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Holiday suggestions worth hearing New audiobook releases touch on literary fiction, Sherlock, silence, and space By Christina Thompson GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
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big stor y in publishing these days is the stupen dous growth in the once sleepy category of audio b o o k s . S a l e s a r e through the roof; cata logs are exploding; libraries are having to rewrite their bud gets to accommodate the demands of their users. So, in this season of giving, why not consider an audiobook (or a gift card with suggestions) not just for your ancient aunt or retired father but for al most anyone on your list. To get you started, here are a few recent releases.
“Astrophysics for People in a Hurry’’ and “Cosmos’’ (Blackstone and Brilliance) Here’s a great pairing, especially for people who like to be educated while they are being entertained. “Astrophys ics’’ was written and is narrated here by astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of the TV series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.’’ Tyson has a marvelous voice, deep and calm i n g , a n d a s a n y o n e w h o h a s e v e r watched him knows, he has the science popularizer’s gift of being able to make even the most abstruse material fasci nating and easy to understand. Add to AUDIOBOOKS, Page G5
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Kurtis Blow is MC, but those beats are Tchaikovsky’s
A ‘Jumanji’ for the videogame generation
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In 1979, Kurtis Blow’s “Christ mas Rappin’ ” became the first hiphop song ever released on a major label, paving the way for the man born Kurtis Walker to be come rap’s first true solo star with his iconic followup single “The Breaks.” Nearly 40 years later, Walker’s still spreading holiday cheer as the MC for “The HipHop Nutcracker,” which comes to the S h u b e r t T h e a t r e T h u r s d a y through Saturday. Walker has been involved with
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the show, in which a dozen hip hop dancers and an onstage DJ put a modern spin on Tchaik ovsky’s classic ballet, since its 2014 premiere at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Director, choreographer, and cocreator Jennifer Weber originally wanted to combine hiphop dance with Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” but when the theater pitched “The Nutcracker” instead, Weber was game. UNITED PALACE OF CULTURAL ARTS “There’s something really in teresting about classical music be Kurtis Blow is MC for “The HipHop Nutcracker,” at the ‘‘HIPHOP NUTCRACKER,’’ Page G7 Shubert Theatre Thursday through Saturday.
What threatened to be cynical exploitation of an ele gant, critically lauded picture book instead proves to be something more palatable in the rollicking , if loosely adapted, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.” Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black might not seem the likeliest casting for breathing life into the rich blackandwhite pastels of Beverlybased illustrator Chris Van Allsburg (“The Po lar Express”). But the group’s thematically, comedically broad inversion of the source
material is consistently enter taining, and squeezes in some n i c e l y p l a y e d c h a r a c t e r growth to boot. Some might remember Robin Williams’s 1995 “Ju manji” feature also took liber ties with this Pandora’s box tale of a mystical board game, particularly in rendering the zoological chaos that it expec torated into the real world. But the quasisequel gets into wholesale changes straight away, scoffing at the fustiness of board games, and imagin ing that Jumanji morphs it self into a video game to maintain its dark allure. ‘‘JUMANJI,’’ Page G5
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A Donald Murray homecoming After nearly 20 years, the papers of the beloved teacher and awardwinning writer have found their way back to the UNH campus in Durham BY JAMES SULLIVAN | GL OBE CORRESPONDENT DURHAM, N.H. — When Hannah Starobin was a child, her family planned a summer trip across the coun try. Her father, the writer Donald Murray, worked as he drove. He dictated while his wife, Minnie Mae, typed notes, on a typewriter perched on the Ford van’s center console. Murray was the lion of the renowned writing program at the University of New Hampshire, known to Boston Globe readers for his longrunning, muchloved Over 60 column (eventually retitled Now and Then), his last one published shortly before his death in 2006 at age 82. When he wasn’t writing or teaching, he was thinking about his craft, always. “Writing, for me, has always been a necessary, secret act of selfishness — and survival,’’ he once wrote. “He loved nothing more than a stationery supply, a chart, a plan,” recalls Starobin, a psychotherapist in Westchester County, New York. Her father, a journalist
