Insight & India in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
Accompanied by the verbose title, “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” a film that chronicles senior citizens on their move to a retirement home does not promise to be marketable. Yet, Best Exotic proves to be a universally appealing film, especially in its philosophical pursuits, humanistic performances, and intriguing camerawork. The plot is simple enough. Seven [...]
Regina Spektor visits the Orpheum, leaves fairy dust scattered across stage
Charming pianist and whimsical lyricist Regina Spektor brought her manic-pixie-dream-girl wonder act to the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday night in support of the release of her sixth studio album, What We Saw from the Cheap Seats. Prior to her last album (2009’s Far), Spektor often performed solo, filling in her own percussion in the form [...]
Fuzz and Honey: M. Ward and Lee Ranaldo Play the House of Blues
If there’s anything folk aficionados can count on, it’s for Americana lifer M. Ward to be consistently pleasant. The musician brought his homespun, tea-and-honey live act to the House of Blues on Tuesday night, soothing the audience into sleepy complacency with an acoustic guitar and his trademark raspy whisper. The night began with a solid [...]
The Pretty Disheartening: Taylor Momsen’s band at Paradise Rock Club
I have never been so happy to be out of middle school as I was when I exited the Paradise on Thursday night after Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless show. It was (naturally) an all-ages show, so come 11:00, angsty tweens and gangly Skrillex look-alikes poured out of the venue looking as though they had they [...]
Glass half-something: Horse Feathers’ balancing act on “Cynic’s New Year”
Portland, OR-based folk act Horse Feathers has never before made doomsday thoughts of grief and despair sound more appealing. “Every night we all go to a house we’ll never own / Every night we are tired, we’ve been worked to the bone / Nearly every day, we earn a lower wage to tell you what we’re [...]
Music
- Regina Spektor visits the Orpheum, leaves fairy dust scattered across stage
- Fuzz and Honey: M. Ward and Lee Ranaldo Play the House of Blues
- The Pretty Disheartening: Taylor Momsen’s band at Paradise Rock Club
- Glass half-something: Horse Feathers’ balancing act on “Cynic’s New Year”
- Yann Tiersen’s latest leap in genre
Film & TV
- Insight & India in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
- Comic Relief: Five-Year Engagement pokes fun at itself, wins laughs in process
- For The Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival
- Whedon & The Avengers: An interview with film director Joss Whedon
- Catch A Little ‘Luck’ This Spring: An Interview with Taylor Schilling
