choice for dubdorks and dubnewbs alike.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | May 06, 2008

Cinema paradiso

The Independent Film Festival of Boston is movie heaven
Elusive animals, the mysteries of time past, peer pressure, and, inevitably, Iraq dominate what we were able to screen from the sixth annual Independent Film Festival of Boston.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 22, 2008

Film on the fringe

Jewishfilm.2008 explores the frontiers
Virtually every major city in this country hosts at least one “Jewish Film Festival” each year (even Baton Rouge and Dayton).
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | March 25, 2008

Going to Hell

Bread and Puppet tours Bush's inferno
“Abandon all hope, you who enter here” are the words we find inscribed across the gate of Hell at the beginning of the third canto of Inferno.
By GREG COOK | January 29, 2008

Movie music

The BSO, Handel and Haydn, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Cantata Singers, David Daniels, and Teatro Lirico d’Europa’s Tosca
Classical music in 2008 Boston did not get off to a brilliant start.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | January 23, 2008

Garage-rock heaven

The Sonics, Cavestomp! at Warsaw, Brooklyn, November 3, 2007
Of all the rock bands who have ever reunited, the Sonics waited the longest.
By BRETT MILANO | November 05, 2007

Disc by disc

The new Joy Division catalogue
The new Joy Division catalogue
By MATT ASHARE | October 24, 2007

Start the revolution without me

History lessons in 12:08 East of Bucharest
To judge from recent movies from that country, everything in Romania is going to pot. Except Romanian movies.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 24, 2007

Making the case

Letters to the Boston editor: March 2, 2007
Bob Woodward wants us to believe he wholeheartedly thought we had to rush into war.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | February 28, 2007

History tours

Silence at New Rep; trying at MRT; Olympia Dukakis in Rose
Silence could be golden, but British playwright Moira Buffini can’t resist throwing in cheaper metals.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 24, 2007

A winter’s tale

The season ahead on area stages
Even as the family drama of your holiday comes to a close, there’s no need to don a kerchief and settle in for a long winter’s nap.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 28, 2006

Whose art is next

Three artists whose reputations resemble Manning's
Three artists whose reputations resemble Manning's
By RICK WORMWOOD | September 13, 2006

Just checking — on you

The RI state police seek a scary level of intrusion
We must have missed it when Alberto Gonzales was named honorary chief of our staties.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | June 13, 2006

Got live if you want it

This spring’s roots and concert rundown
Mai Cramer was a beloved figure in local roots-music circles. For 24 years she hosted the popular show “Blues After Hours” on WBGH radio and was a tireless champion of the music.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | March 08, 2006