At first glance, the title and concept of Mike Binder’s drama “Black or White” may seem simple and unimpressive: a white man in a custody battle over his granddaughter against her black grandmother....
Synesthesia is a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as occurs when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.
Though...
A person can be visually impaired yet still clearly hear birds singing in the morning. Another might not be able to hear the birds, but instead see the change of a season reflected in a tree’s leaves....
Instead of peeling through candy wrappers looking for a golden ticket on Jan. 13, Boston
music lovers scoured the city looking for hidden vinyl records.
The citywide scavenger hunt for the coveted records...
Best New Boston Bite: 2014, year of the fancy doughnut
Brooke Jackson-Glidden
While San Francisco is hyperventilating over $4 toast, Boston has the breakfast game down with a new twist on a classic.
Let’s...
“The Imitation Game,” which will be released in Boston Friday and nationwide Dec. 25, tells the story of the brilliant, socially awkward mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), who led the...
Rupert Wyatt’s “The Gambler” is something of an anomaly.
He insists that it is not a remake of the 1974 Karel Reisz drama of the same name, though the two share similar plot points. Rather, the...
“Once upon a time…”
With that, this story begins as so many others do. It makes sense, though; even with a steady stream of rebooted and reimagined fairy tales giving, say, machine guns to Hansel...
Celebrated returns rank among the most thrilling narratives, and Michael Christmas’ homecoming show Wednesday evening was no exception. Fifteen minutes before the Roxbury-raised rapper’s 6 p.m. set...
In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s renowned ballet, “The Nutcracker,” the shifty-yet-kind Herr Drosselmeyer gives the blue-eyed, pure Clara Silberhaus a nutcracker toy for Christmas. That evening, from...
At the beginning of the Fall 2014 television season, FOX’s “Gotham” premiered with a premise that seemed like beaten ground ― yet another Batman origin story? Did the public really need it to be...
Since the quartet of ass-kicking, wisecracking penguins appeared and captivated audiences in “Madagascar” and its subsequent sequels, the franchise has never been about the four main animals – Alex...
