Arts & Review Articles

Post 'facebOp!' in your musical favorites

By Leon Ratz and Claire Murphy
From the first drum solo to the last trombone slide, BC bOp!'s latest musical creation, FacebOp!, proved just as addictive as its namesake. The jazz ensemble's Saturday night, two-and-a half hour concert at Robsham Theater featured an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, swing, boogie woogie, and Latin pieces performed by 24 top-notch instrumentalists and vocalists.

Spirit of Elvis alive and well

By Joseph Neese / Arts & Review Editor
This weekend, the Contemporary Theater presented An Evening of One Acts, which included two plays - Graceland and Asleep on the Wind - both by playwright Ellon Byron. In Graceland, Byron takes her audience to June 4, 1982 - three days before Elvis Presley's mansion of the same name is set to be opened to the public.

Laughs sound off in O'Connell

By Diana C. Nearhos / Assistant Layout Editor
My Mother's Fleabag performed three shows this weekend: one Friday night and two on Saturday. I cannot speak to the other two, but the early show on Saturday evening started and ended with laughs. The show featured two rehearsed skits. The introductory sketch featured one Fleabag member as another's stereotypical mother, saying things like "Isn't that the girl you had a crush on in the beginning of the year?" The group ended the show with its second rehearsed skit - a parody of The Sound of Music.

Laughter roars in Clooney's roaring '20s flick

By Christine Rodrigue
The cast of Leatherheads creates a luring draw for audiences to go and see it. First is director and leading star, George Clooney, a long-lusted-after hunk and previous winner of People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive award. He alone would be enough to lead women everywhere to this movie, but then there is John Krasinski, from NBC's hit sitcom, The Office.

Editor's Corner: A kid in the video store

By Blair Thill / Associate Arts & Review E
As I look out the window of the T, I see it. It doesn't look like much from the outside - a mere building among the restaurants and beauty salons of Washington Square. I jump off the trolley car and make my way down the street toward the bright yellow sign - a beacon of sorts after long weeks of work.

Stones 'Light' up the big screen

By Matthew DeLuca / News Editor
"It's good to see you. It's good to see anybody," says Keith Richards at one point in the Martin Scorsese-directed concert documentary Shine a Light. Filmed over a two-night stand at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in 2006, this finely crafted concert film provides the audience with not only the finest sound quality but also the best seat in the house to see rock's longest running act.

Mental instability provides some stable thrills

By Tue Tran / Features Editor
When I first saw the title The Raw Shark Texts, I thought, "Oh great ... if only I were reading it in the fourth grade," which was when I loved everything about sharks. I thought that it was going to have some cute, predictable plot about sharks, like a youth on an abandoned island, who ends up befriending a messenger shark.

iProf: Bonnie Jefferson

By Tula Batanchiev / Features Editor
Now playing on Professor Bonnie Jefferson's iPod A Kiss to Build a Dream on - Louis Armstrong Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles Piano Man - Billy Joel Get Happy - Judy Garland La Vie Boheme - Rent Soundtrack Hello Out There - Bette Midler Make Someone Happy - Jimmy Durante Mr.