and author of more than a dozen books, kept squares of paper in his shirt pocket for notes, she says: “He was con stantly writing in his head.” Murray, who was born in Boston and grew up in Quincy, was a meticulous archivist of his own work, keeping an everpresent “daybook” of his ideas, rough drafts, revisions, poems, short stories, and much more. For nearly 20 years, those daybooks and other yields from Murray’s desk sat in more than 100 archival storage boxes at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Pe tersburg, Fla., awaiting future generations of writing stu dents. Now, in a move that some admirers felt long over due, Murray’s papers recently made their way back home to the UNH campus in Durham. “It’s nice to have them back,” says Starobin. Murray was a big man, and he had the corner office in the English department, says Rebecca Rule, the Yankee MURRAY, Page G7
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In New Rep’s ‘Oleanna,’ a power play in academia By Don Aucoin GLOBE STAFF
WATERTOWN — In the New Repertory Theatre pro duction of David Mamet’s “Oleanna,’’ an angry young woman, having turned the tables on an arrogant mid dleaged man she accuses of abusing his power, spells out the new state of play in un equivocal terms. “You can’t do that any more,’’ she tells him. “You. Do. Not. Have. The. Power.’’ Hear that, Harvey Wein stein? And all the wouldbe Harveys out there: All clear? This is not to say, howev er, that Mamet’s own sym pathies necessarily lie with
the woman in his intermit tently gripping but often te dious 1992 twohander. In deed, anyone looking to for tify the oftstated case that Mamet, the quintessential macho playwright, can’ t write fully dimensional fe male characters will find ample evidence in “Olean na.’’ A college undergraduate named Carol, played with unremitting intensity by Obehi Janice, is struggling mightily in a class taught by a middleaged professor named John (Johnny Lee Davenport). Wearing a yel low sweatshirt and a red ‘‘OLEANNA,’’ Page G4
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‘Cheap, quick, and dirty, that’s how I like it!’ By Mark Feeney GLOBE STAFF
MEDFORD — What’s likely this year’s freshest, loosest, and most exciting art exhi bition is also the most ephemeral. “Robert Frank: Books and Films, 19472017,” an elaborate popup, opened at Tufts Universi ty’s Tisch Library on Oct. 7 and closes Nov. 5. The ephemerality extends beyond dura tion. The catalogue is a newspaper — yes, an actual, holditinyourhands newspaper — a 64page special edition of Germany’s Süd deutsche Zeitung. Don’t worry, it’s in Eng lish. The show’s several hundred images — none of them framed or matted — are print ed on long sheets of recycled newsprint. Oh, and both show and catalogue are free. So
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Robert Frank’s “Welsh Miners” from 1953, on exhibit at Tufts University. maybe subversive is a better description than ephemeral. Subversion is something Frank has few peers at. Certainly, no other major living art ist has been so unpredictable and contrarian for so long: Frank turns 93 next month. His book “The Americans” (1958) trans formed photography, with its seemingly ca sual blend of skepticism and lyricism, alien ation and myth. Yet Frank soon gave up pho tography for experimental film. After a decade devoted to filmmaking, he took up FRANK, Page G7
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THE WOMEN YOU MISSED IN HISTORY CLASS Recalling a dozen ‘Badass Broads’ who’ve (mostly) been forgotten
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he author of the first novel, warriors and rulers, scientists and war heroes. History abounds with tales of trail blazing women long forgotten — espe cially those who were nonwhite, non Western, or not straight. Take a look at a dozen of the women in “Bygone Badass Broads” so you can begin to see what you missed in history class. Page G7
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The makers of “Icarus” set out to investigate doping in cycling; instead, they would come to expose widespread Russian corruption.
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The intense relationship between dear friends and sometime lovers Vir ginia Woolf and Vita SackvilleWest was not a scandal in their own house holds — the writers’ similarly free thinking husbands were reportedly fine with it. But when Woolf set out to write a light novel as a sort of love letter to her companion, she necessarily had to write in code. So she ingeniously creat ed a character based on SackvilleWest who is born an enthusiastically hetero sexual man and wakes one day to dis cover that his anatomy has mysteri ously changed to that of a woman, though his — now her — amorous pas sions are unchanged. The fantastical device of having her ‘‘ORLANDO,’’ Page G7
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Impact of ‘Icarus’ wasn’t in the script By Isaac Feldberg GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
When the team behind “Icarus” first set out to inves tigate illegal doping in cy cling, they couldn’ t have known their work on the Os carnominated documentary would spark an international incident with Russia, one with seismic, stillunfolding
repercussions. In fact, when filmmaker Bryan Fogel first approached Impact Partners, a socialjus tice documentary funder based out of New York, with the concept for “Icarus” (now streaming on Netflix), his pitch skewed more personal than political. It was 2013, ‘‘ICARUS,’’ Page G4
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Glenn Howerton (left) and Patton Oswalt in “A.P. Bio.”
