Arts Kelly Meets Cage, Once Again Left: photo of John Kelly by Billy Erb; right: photo of John Cage poster by Everett McCourt On a New Year's Eve in the early 1990s, John Kelly was invited to a party at a downtown Manhattan loft while working on a production of his Light Shall Lift By Editor
Arts Cool Brit Gets Blown Around by the Winds of America Longtime rock music fans may remember England's whiskey voiced Graham Parker and his group, the Rumour -- an ensemble equally adept at Motown-ish rave-ups, reggae, and Dylanesque folk rock — for their 1979 hit album, Squeezing Out Sparks, which yielded the catchy soul-pop single “Local Girls.” Now By Editor
Arts Art Reaches for the Stars at Williams Like many of us, Elizabeth Rooklidge's fate, it seems, was written in the stars. A second year art history graduate student at Williams College, Rooklidge, who made her way east from Southern California, found her muse in the vaults of Williams College Museum of Art's (WCMA& By Editor
Arts Alex Ross at NRM: A Comic Book Coming Home The Norman Rockwell Museum's upcoming exhibition, Heroes and Villains, is going to be pretty super. Opening on Saturday, November 10, it gives more than the usual space to the career of illustrator Alex Ross, best known for his work with DC and Marvel Comics and perhaps the most By Editor
Arts Music: Here Comes Trouble If you want something done right, do it yourself. And if you can't do it yourself, get your Talmudic sisters to help you. This seems to be the motto held by the many women who appear in the scrolls of the Torah. Matriarchs, seductresses, prophets, and mothers line By Editor
Arts Theater Review: The 39 Steps Takes a Leap or Three The dynamic cast of S&Co's The 39 Steps. All photos by Kevin Sprague. In the world of pre-war British espionage, it's all fun and games until someone loses a major national security secret, at which point, quite naturally, things just get hysterical. At By Editor
Arts Film Festivals: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs So you missed your chance. But why waste tears on regret? Sure, opening night at the Williamstown Film Festival and the ever-popular Saturday Night Sneak at the FilmColumbia Festival are both (predictably, at this late date) SOLD OUT. But there is still plenty of powerful hanky action to be By Editor
Arts Singing Change Along: The Old Mezzo Debuts at WAM Theatre WAM co-founder Kristen van Ginhoven and playwright Susan Dworkin What are the politics of singing—and what are the costs? These questions are at the heart of Women’s Action Movement (WAM) Theatre’s world premiere of The Old Mezzo, which runs from October 12-28. The Old Mezzo By Editor
Arts SculptureNow: Now! "Stalking Cheetah" by Wendy Klemperer When people think of public art in small towns, they may conjure up images of statuesque bronzes to martyred saints such as the beautiful 1896 bronze of Saint Winifred by George E, Bissel, looking at the moment rather lonely (if not downright mopey) By Editor
Arts Verlyn Klinkenborg Signing and Giveaway Verlyn Klinkenborg, an award-winning American non-fiction author who lives in the RI region, has been writing literary meditations about the joys, rewards, and tribulations of farm life for years now, most notably as a columnist for The New York Times, where he serves on the editorial board, and By Editor
Arts The Clark Unearths Rare Artifacts and Sterling Clark's Adventures in China Sandstone sarcophagus, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE), tomb of Song Shaozu, dated 477 CE, Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan. In 2000 in Shanxi Province, a nine-ton stone sarcophagus dating back to China's Northern Wei dynasty (386-535 CE) was unearthed. Ironically, the “mini house,” which was once displayed By Editor
Arts Theater Review: John Douglas Thompson Soars in Satchmo at the Waldorf Shakespeare & Company’s final new production of the summer season is Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout'sSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play set in 1971 in the dressing room of the jazz great Louis Armstrong, after what would turn out to be his last By Editor
