Month: July 2012
Central Cinema’s Summer Series
Catching summertime blockbusters has become a time-honored tradition among moviegoers. But an entire film festival devoted to the elements that make summer summer—the vacationing, the partying and the blasts of heat and swooning romance that surface...
Review
Pinter Festival Offers Hard Perfection
Whoever said that nothing good comes of bad behavior was wrong. The pair of plays by Harold Pinter that open this summer’s Pinter Festival at ACT’s Falls Theatre are full of self-interested loutishness, but the dramatic result produced by this...
Essay
(Un)frozen in Time: The Record at the Henry
Records are heavy, in every sense of the word.
Whether or not we are old enough to revel in nostalgia for their heyday as the dominant format for recorded music, vinyl records are intensely evocative objects. More than CDs—and certainly more than...