Imagine the pitch. Out in Hollywood: the band Queen meets the movie “The Matrix,” and the loser ends up being Orwell’s Big Brother. If that sounds like a bit much, well, so does “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Freddie Mercury was nothing if not over the top, and his surviving bandmates Brian May
Read More →April (Italia Ricci) is an ambitious young reporter proving her mettle at a Boston newspaper. She has an eye on the publication’s gorgeous, sensitive, super-cool arts-and-entertainment writer (Richard Brancatisano), and he seems to like her, too. Given her talent and charm, it looks like April has it made. But then
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Posted June 04, 2014in Cover Story
In many ways, PrideFest — the capital city’s annual celebration of LGBT unity — is all of us. Drawing in an estimated 10,000-12,000 people annually, PrideFest is a vital, living, breathing thing. It pulses with the lifeblood of a community and embraces each and every one of its children with
Read More →Gigadollars and cents In April, Anton Purisima filed a claim in Federal District Court in New York City that the Lowering The Bar blog calculated was for the largest monetary demand ever made in a lawsuit, “$2,000 decillion” (or 2 followed by 36 zeroes, which, of course, is many times
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Posted June 04, 2014in Film Review
“A Million Ways to Die in the West” 3 stars Rated R 116 minutes Comedy Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson Of the hundred or so gags, jokes and one-liners that comic genius Seth MacFarlane throws at the wall over the course of his bawdy and sometimes grotesque western
Read More →Patresa Hartman is so good, it’s nearly impossible to convince yourself that she hasn’t been doing this her whole life. “I call last summer ‘my internship,’ where I booked my first actual gigs,” she said, sitting in Royal Mile sipping a beer. “Before that, I’d just done open mics.” Everything
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Posted June 04, 2014in Belly Up To...
One of Johnston’s newer hangouts is popular for a reason: The spacious, baseball-themed establishment is perfect for the watching your favorite MLB team, celebrating a girl’s night out or even just taking an hour away from the office for lunch. Although if you do have to go back to work,
Read More →Echo & The Bunnymen “Meteroites” 429 The “personal approach” taken by Ian McCulloch in the 11th Echo and the Bunnyman’s album is, quite simply, sublime. The liner notes talk about McCulloch’s “complex relationship” with his father, which seems like tired ground for a band as established as this. But instead
Read More →Lavonne McRoberts of Peace Love & Stuff is putting on a benefit show to benefit autism awareness this week at Wooly’s. The second annual “Team Luca Benefit Concert” will feature Peace Love & Stuff, along with SP3 and DJ James Garcia. Admission is a $5 suggested donation, with all proceeds
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Grand Central Publishing Pub. Date 5/6/14 $14 384 pp In her debut novel, “The Conditions of Love,” Midwest author Dale M. Kushner examines the changing role of love in the life of a young teen. As the story opens, we meet Eunice
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