Stockholm 59° North at the Pillow
It was the darkly comic offerings of Mats Ek in the middle, and the personable interpretations that gave the evening its distinction.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 19, 2008

Hybrid rhythmic engine

Nation Beat is a gas
Fusions are the lifeblood of music, but too often they come with a whiff of high-concept gimmickry.
By JON GARELICK | July 15, 2008

Cambodian dance party!

Dengue Fever + Pistolera at the Museum of Fine Arts, July 9, 2008
Dengue Fever’s charms are so extreme that at first they might strike you as incongruous — like a chocolate-covered lobster.
By JON GARELICK | July 15, 2008

Everybody get together

‘Boston Young Contemporaries’ at 808 Gallery, ‘Big Bugs’ at Garden in the Woods, and the 10th Annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery
The 808 Gallery is a BIG space to fill.
By RANDI HOPKINS | July 08, 2008

Tokyo roses

Jeopardy! Japanese style
It’s a special people indeed who can cast off the twin yokes of rigid history and a driven work ethic to spend time unwinding in Day-Glo game-show studios.
By MIKE MILIARD | July 01, 2008

10 above-and-beyond Earth-huggy ways to do things in Boston that, of course, do not use gas

By MIKE MILIARD | June 11, 2008

10 ‘fun’ things to do in Boston without gas

By SHARON STEEL | June 11, 2008

Don’t leave me this way

Botanical Forms at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History, Carroll Dunham and more at the Addison, and Renzo Piano at the Fogg
Leaves lead a wild life, and each leaf’s physical structure reflects both its individual biography — revealing the pathways, for example, of insects that have eaten their way across a leaf’s surface.
By RANDI HOPKINS | May 06, 2008

Paint by numbers

Three Tall Women at the Lyric; 7 Blowjobs from Theatre on Fire
Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women are really one tall woman, and she’s a tall order.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2008

Get buggy with it

Mirah + Spectratone International at the MFA, January 11, 2008
Mirah wanted us to embrace nature in our daily lives, and she started by giving the creepy-crawlies a heart without stretching the truth.
By MEGAN V. BELL | January 15, 2008

Playing your own game

“Off the Grid” explores the fringes of the art world
I had to feel a little bad for John Beardsley during the symposium for “Off the Grid: Maine Vernacular Environments”.
By IAN PAIGE | November 07, 2007

Pet sounds

Going green
This summer, I got two kittens of my very own, and I am completely obsessed with them.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 07, 2007

Boston music news, November 9, 2007

Notes on the 20th anniversary of the Middle East
"If you don’t have the flowers, the bees won’t come for the nectar.”
By JIM SULLIVAN | November 05, 2007

Eating bugs can help a troubled planet

Yum!
So why the Western taboo?
By JESSICA KERRY | October 31, 2007

October 26, 2007

Weekly forecast

By SYMBOLINE DAI | October 24, 2007

Moving stillness

Waterbugs and drawing machines at SPACE and the ICA
Brian DeRosia explores alternative modes of image production with a gallery presentation as unique as his process.
By IAN PAIGE | September 05, 2007

Modest Mouse, buzzing bees

The Download Festival, Tweeter Center, August 18, 2007
“I think this festival is sponsored by large, stinging insects . . . made by Volkswagen,” quipped Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 20, 2007

Maggots ate my flesh!

As antibiotics increasingly lose their potency, medical professionals are turning to (yecch!) fly larvae to take a bite out of wound recovery
If you met Dana — attractive, athletic, and tan, somewhere in her 30s — you’d never guess her secret.
By AUDREY SCHULMAN | July 16, 2007

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