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High marks for the class clowns in ‘A.P. Bio’ By Matthew Gilbert GLOBE STAFF
It’s a sign of the times that Glenn Howerton, the star of NBC’s new sit com “A.P. Bio,” will be unfamiliar to many of the network’s viewers. Hower ton is in the ensemble of one of the most enduring comedies of the past two decades, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” which has run for 12 seasons and has already been renewed for two more. Indeed, after the next two seasons, “It’s Always Sunny” will tie — ironically, if you’ve watched the show — the super wholesome “The Ad ventures of Ozzie and Harriet” for the longestrunning liveaction sitcom ev er. But “It’s Always Sunny,” about the debauchery of a group of friends — in cluding pretending to be intellectually challenged to get welfare, going to an ‘‘A.P. BIO,’’ Page G3
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Ambition, racial justice collide in ‘Hype Man’ By Don Aucoin GLOBE STAFF
After a police shooting of an un armed black teenager, a hiphop per former named Verb decides it’s time to create music that takes a stand against racial injustice in “Hype Man: a break beat play,’’ declaring: “I got things I want to say. I’m gonna say it.’’ That’s a stance Verb has in com mon with Idris Goodwin, the gifted dramatist who wrote “Hype Man,’’ and also, crucially, with Company One Theatre and its artistic director, Shawn LaCount, who is helming the outstanding worldpremiere produc tion of Goodwin’s new playwithmu sic. “Hype Man’’ has things to say and it says them, emphatically, without shortchanging the imperatives of sto rytelling and characterization. Com pany One’s production sizzles with the ‘‘HYPE MAN,’’ Page G4
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A PATTERN HERE A new Museum of Science exhibit looks at the math in nature and all around us B y Ja m e s S u l l i va n | G l o b e C o r r e s p o n d e n t
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irst, a few hard facts about the newest exhibit at the Museum of Science: It’s 1,700 square feet. It features 30,000 LED lights. It’s com posed of 86 large mirrors. Metaphysically speaking, however, the Mir ror Maze is much more than the sum of its parts. It can show you forever. Through the optical illusion of an interlocking network of angled mirrors endlessly reflecting images off each oth er, the maze offers a profound — and fun — glimpse into the halls of infinity. It’s the centerpiece of a new traveling exhibit, “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,” that opens Sunday and runs till April 25. The exhibit, first developed for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, aims to demonstrate math pat terns as they occur in the natural and physical world. Be MIRROR MAZE, Page G5
The “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature” exhibit at the Museum of Science features a mirror maze (above) and other items like a 3D model of a human lung (right) and the hexagonal pattern of a honeycomb (below right). Workers install panels for the mirror maze (below left).
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Caroline Nugent’s humor leaves her mother, Dana, “bent over laughing with tears coming out of my eyes.” The 13yearold’s mom says, “Being funny, being witty, is brilliant. I don’t want to see her lose that.”
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n u F ny Girls Want to give your daughter a hand up in life? Encourage her inner Tina Fey. By Ellen McCarthy THE WASHINGTON POST
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aurie Menser was a 7 or 8yearold in Rockville, Md., when she wandered over to a neighbor’s house one day, slipped a glass eye in her mouth, and got the atten tion of the grownups in the room. Then she smacked the back of her head and stuck out her tongue — waiting for laughs. “They were appalled,” she remembers. “They were like, ‘You need to go home right now and tell your dad what you did.’ ’’ The neighbors didn’t know it was Menser’s father who’d picked up the fake eye at a yard sale and taught his daughter the gag. Don’t worry, he told her, “they just don’t get the joke.” Looking back, Menser wonders how the epi
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sode might have gone had one element been different: What if she were a boy? Would they have laughed then? She suspects the answer might be yes. Menser is 38 and a director of development at a science association. She has scaled the cor porate ladder and thinks that, more than any thing, her success has been driven by her sense of humor. She just had to ignore all the voices telling her not to use it. “There was an expectation that girls would be quieter. And wouldn’t ruin their dresses and wouldn’t be roughhousing and cracking jokes in church,” she says. “And I was very often do ing a lot of those things,” thanks in part to her father’s encouragement to let her be what she HUMOR, Page G7
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Roots artists Gilmore and Alvin found their happy place at the blues
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he six men and one woman in Human Sexual Response will mount the House of Blues stage Friday night in their first home town reunion in five years — and perhaps their last public performance ever. According to members of the group, which formally disbanded in 1982, the alltoohu man Humans may soon reach their natural limit at honoring the manic theatricality that made them a centerpiece of Boston’s New Wave/artpunk scene in the late ’70s and ear ly ’80s. “I think this will be the swan song,” says Dini Lamot, one of HSR’s four (count ’em, four) front vocalists. But Lamot doesn’t be tray any remorse. Instead, he stresses the pleasure of returning to the stage for the first
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time since the Humans’ last House of Blues performance in 2012. “Everybody’s so upbeat about the way the band sounds. So it’s pretty magical. I bet it’s that way for most musicians that maybe have taken breaks and not played continuously and gotten back together. It’s like riding a bike.” HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE, Page G5
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Human Sexual Response (in an undated photo) plays a reunion show on Friday.
