Archive for ‘April, 2011’

Crafty Capitalism

Sure, many Boston University students rely completely on a part-time job or a work-study position to land a few bucks – but many others have chosen to get crafty.

Style and substance

For a girl from the backwoods of Vermont, Grace Potter sure cleans up nice. And her band The Nocturnals swept the floor with an adoring crowd at the House of Blues Friday night, updating and fleshing out a live show that has grown and expanded with astonishing ferocity since the release of the group’s self-titled [...]

Not quite happy, thank you

“Let’s be people who deserve to be loved,” says Annie, the alopecic sex addict. That is the overarching theme of Josh Radnor’s directorial debut happythankyoumoreplease. Deserving to be loved, that is. Not alopecia or sex addiction. Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) plays Sam Wexler, a struggling writer living in New York who gets saddled [...]

Different shades of The Green

Mondays are often the most difficult night to get a big turnout at a show, much less to get people moving. But Hawaiian band The Green has never really had much of a problem with either. Having only formed in 2009, the band blew up last year with their self-titled debut album, which hit the [...]