Entertainment
Rewriting the narrative
"If you drop an oak tree seed into a concrete world, there’s life inside of that seed. It’s vibrant but it’s not growing, it’s...
Romanticizing the glitch
The Amazon rainforest was ablaze last year as artist Mark Amerika and curator Jessica Kooiman Parker began to conceptualize a new media exhibition for...
Reflections on Baking
Who knew the pecans float to the top ofthe pie? Who knew —When a knife comesclean it is done?
While I recordthat the sun is making a...
The shame of a nation
The year was 1978, and
China’s future did not look promising. The country had survived wars,
depression and famine, plus a cultural revolution was taxing the...
Just Mercy
Monroeville, Alabama,
1987: A man is condemned to death for a crime he did not commit. Do you need to
know the color of his skin,...
An unexpected path
Until high school, composer Gustav Hoyer had never played an instrument, so he’d certainly never considered a career as a musician.
But a class in...
Takács Quartet features Mendelssohn siblings in spring concert series
Programs featuring string quartets by sister and brother Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Jan. 12-13) and Felix Mendelssohn (May 3-4) will form the bookends of the...
Running through walls
Any music act with a unique sound is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing...
#InstaNovels
You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.
Don’t scoff,...
A year of Trump
For those who make their living producing political cartoons, it could be argued that the election of Donald Trump was a godsend. It has...
Now we are 63
In 1964, Britain’s
Granada Television charged researcher Michael Apted to select 14 7-year-olds
from disparate backgrounds for the documentary program, Seven
Up! Their aim: to get a...