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Dave Alvin (above) is touring with Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
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ave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore are both longtime mainstays in the rootsmusic world. Both started out in bands that, at least in certain circles, became legends (Gilmore in oddball progressivecountry outfit the Flatlanders, Alvin with purvey ors of hightest American music the Blasters). Both went on to MUSIC forge successful solo careers, Gilmore offering a brand of countryfolk marked by his high lonesome quaver, Al vin crafting an eclectic roots mix that he sometimes labels “loud folk.” At first glance, the notion of the two touring to gether as a duo may seem a bit surpris ing. But to Alvin and Gilmore, who have been friends for years, the surprise is not that they’re playing music together, but that they’ve never done it before. “We’ve known each other for so long,” observes Alvin, speaking last week from a tour stop in Minneapolis, “but outside of singalongs at the end of multiartist shows, we’ve never played music togeth er.” They just resumed a tour that began out West earlier this year, and will make a stop at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shir ley Friday. ALVIN & GILMORE, Page G5
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In determining when kids can be left by themselves consider their readiness as well as their ages By Allison Klein
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In conversation, Alison Krauss speaks so softly, it’s as if she’s trying not to wake a kitten sleeping in her arms. MUSIC “We grew up in town, but in Champaign [Illi nois] at that time, you drove five min utes, and there were corn and bean fields,” she says gently. Hers is a near ethereal timbre, and maybe exactly the voice you’d expect from the bluegrass siren, who signed her first record deal at thenBostonbased Rounder Re cords when she was a 14yearold fid dle prodigy. It’s the voice that’s earned 27 Gram mys and 42 nominations — “Raising Sand,” her platinum 2007 album with Robert Plant, took home six alone — making Krauss, at 46, the most award ed female artist in Grammy history. She’s long proved to have a knack for finding songs she can make her own, and her latest studio album, “Windy City,” recorded without her band Union Station, is a mix of juke box beerjoint standards that suit her well — Willie Nelson’s “I Never Cared for You” and Glen Campbell’s “Gentle on my Mind,” among them. Krauss, who performs on a double bill Friday with David Gray at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston, spoke by phone from Nashville about her blue grass roots, her exposure to other forms of art at a young age, the thrill of collaborating, and the power of day dreams. Q. When did you first fall in love with bluegrass? A. I grew up in a college town [where there were] a lot of banjo players, fid dle players, and I guess I was about 6 or 7 when we started going to fiddle contests. I’d been taking violin lessons
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A CHECKLIST FOR PARENTS Ruthie Arbit, a therapist and licensed clinical social worker who practices in Washington, D.C., has come up with a fourpoint checklist for parents to consider before leaving a child alone for the first time. SAFETY: If your child needed to leave the house for an emergency, would they be safe? Is there a friend or neighbor nearby who can offer help in an emergency? RESPONSIBILITY: Can your child watch younger siblings, unpack groceries, do his own laundry? If kids are not responsible with you around, they probably won’t be responsible without you. COGNITIVE READINESS: Would they keep a level head if things didn’t go as planned? Arbit gives the example of a child slipping and falling. Would they stay on the floor and wait for you to come home, or would they assess their injuries and, if needed, grab a phone and call someone? EMOTIONAL READINESS: When you are gone, will they spend the entire 40 minutes crying in bed, or will they watch some agreedupon television? ALLISON KLEIN
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our kids are growing up so fast. They are getting smarter and more responsible, and they want more independence. It might be time to let them stay home on their own for a bit. Wait, what? Home alone? Without an adult? A lot can go wrong without grown up supervision. But if it’s done correct ly, experts say, this mile marker can give you and your kids some much needed freedom and feelings of accom plishment. It can also go a long way in establishing trust in your relationship. ‘‘It’s a big step in independence and should be recognized as a milestone,’’ said Patti Cancellier, education director at the Parent Encouragement Program in Kensington, Md. ‘‘Our job as parents is to make our children completely in dependent people.’’ Only a few states specify a mini mum age at which it’s legal to leave kids on their own. For example, in Maryland, it’s 8 as long as there are not younger siblings at home. In Massa chusetts, there is no specific law so such issues are decided on a case by case basis — whether, for instance, a situation triggers concerns about abuse or neglect. The general recommenda tion for age is 11 years old, but it de pends on the child, according to Maria Mossaides, director of the state Office of the Child Advocate. Clearly kids develop emotionally at different rates, making it a highly sub jective matter. A mature 10yearold might be ready for freedom that an im mature 14yearold couldn’t handle. Parenting experts say that once kids HOME ALONE, Page G7
