REVIEW: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) dir. Jose Quintero
Karen Stone (Vivien Leigh) is a flower in peril drifting down an empty river. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is a romance devoid of love. Mrs. Stone, an American stage actress with a crumbling career was traveling with her aging, rich husband. On the plane, he dies of a heart attack. Stone drifts on and rents a… Read more »
The Paths of Trees: A Spotlight on Local Artwork
On view now at MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries is a show called Selections, featuring work by new or freshly returning teachers of the college. An abundance of media is showcased, as multiple sounds, moving images, and designs fill the first floor. The second floor, though equally diverse, is unified by a single artwork spanning… Read more »
In Review: Waywords and Meansigns, Recreating Finnegans Wake (In Its Whole Wholume)
We write to waste no words, suspended in a tremor diffused from hours of listening to three chapters of Finnegans Wake in aural form. The project in reference, Waywords and Meansigns, asked of seventeen musicians to compose a select chapter of the novel as a singular form merging the language of James Joyce and music…. Read more »
WENT THERE: “A Path: Drills for Flight” [Closing Reception] 1/30/16
Walking in on the final day of MARLON FORRESTER’s mural installation, “A Path: Drills for Flight,” @THE NEW ART CENTER in Newtonville, I was so excited to see the nearly completed piece that I walked right by the introductory video. The “activators,” as he calls the mural participants, begin by watching a video of Forrester explaining… Read more »
I Want to Tell You SO Much About How My New Boyfriend Took Me to See a Pony
IMPORTANT STORY VIA THE LANKVILLE DAILY NEWS by Ashley Pfeiffers OH MY GOD! I just HAVE to tell you about how my new boyfriend took me to see a pony! So, we were supposed to have our usual date at the Pizza A-Round. My new boyfriend borrowed his Mom’s station wagon and we headed on… Read more »
WENT THERE: Boston Underground Summit #8 – 1/21/2016
Out of the Blue Too hosted Boston’s eighth annual Underground Summit this Thursday. The summit featured nine bands playing on three stages in a round robin style. One song from one band and onto the next so it went. Round and round, trading sounds. The summit’s nine bands included DENT, Banana, Peter J. Woods, Father… Read more »
JANUARY COMPASS COMICS PAGE: Comics by Justin Mulkern, Brian Connolly, Vicky Smalls, Liz Bowlduck, and Mike Kadomiya
Justin Mulkern Vicky Smalls Brian Connolly Liz Bolduc Mike Kadomiya
PMIOZ: Death Proof (2007) dir. Quentin Tarantino
Screening 1/23 @Coolidge After Midnite Practically an ad for its great filmic forbear, Vanishing Point (1971), Death Proof (2007) is a ridiculously fun, dumb, affectionate movie. The film’s music is great too (as usual), with Jack Nitzsche’s “The Last Race” fitting like a rough, shredded glove over the film’s opening sequence. And just to be… Read more »
Summoning Spirits with Carl Dunn: An Interview
Contributing Female, Sarah Samways interviews artist Carl Dunn on behalf of The Lankville Daily News: While the majority of Lankvillians spent this past Halloween walking around aimlessly, looking for a “good time,” visual artist and occasional occultist, Carl Dunn, spent his morning a little bit differently. Going to the local slaughterhouse, nearby his beloved Fotomat… Read more »
Quilt – “Roller”
One of the most successful bands to emerge from Boston’s underground in the last bunch of years are the singularly psychedelic bunch known as QUILT. Now a four piece the band is set to release their next album PLAZA on MEXICAN SUMMER, which is home to their first two full lengths as well. PLAZA continues… Read more »
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2/4 [food sampling] Chocolate Fest @ Brighton Whole Foods Market 3pm FREE
3:00 PM @ Whole Foods Market (Brighton)
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2/4-5 [theatrics and meyham] Ubu Sings Ubu @OBERON $25
7:30 PM @ Club Oberon
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Featured
REVIEW: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) dir. Jose Quintero
Maddie Pinney
Karen Stone (Vivien Leigh) is a flower in peril drifting down an empty river. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is a romance devoid of love. Mrs. Stone, an American stage actress with a crumbling career was traveling with her aging, rich husband. On the plane, he dies of a heart attack. Stone drifts on and rents a… Read more »
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Fresh Stream
Cian Nugent — Night Fiction
Aaron Teixeira
Imagine a pastoral soundscape of colors and textures; folk melodies at once pleasing and which, a moment later, cut to the quick with sharp guitars and singing viola and and just the hint of horns. Cian Nugent’s music has a natural inclination towards this ideal soundtrack to that trip into those foggy green meadows. Until… Read more »
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Art Attack
The Paths of Trees: A Spotlight on Local Artwork
chloeadubois
On view now at MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries is a show called Selections, featuring work by new or freshly returning teachers of the college. An abundance of media is showcased, as multiple sounds, moving images, and designs fill the first floor. The second floor, though equally diverse, is unified by a single artwork spanning… Read more »
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Featured
In Review: Waywords and Meansigns, Recreating Finnegans Wake (In Its Whole Wholume)
William F. Clark, Alessandro Maione
We write to waste no words, suspended in a tremor diffused from hours of listening to three chapters of Finnegans Wake in aural form. The project in reference, Waywords and Meansigns, asked of seventeen musicians to compose a select ch