Levine’s Schubert and Bolcom, Boston Baroque’s King Arthur, Jan Curtis
It’s been a joy to see James Levine back on the Symphony Hall podium, with his admirable combination of vitality and sensitivity.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | March 07, 2008

Et tu Brute?

Interview: The Wire's "Prez" does the Bard
"The whole theatrical event is sort of . . . a much more mysterious one."
By JON GARELICK | February 05, 2008

Waters of Narcissus?

Maureen Fleming at the ICA
Fleming created a one-woman Art Deco extravaganza — with herself looking like nothing so much as a Rolls Royce hood ornament.
By DEBRA CASH | November 06, 2007

American dreamer

Ha Jin retraces his journey
It’s difficult to think of an American writer with a story more inspiring than Ha Jin’s.
By JOHN FREEMAN | October 15, 2007

Celtic Everland

Loreena McKennit, Wang Theatre, April 21, 2007
“We missed you, baby!”
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 26, 2007

From her to eternity

The real Nico emerges on The Frozen Borderline
As a consort of the elite, Nico ruled them all.
By JAMES PARKER | April 10, 2007

Poetic license

Carla Bruni’s No Promises
For generations, moony adolescents have stoked their feelings of being sensitive and misunderstood by moping around reading poetry.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | February 20, 2007

Read all about it

Some of Boston’s best bars have a literary history
Riding there red line from Central Square to Park Street recently, a friend of mine from Philadelphia surveyed the length of the train and said, “You don’t see this in Philly.”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | September 01, 2006

Flashbacks: June 23, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Doug Fleischer, Sam MacLaughlin, and Hannah Van-Susteren.
By EDITORIAL | June 21, 2006

Kitchen-sink ‘Summer’

A sprawling show at the Peabody Essex
You wouldn’t think a painting exhibit of ships and still lifes, landscapes and portraits, primitives and abstractions representing 82 artists and spanning 148 years would hold together in any discernible way.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | June 14, 2006

Apocalypse now

Killing Joke resume their urgent war dance
Jaz Coleman — magus, timelord, leader of the tribe of Killing Joke — is theatrically drunk on the end of a phone in the Czech Republic.
By JAMES PARKER | May 28, 2006

All in a name

Behind the names of our favorite Irish watering holes
From the Burren to the Blarney Stone, local Irish-bar names salute the old country.
By HENLEY VAZQUEZ | March 16, 2006

From the ashes

Jay McInerney grows up
Honest, perceptive, and keenly felt, The Good Life — the story of two couples’ furtive, hesitant stabs at happiness in the brave and fearful new world of post-9/11 New York — is McInerney’s most mature and affecting book yet.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 22, 2006

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