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‘Letters From Baghdad,’ at MFA, shows a woman far ahead of her time By Mark Feeney GLOBE STAFF
Did you ever see “Reds” (1981)? Warren Be atty’s drama about the radical journalist John Reed has an unusual twist. It’s a standard Hol lywood biopic, except that Beatty MOVIES intercuts the narrative with talk inghead interviews with real peo ple who knew Reed. “Letters From Baghdad” does the opposite. It tells the story of Gertrude Bell mostly through her own words — Tilda Swinton reads Bell’s letters — as viewers see period footage and photographs. The twist is that the direc tors, Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, in tercut talkinghead interviews with real people who knew Bell — except that they’re played by actors. It’s “Reds” inside out. Such an odd combination shouldn’t work. Shot in black and white, the interviews are made to look as though they’re roughly contem poraneous with Bell (18581926). The first few times they appear on screen the effect verges on ‘‘LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD,’’ Page G7
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MAKING A SPLASH IN PROVINCETOWN Tennessee Williams festival puts Shakespeare in his place (a water tank, a boat, a park) MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
Gertrude Bell advised Britain’s Foreign Office during WWI and later helped draw Iraq’s boundaries.
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Making a splash at the deCordova
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LINCOLN — What a difference a preposition can make. Lakes and rivers and seas are bodies of water. Bodies in water are people swimming or bathing or otherwise relat PHOTOGRAPHY ing to the element that cov ers 70 percent of the planet’s surface and makes up 60 percent of adult hu mans. “Bodies in Water” is also the name of an exhi bition that runs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum through March 11. Organized by the museum’s Martina Tanga, it consists of 28 photographs drawn from the deCordova’s perma nent collection. Clearly, the museum knows from water. After all, it’s located on Sandy Pond Road. Light likes water, which admits and trans forms it, as earth does not. This means photogra phy likes water, too. Susan Derges’s four photo
STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. ‘Stranger Things’ fan Ethan Gilsdorf inhabits for 24 hours the period in which the show is set — and in which he lived his wonder years
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PROVIDENCE — “Snack Pack One,” I say, pushing the “talk” button. “This is Snack Pack 2. Do you copy?” I hear a crackly reply: “What?” “I said, ‘This is Snack Pack Two.’ Do you copy?” “Yes, I copy.” I’m talking to my wife via oldschool mo bile communication — a walkietalkie. I’m also sweating because I’m riding an old, kidsize chopper bicycle complete with banana seat while dressed in a vintage, checked polyester dress shirt, jeans, a jean jacket, and a red puffer vest like the one Michael J. Fox wore in “Back to the Future.” I’m also lugging a backpack crammed with threering binders and books, and a Pentax 35mm camera dangles from my neck. Why am I dressed like a middleaged Marty McFly? Because I’m sojourning in the “Stranger Things” universe. Besotted by the first season of the smash Netflix series and egged on by the second, which debuts Fri day, I’ve decided to inhabit for 24 hours the
early 1980s, the period in which the show is set. I plan to immerse myself in the era’s pop culture, clothes, and technology — from New Wave and “Flashdance” and “The Breakfast Club” to mix tapes and Dungeons & Dragons. And I’m taking a few other “Stranger Things” devotees (some of them young enough to consider themselves his torical reenactors) along for part of the ride. In case you’re not a fan, “Stranger Things” takes place in an Indiana town be set by strange goingson, including the dis appearance of a kid. The show is in spired by countless Spielbergian movies like “E.T.” and “The Goo nies,” with a healthy dose of “Alien,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Poltergeist,” and Ste phen King novels thrown in. In a world where adults are absent, obliv ious or inept, it’s up to kids — includ ing the bikeriding middle schoolers Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Will, and the telekinetic girl Eleven— to combat the supernatural, enter an alternate dimension called the Upside Down, and save the day. Like the show’s protagonists, I also came
Above left: Ethan Itkin, Anisa Raoof, Ethan Gilsdorf, and Amy Ewen are fans of “Stranger Things” (top). Above right: Gilsdorf rode a banana seat bike during his sojourn in the hit series’ universe.
