Category: So Little Time

The 28-year old Georgia native flexes her emotional range on The Orchard (which dropped in late February), her third and best disc to date. Producer Craig Street concocts the sort of pop-jazz-soul-gospel stew he fashioned to break Cassandra Wilson into the mainstream, and Wright provides a similarly breathy, atmospheric vocal. Left field covers of Led…

Gordy Johnson is a connoisseur of jazz piano trios, and not coincidentally the format is his metier as a bassist. As its title implies, GJ4 is the fourth time Johnson has mixed and matched trios from his impressive connections with national stars and local luminaries who are drummers and pianists, and it is arguably his…

You’ve seen this image before. Of course you have — if nothing else, at least a cheap print in a college dorm. Gustav Klimt’s Gold Portrait, stolen from Viennese Jews in 1938, is now the most expensive painting ever sold — and the opening subject of The Rape of Europa, an "epic story of the…

In celebration of the 40 years since Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Heights Theatre is showing the 1968 masterpiece, digitally remastered in 70mm, a project of Kubrick’s before his death in 1999. This historical depiction of the future raised many questions as to the existance of life and the mysteries of science and…

Eleven truth-telling women passionately grieve and celebrate the myriad facets of their complex lives in the new Northfield women’s poet anthology, Penchant. The title implies an inclination, and the title poem, by Karen Herseth Wee, explains that each of these poets possesses a drive: "An uncontrollable urge to write, reveal, chant aloud that which otherwise…

Life is no movie. We have no soundtrack. (Ok. Sometimes we do.) But we sure have plenty of background noise — background noise and visual noise, which somehow play off each other in a most fascinating way. Local artists Ben Garthus and Greg Priglmeier have joined forces to bring us Background Noise, an attempt to…