America's Finest News Source has released a book celebrating its 21 years of satire (with a wink). Onion editors Joe Randazzo and Joe Garden talk with Renee Montagne about the serious business of being funny. Also: See the fun The Onion has had at NPR's expense.
In an NPR tradition, Susan Stamberg shares her weird-sounding but delicious cranberry relish recipe.
The flamboyant emotionality that marked the first Twilight film is missing in the second.
Based on Michael Lewis' acclaimed book, John Lee Hancock's julep-sweet screenplay turns a well-told true story into a feel-good fantasy for white liberals — a movie that doesn't dig deep and too often seems content to trade in stereotype. But as ever in Hollywood, the based-on-reality defense will provide a certain amount of cover, and Hancock will probably have an audience pleaser on his hands.
New Moon, the latest movie in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight vampire saga, is sucking in marketers, who are using the franchise's characters to sell everything from bottled water to late-model luxury cars.
Sarah Palin may be the Republican party's next big hope, but commentator Rod Dreher says her new book, Going Rogue, does little to bolster her image. She may be the perkiest small-town American in the spotlight, but Palin is selling her personality, not a platform.
The history of literature is filled with authors who also performed surgery or scribbled prescriptions. Lynn Neary speaks with two doctors who are also fiction writers — Abraham Verghese and Terrence Holt — about the link between medicine and writing literature.
BOSTON — 2010 will be a big party year at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshires. Musicians, composers, conductors and alumni will toast the 40th anniversary of the Tanglewood Chorus, the organization’s all-volunteer, 300-member choir. And prolific Hollywood composer John Williams celebrates his 30th anniversary.
BOSTON — Elected officials gathered with artists Thursday on Beacon Hill to talk about their role in the state’s creative economy.
Officials in Plymouth will meet with executives from Plymouth Rock Studios on Tuesday night after major financing fell through on the long-planned development project.
For most of us, the experience of going to war is impossible to grasp. A new audio-video installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art attempts to channel the chaos and confusion American soldiers feel on the ground in Iraq.
The acclaimed amateur choir Chorus Pro Musica kicked off its 61st season on Sunday in Boston’s historic South Church, where 100 singers were lead by the choir’s first female conductor.
The 1960’s cult TV series “The Prisoner” has been remade and premieres this month on the AMC cable channel. Jim Caviezel stars as No. 6 and Ian McKellen as 2. Meanwhile, the 17-episode original series starring Patrick McGoohan as No. 6 has been re-released on DVD and is airing on the Independent Film Channel.
The City of Cambridge lost an icon this week: master storyteller Brother Blue. For more than a decade, Brother Blue and his wife Ruth produced hundreds of hours of storytelling on Cambridge Community Television.
PARIS — Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
House concerts are a longstanding tradition in Boston. They happen in basements, living rooms and lofts, often sporadically, with varying levels of success. But The Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain has been packing them in every week for nearly three years.
BOSTON — Paranormal disturbances have been reported on the fourth floor of Shelton Hall, a Boston University dormitory. On the eve of Halloween, a ghost story.
BOSTON — As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum works toward completing its new building and expansion project, it’s also “going green” by digging wells far beneath the ground.
BOSTON — Despite a financial setback that put this year’s First Night Boston celebration in jeopardy, the festivities will go on as planned.
BOSTON — The return of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine after back surgery has been delayed a second time.
BOSTON — The inaugural Boston Book Festival is bringing authors from around the country to Copley Square this weekend. It’s a celebration of all things books, and we thought we’d examine books and stories that use Boston as a place setting.
BOSTON — Dozens of internationally recognized writers such as Richard Russo and Cornel West are visiting Boston this weekend to take part in the workshops, panel discussions, performances, and readings at the inaugural Boston Book Festival, which opens Saturday in Copley Square.