It’s been a full decade since Leigh Barrett swanned across the stage in Stephen Temperley’s “Souvenir’’ as Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York socialite fabled for her serenely THEATER oblivious, wholly offkey concert re citals in the 1930s and 1940s. Between then and now, a certain Meryl Streep played Jenkins on film. But in an utterly delightful production of “Souvenir’’ at Lyric Stage Company, it takes Barrett no time at all to reinhabit and re claim the role of the wayward warbler. Once again, as in 2007, the invaluable Will Mc Garrahan costars as Cosme McMoon, Florence’s longsuffering piano accompanist — and no one suffers more entertainingly than McGarrahan — and once again Spiro Veloudos is at the helm. “Souvenir’’ unfolds on a set of elegant simplici ty (by Skip Curtiss, who also handled scenic de sign for the earlier Lyric Stage production) in a se ries of flashback scenes narrated by Cosme in the mid1960s, recalling his stint accompanying Flor ence in her annual recitals at the RitzCarlton ‘‘SOUVENIR,’’ Page G4
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ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE Colter Wall is bringing his vintage country — by way of Saskatchewan — to town
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‘For Colored Girls’ still has the power to move By Don Aucoin GLOBE STAFF
It’s been more than four decades since Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf’’ first began speaking to audiences in an ar restingly original, even singular, voice. Today, in an era of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, that voice still has plenty to say. An impassioned new production at Roxbury’s Hibernian Hall makes clear that Shange’s “cho reopoem’’ has lost none of its vitality or its power to move us. Directed by Dayenne C. Byron Walters and choreo graphed by W. Lola Remy, “For Colored Girls’’ features a lu minously expressive, sevenmember cast that includes Wal ters. The production is presented by Praxis Stage, a troupe ‘‘GIRLS,’’ Page G5
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Country singer/corrections officer Mickey Lamantia.
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Meet country’s most lawabiding outlaw By James Sullivan GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
When he was 22, Rhode Island native Mickey Lamantia had the good fortune to open a few shows for Willie Nelson. They played a string of summer tent shows around New England after he got noticed singing a karaoke version of the Randy Travis hit “Forever and Ever, Amen.” Twentyfive years later, Lamantia is just about ready to get that career going. He’s actually been knocking around the Rhode Island bars for years: “I’ve done more oneman shows than I care to remember, some nights to 10 people,” he says. Now, however, at 47, he’s looking to bump his unlikely, lateblooming career as an outlaw country singer into high gear. On Friday he’ll play a record release party at Sons of Liberty, a whiskey distillery and brew pub in South Kings town, R.I. LAMANTIA, Page G3
Annie Gaughen was focused on her YA novels, then diabetes threatened to take her eyesight BY JAMES SULLIVAN GL OBE CORRESPONDENT
Annie Gaughen (left) interviewed author Tamora Pierce during an event at Coolidge Corner Theatre this week and signed copies of her new book. Top: Gaughen’s patchfree eyes.
o celebrate her birthday in November, Annie Gaughen did something uncharacteristic: She splurged. When she and a friend learned that a new block of “Hamilton” tickets were available beginning with a show on Gaughen’s birthday, it felt like a sign. So they bought tickets and went to New York City. While there, Gaughen stopped by her publisher’s office. As it happened, they’d just received the finished copies of her new book, “Reign the Earth,” the first in a new young adult fantasy series called “The Elementae.” “When I went in, it was a perfect November day,” Gaughen recalls. “When I left, it was pouring.” She had to tuck copies of her book — “my beautiful new babies” — under her jacket “and book it five blocks back to my ho tel.” Gaughen, a rising star in the world of YA fiction, has faced plenty of challenges on the road to pursuing her dream. Having earned two master’s degrees, including one in education from Harvard, she still holds a fulltime job for the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, develop ing enrichment programs and diversity and inclusion training — creating, as she explains, “the moments when girls figure out how to be leaders.” More urgently, while writing “Reign the Earth,” her
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FEBRUARY 22 — MAY 20, 2018 Witness the breathtaking detail of this Renaissance master up close and in a new light. Reunited for the first time since the 15th century, explore Fra Angelico's breathtaking visual storytelling in four, newly restored reliquaries.
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Resisting ‘small men doing big and stupid things’ In his first novel, environmentalist Bill McKibben takes an offbeat look at patriotism
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BY JAMES SULLIVAN | GL OBE CORRESPON DENT MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Growing up in the historic town of Lexington, Bill McKibben loved stories of the American Revo lution. As a teenager, he spent his summers leading tours of the battle green. On the job, he proudly wore a tricorner hat. Four decades later, McKibben is still talking about fighting the good fight. His first book, “The End of Nature,” published in 1989, helped introduce Americans to the concept of cli mate change, and most of his work since has amounted to one big, distressing warning about the environmental conse quences of imperialism and exploitation.
