CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | May 21, 2013 | News

Wayne Shorter Quartet Without A Net (Blue Note)   For over a decade, Wayne Shorter’s acoustic quartet has been the most exciting working band in jazz. Unfortunately, there’s been too little recorded evidence of their telepathic ability to erase the...

Between the Lines: Obama in Plunderland

by | May 21, 2013 | News

The president’s new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the rabbit hole his populist conceits have tumbled. Yet the Obama rhetoric about standing up for working people against “special interests” is as profuse as...

From Our Readers

by | May 21, 2013 | News

EOPSS Spin Fails Sniff Test The spokesman for the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security’s claim that “the department has received no public feedback about the plan” to start dog sniff searches in Massachusetts prison waiting rooms...

Jason Collins

by | May 21, 2013 | News

Sports equality history was made recently when twelve-year NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first openly gay male athlete to come out while still playing a major American sport.Collins played center for the Boston Celtics this past season before being traded to...
Nightcrawler: They?re Crafty

Nightcrawler: They?re Crafty

by | May 21, 2013 | Music

King Crimson fretboarder Robert Fripp is officially credited with creating and overseeing The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists (OCG). As the 100-member plus collective makes its way through the Bay State with a May 24 Beantown engagement at the First Church of Cambridge...