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The Sound of Tyrannynew
System of a Down's Serj Tankian soundtracks the A.R.T.'s production of Prometheus Bound.
Boston Phoenix |
Daniel Brockman |
02-17-2011 |
Performance
Tags: Serj Tankian, System of a Down
Chatting Up Dame Ednanew
Dame Edna Everage is surely the most popular and most gifted woman in the world today. Housewife, investigative journalist, social anthropologist, talk-show host, swami, children's-book illustrator, megastar, celebrity spin doctor, and icon.
Boston Phoenix |
Jim Sullivan |
04-08-2009 |
Performance
Ricky Jay's Sleight of Handnew
To call Ricky Jay a "magician" is like calling Leonardo a portrait painter. Esteemed among his peers as one of the finest sleight-of-hand artists in the world, Jay is also a recognized scholar in the motley history of illusionists, cardsharps, and con men.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
04-02-2009 |
Performance
Hip-Hop Mamas from the Suburbsnew
These ladies aren't rapping, scratching records, or writing graffiti (not yet, at least), but they are preserving the art of — no shit, really — breakdancing.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Faraone |
01-30-2009 |
Performance
The Nutcracker + Burlesque = The Slutcrackernew
"Later, Drosselmeyer returns with the vibrator. Lo and behold, it grows bigger and becomes the Slutcracker Prince. The Slutcracker courts Clara and convinces her with his wily ways to come to the land of sexual fantasy." Slideshow attached.
Boston Phoenix |
Jim Sullivan |
12-12-2008 |
Performance
Are Rape Jokes Ever Funny?new
Irreverent comic Sandra Bernhard won't be shilling for the Boston women's shelter Rosie's Place this year. Are the rules of comedy different for girls?
Boston Phoenix |
Sara Faith Alterman |
10-16-2008 |
Performance
Interviewing Dick Smothers, the Favored Sonnew
When CBS canceled top-rated Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in April of 1969, Tom and Dick Smothers were shocked. Nearly 40 years later, Dick, says that's probably why he and his brother remain famous.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
09-24-2008 |
Performance
Wait, Who Is This?new
Andrew Earles and Jeffrey Jensen shine the dim light of cultural obscurity on the prank phone call.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
07-17-2008 |
Performance
A Liberating Experiencenew
Forty years after a bunch of Cambridge hippies stepped off into Dance Freedom, they're still out to prove that to dance is to live. Or is it the other way around?
Boston Phoenix |
Neely Steinberg |
04-17-2008 |
Performance
Tags: dance
Crank That, Techienew
Last week, a dozen MIT grad students and profs gathered outside Building 54 and did Soulja Boy's Superman dance. "This will single-handedly transform the coolness factor for MIT," said one observer.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin E. Curran |
10-11-2007 |
Performance
Tags: dance
Dance Dance Revolutionariesnew
The Super Secret Dance Society considers itself "a viral plague of joy" -- an epidemic that will spread over your town, your neighborhood, and maybe even your favorite bar, real soon.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
02-24-2006 |
Performance
Tags: dance
Richard Pryor, 1940-2005new
Richard Pryor, who died of a heart attack December 10 at the age of 65, was the natural enemy of sanctimony and editorializing. His stand-up routines about sex and race were so disarmingly honest that they were -- and continue to be -- truly liberating.
Boston Phoenix |
Steve Vineberg |
12-14-2005 |
Performance
Tags: performance
A Scum-Shock Queen Grows Upnew
Lisa Crystal Carver doesn’t have to pee in litter boxes anymore because she has plenty of volunteers to do it for her.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
11-29-2005 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Neil Hamburger and the New Face of Underground Comedynew
Neil Hamburger is part of a flourishing breed of comic whose style of humor has been branded "anti-comedy," "alt-comedy" and "indie comedy." It's traditional stand-up with an untraditional point of view.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
05-26-2005 |
Performance
