Legacy of Dance

Legacy of Dance

Dance fans longing for a peek at the new generation of ballet artists should get a treat when the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble (celebrating its 40th anniversary) appears as part of Jacob’s Pillow Dance 2010 Festival. Its program, the group’s first...
StageStruck: Countdown to Summer

StageStruck: Countdown to Summer

Zero Mostel was a larger-than-life personality and an outsize talent. Jim Brochu is no featherweight either. As a youth, Brochu idolized that rhinoceros of an entertainer, then grew into a body that rivals Mostel’s impressive physique, and now has created a...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Audubon on Biomass, Take 2 To clarify [see letter with editor’s response, May 27, 2010], since 2005, Mass Audubon has commented publicly and repeatedly on the biomass issue. Beginning with comments to the state on the Russell Biomass Project when it was first...

Between the Lines: Out of the Loop

The day after the storm, it didn’t seem all that odd to be without cable TV, without phone or Internet service. We felt lucky to have electric power, which many of our neighbors in Franklin County remain without as I write this. We awoke that first morning to...

ImperiumWatch: Oil in the Marshes

Beaches uninhabitable, the sand soaked with grunge. Plants, including those that hold the marshlands together by preventing erosion, smothered. Crabs, shrimp, oysters, fish and birds facing death either because of the oil itself or because of the killoff of their...