Uncle Vanya: Rural Postmodernism at Here Partway through David Herskovits’s new production of Uncle Vanya (now playing at Here), a performer walks around, ring-girl style, with a placard that reads “Time Passes”—reducing the terrible essence of Chekhov’s dramaturgy to a sight gag. This bit of cutesin...
A Second Look: 'Being John Malkovich' is a surreal mind trip The 1999 Spike Jonze-directed story of people seeking 15 minutes of an ultimate fan fantasy is a riff on modern celebrity culture. One of the greatest first films in all of American cinema, "Being John Malkovich" (1999) introduced audiences to Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, two of the most distinctive voices in contemporary movies. A mad scramble of surrealist tropes and philosophical ideas ...
Elizabeth Debold: The War on Women -- and the War Within Women "Femininity" is women's past, and "feminism" is our present. What I mean by this is not what you might think -- I'm not pitting family and children against career and culture, or wanting a push-up bra versus wearing no bra.
'The Ballad of Mott the Hoople' The embalming of rock history continues apace, and some days it seems as if every band that had a following in the 1960s or '70s is getting a rockumentary of its own. There's a reason for that, and it's not just boomer nostalgia: Bands back then were mapping out new territory, whereas contemporary rock seems largely content to stick to the paths. Influences were seen as a stepping stone then ...
Look who's talking Over the past 20 years David Strassman has taken the ancient art of the ventriloquist from a music- hall curiosity to an exercise in state-of-the- art animatronics and invention.
Jay Ambrose: Ideas have consequences for the Secret Service Not so long ago, a woman with a doctorate informed me all truth was cultural and that all my notions of good and evil emanated from Western civilization, meaning they were invalid. As abstract and academic as the theory sounds, it may help explain Secret Service whoop-de-doo in Cartagena, Colombia.
Religion Briefs Mount St. Benedict to host Enrichment Series talks
Muscat: a monument for Frans Sammut On the occasion of the first anniversary of Frans Sammut’s death, during a soiree organized near the Mikiel Anton Vassalli monument in Ħaż-Żebbuġ, on Friday 4 May 2012, Labour Leader Dr Joseph Muscat said a monument will be erected for the late author in his native hometown.