Strawberry Jam
If you don’t know your baseball history, you should know that Darryl Strawberry was one of the most feared home-run hitters in the sport...
Chopper
When Stephen Sondheim worked on a new piece, it was his habit to play preliminary sketches of his songs to Judy Prince, the wife...
Summer Songs
Brett Haley’s music drama Hearts Beat Loud stars Nick Offerman as a widowed Brooklyn record-store owner whose only daughter (Kiersey Clemons) has her heart...
Return to 304
If you have a long memory, you may remember that 304 Houston St used to house the AMC Sundance movie theater. If your memory...
Pigskin Dreams
NFL players’ bodies can barely hold up through 16 games, but we’re still going to try to make football a year-round sport regardless. Fort...
Beach/Walker
As usual, the Mimir Chamber Music Festival combines old favorites with chamber works by voices you may or may not be familiar with. Among...
Summer on the Lake
While everyone prepares for July 4 next week, there’s another cultural holiday you may want to attend this weekend: the Cleburne Dragon Boat Festival....
Illyria, Verona
One reason why Twelfth Night isn’t staged more often is a casting difficulty; Shakespeare writes a twin brother and sister who look so much...
The Lonely Crowd
Slightly less than two years ago, Dave Heath died on his 85th birthday, the result of a fall at his Toronto home. The Philadelphia...
Superflat
Almost 20 years ago, Takashi Murakami coined the term “superflat” to describe Japanese art, in terms of both its emphasis on surface (spurred by...
