2012 is the year of the Water Dragon--so this is an ESPECIALLY lucky, creative, and powerful year for anyone born in a water dragon year-- like me! Today FEB 4 is-- according to some calculations of the Chinese astrological year--the first day of the year of the WATER DRAGON! Read and enjoy. Creativity in the [...]
Grammy Nominated NICOLAY Collaborates with Exploratory Jazz Trio THE HOT AT NIGHTS!! to Provide SUPERBOWL Alternative February 5 at Club Passim!!! Not a football fan? Fear not. The Super Bowl is NOT the only show in town on Sunday, February 5. Harvard Square’s Club Passim will host a unique collaborative performance featuring Grammy-nominated music producer/performer [...]
This painting is on its way to the Superbowl with The Patriots! (I knew there'd be an art angle on this SUPERBOWL caper.) It was painted by Massachusetts artist Brian Fox whom I did a story on a few years ago. It was immediately clear he knew a thing or two about drafting-- drafting as [...]
LOL! This is what Albert Brooks tweeted shortly after the "Academy" snubbed him when they announced their Oscar nominations. If I were the entire Academy, Brooks would have been a nominee in the BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR category for his creepily menacing performance in DRIVE alongside: Jonah Hill in MONEYBALL (I was thrilled this young comic [...]
I recently sat down with Anne Hawley Director of the ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM which opens its new wing—all glass and light-- by architect Renzo Piano on January 19, 2012. The opening is sure to be the highlight of the cultural scene this winter! For [...]
A revolutionary production of Ibsen's classic A DOLL'S HOUSE featuring really tall women and really small men--40-53 inches high to be exact!--recently had its Boston premiere at ARTS EMERSON's Cutler Majestic. MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE took the absurdity and inequity of women who are treated as dolls in a society of "small" men--and made it the [...]
HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY WEEKEND! Here are a few extra "Joyce's Choices" for 11/11/11 and beyond! DENIS LEARY TO HOST 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF EMERSON COLLEGE’S LITERARY MAGAZINE: PLOUGHSHARES Authors Alice Hoffman, Sebastian Junger, Sue Miller, Dennis Lehane, Chef Ming Tsai, Bruins’ Cam Neely and more to present the “Best of” Ploughshares on November 14th on the [...]
I've seen 4 plays over the last ten days-- here's the latest: TWELFTH NIGHT, Shakespeare's hilarious romp about a shipwreck that leaves siblings disguised and lovers mismatched, all of them adrift on a storm-tossed shore--until they find themselves and each other. Marvelously directed by Melia Bensussen with a big slip and slide of a wet set, [...]
This Saturday is your last chance to see a New England Premiere over at the SpeakEasy Stage: their excellent production of 2010 Tony nominee for best play NEXT FALL! The drama pivots on the relationship between Adam, an atheist, and Luke a practicing Christian. It's about the complexities of love and religion, the nature of [...]