For his wife, and Brecht, Shalhoub will make time By Terry Byrne GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
‘Brooke [Adams] and I are happy to have the chance to work together.’ TONY SHALHOUB, on coming to Wellesley on his day off from Broadway to work with his wife on a staged reading of “Fear and Misery in the Third Reich”
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The message may be dire, but he finds the act of protest to be exhilarating. That’s why he wrote “Radio Free Vermont,” his first novel after more than a dozen nonfiction books about global warming, the loss of community, and how to live “lightly” on the land we’ve inhabited. The book, just out and subtitled “A Fable of Resistance,” follows a ragtag band of pranksters who urge their fellow Ver monters to secede from a union that has lost its way. The sto ry, as he writes in an author’s note, is one response to “small
Tony Shalhoub is a little surprised he’s been in such demand. The Emmy Awardwinning actor, best known for TV’s “Monk,” and “Wings,” as well as his many movie appearances, from “Spy Kids” and “Big Night” to “Men in Black” and voice roles in “Cars” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” is currently starring on Broad way in the musical “The Band’s Visit.” He’s al so appearing in a new TV series, “The Marvel ous Mrs. Maisel,” due for release on Amazon Nov. 29. “I thought I’d be less busy at this age,” says Shalhoub, who just turned 64. “But this feels like the right time to be busy, to keep our selves sane.” In addition to performing eight shows a week in “The Band’s Visit,” Shalhoub is spending his day off Monday to join his wife, Brooke Adams, and a cast of 11 other actors in a staged, scriptinhand reading of “Fear and Misery in the Third Reich,” the opener for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s 201718 season. “Brooke and I are happy to have the chance to work together,” says Shalhoub, “and we’ve known Steve [Maler, Commonwealth Shakespeare’s founding artistic director] for a SHALHOUB, Page G7
Music that won’t be typecast
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FLIPPING OUT, FLIPPING OFF From an iPhone glitch to a fireable offense, a review of the week online G2
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Composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol’s new choral piece is titled “DEVRAN.”
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stanbulborn, Bostonbased c o m p o s e r Me h m e t A l i Sanlıkol has resided in the United States for decades, per forming and teaching all over Boston. However, he has never been made to feel like an outsider to the ex tent that he has recently. “I remember being in a cafe in Bel mont with my wife and my daughter,” he said, recalling thencandidate Don ald Trump’s December 2015 call for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the country. “Can you imagine, there were 10 screens in there, and nine of them it was Trump, saying what he’s saying. . . . It’s bizarre because I was here during 9/11, and
even then I didn’t have that kind of feeling.” Spurred on by his frustration with growing hostility toward Muslims in the country and stereotyping of Mus lims in the public consciousness, Sanlıkol set to work on “DEVRAN,” a choral piece that intertwines Renais sance polyphony and Islamic mysti cism. The new work is the centerpiece of two free concerts made possible by a grant from the New England Founda tion for the Arts’s Creative City pro gram, with the first on Nov. 9 at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. In his native Turkey, Sanlıkol was surrounded by diverse Islamic reli gious traditions and practices. In con trast, he said, the most visible images COMPOSER, Page G5
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The Obama presidency through the lens South Dartmouth native Pete Souza agreed to be the 44th president’s photographer under one condition: total access By Joseph P. Kahn GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
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Clockwise from top left: President Obama at the White House in October 2016, the president being photographed by Pete Souza in 2013, Obama and his national security team monitoring the Bin Laden raid in 2011, hearing of the Sandy Hook shooting from adviser John Brennan in 2012, with the first lady heading to the inaugural ball in 2009.
