Month: October 2002

By now, you should have given Aimee Mann’s new album, Lost in Space , a few thousand listenings—not because you don’t get it, but because you do. “Humpty Dumpty” was on local playlists for a while, but Mann is the kind of artist who still makes albums you want to listen to, from beginning to…

Though he still tours constantly, Bobby Z.’s attention lately has been taken up more and more by the movies. Perhaps inspired by the Oscar netted by “Things Have Changed,” Dylan’s developed a thing for releasing his new songs on soundtracks. His newest, “Waitin’ For You” was in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, so you’re…

Eugene Larkin has been a fixture of local printmaking for more than 30 years, a denizen of both MCAD and the University’s art department. Larkin’s work has a reassuring quality to it—never indulging in gimmicks or trends, but hewing to old-fashioned media and traditional values in composition, tone, and texture. In terms of subject matter,…

Mexico’s most prominent photographer turned 100 this year. Sadly, he died just a few weeks ago, before he could join us; the Walker was already bringing to town a Getty Museum retrospective of 100 of Alvarez Bravo’s works covering the many phases of his long career. Born into a family of painters and photographers, Alvarez…

If Groucho Marx were a brooding existentialist French playwright, he’d be Eugene Ionesco, creator of the Theater of the Absurd. In fact, Ionesco was much influenced by Groucho’s anarchic spirit and irrepressible verbal dynamism, although Ionesco’s creations were far more surreal, not to mention darker and nihilistic. It’s surprising how much humor there is to…

After long and dreary years in the comedy wilderness, inflicting duds like like Life Stinks and Robin Hood: Men in Tights on innocent moviegoers, Mel Brooks went back to square one. He took his 1968 cult classic (and still best) film and rewrote it as a Broadway musical; nicely ironic considering it’s about two schlemiel…