Between the Lines: Art and Shovels
My driveway, not long ago, looked like those windswept landscapes where forlorn polar bears play. I’d waited too late to blow the snow, led astray by forecasts of a balmy 52-degree afternoon. I’m bad at snow removal. I blame my Southern childhood, in which frozen...
Scene Here: Birdy It’s Cold Outside
It’s never cold at Deerfield’s Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory. No matter the chill of winter, it’s always hot and humid inside, a high-latitude rain forest. The conservatory houses creatures that would hardly appear on a bobsled team recruitment...
CD Shorts: The New Basement Tapes
Lost on the River (Electromagnetic Recordings/ Harvest Records) What could go wrong? Take a passel of unfinished Bob Dylan songs from the mid-’60s, pass ’em on, put T-Bone Burnett in charge of producing an album, and — best of all — let other folks sing them. Be...
Brides in Party Hats
The rehearsal dinner scene is often pretty stale, an affair, perhaps, staged in some long-lost hotel “function room.” The family members file in, grab plates and head to a steaming side table full of chicken with the texture of hockey pucks, fainting green...E-Edition
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