‘In the ‘Heights’ soars at Wheelock By Don Aucoin GLOBE STAFF
With its teeming canvas, in cisive character portraits, and a g e m s t u d d e d s c o r e t h a t blends hiphop THEATER a n d s a l s a w i t h Broadway ballad ry, “In the Heights’’ showcased elements of LinManuel Miranda’s signature style years before he built the blockbuster “Hamilton’’ on the foundation of similar creative compo nents. But even though “In the Heights’’ is probably destined to be remembered as Miran da’s other musical, a fullthrot tle production at Wheelock Family Theatre, superbly di
rected and choreographed by Rachel Bertone, offers a daz zling reminder that this was no mere warmup exercise for Miranda. What is also made clear by the Wheelock production is that any Boston actor who wants to take a crack at play ing Usnavi, a bodega propri etor who is the chief protago nist of “In the Heights,’’ is go ing to have to somehow get past Diego KlockPerez first, because he is claiming virtual ownership of the role, at least locally. The very last word of this m u s i c a l ’s s t i r r i n g f i n a l e is “home,’’ and seldom has
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ete Souza first met Barack Obama, then a newly elect ed US senator from Illinois, in January 2005 while working as a Chicago Tribune photographer. And he covered him for the next two years. When the Obamas moved into the White House in 2009, they asked Sou za to be their official photographer. Souza, who had worked inside the Reagan White House, took the job on one condition: having neartotal access to the president and his family. With that understanding, the South Dartmouth native and Bos ton University grad began capturing moments of behindthe scenes drama and poignancy that had been rarely, if ever, made public during previous administrations. Nearly 2 million pictures later, Souza, 62, had compiled a stunning visual record of the Obama presidency. Organized chronologically, around 300 of his most memorable photos are contained in his new book, “Obama: An Intimate Portrait,” published last week by Little Brown. He will be appearing Nov. 18 at the Harvard Science Center in Cambridge to discuss it. SOUZA, Page G7
The problem posed by a ‘Simpsons’ stereotype By Sonia Rao GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
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Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the bum bling convenience store clerk on “The Simpsons,” has remained unchanged for almost 30 years. The TELEVISION character stereotypes S o u t h A s i a n i m m i grants, and the oddity of his continued ex istence, doubled by the fact that he is voiced by a white actor, Hank Azaria, has largely flown under the radar. Comedian Hari Kondabolu is looking to change that through “The Problem With Apu,” a documentary created by Kondabolu and directed by Michael Melamedoff that premieres Sunday at 10 p.m. on truTV. “I thought the accent was funny, and that [Apu] was a funny character, and
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New love that grew from ashes of tragedy Lucy Kalanithi, whose late husband wrote an acclaimed 2016 memoir of his final years, is now in a relationshiop with John Duberstein, whose late wife wrote an acclaimed 2017 memoir of her final years
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John Duberstein and Lucy Kalanithi at Kalanithi’s home in San Mateo, Calif. Right: The memoirs written by their late spouses, Nina Riggs and Paul Kalanithi.
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AN MATEO, Calif. — The literary pairing was inevitable. “When Breath Becomes Air,” Paul Ka lanithi’s memoir of his final years as he faced lung cancer at age 37, was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim and commer cial success. “The Bright Hour,” Nina Riggs’s memoir of her final years as she faced breast cancer at age 39, was published posthumously in 2017 to critical ac claim and commercial success. The two books were mentioned together in numerous reviews, lists, and conversations. Perhaps less inevitable was that the late authors’ spouses would end up together, too. “I’m still surprised,” said Lucy Kalanithi of her rela tionship with Nina Riggs’s widower, John Duberstein. “I’m surprised by how ridiculous it is and how natural it is at the same time.” Sitting across the kitchen table from Lucy recently at her home, John agreed. “Everything seemed almost bizarrely to fit,” he said. “It was kind of stunning.” The story of Lucy Kalanithi and John Duberstein is both unlikely and destined, the stuff of a romcom. It NEW START, Page G7
She’s got a piece of Joplin’s heart By Jeremy D. Goodwin GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
For Kelly McIntyre, it was just another audition — part of her new routine as a young ac tress trying to get THEATER star ted in New York. The New ton North High School gradu ate showed up first thing in the morning and put her name on the list. And then waited. S h e’d m o v e d t o t h e c i ty shortly after graduating from University of Hartford’s Hartt School six months prior. With out an agent or any other busi ness representation, she quick ly got used to the routine of sit ting around all day at auditions for casting directors to see members of the actors’ union first, before she’d eventually hear her name called.
A lively, stylish ‘Shakespeare in Love’ By Don Aucoin
On this day, McIntyre got the part. Her first big job was a major one: the alternate for the lead in “A Night With Janis Jop lin.” She spelled star Mar y Bridget Davies, who’d been nominated for a Tony Award for the role, on matinees during the show’s first national tour in 2016. McIntyre has since bumped up to the fulltime lead for the show’s second national tour, which visits the Boch Center Shubert Theatre for three per formances beginning Friday. (Katrina Rose Dideriksen is scheduled to play the role in the Saturday matinee.) “It’s going to be crazy,” she says of her homecoming perfor mance. “Some people that are coming to see it haven’t seen MCINTYRE, Page G5
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Kelly McIntyre stars in “A Night With Janis Joplin.”
“Shakespeare in Love’’ actu ally revolves around two ro mances, not just one. At the center THEATER of Lee Hall’s play, now receiving its Ne w E n g l a n d p r e m i e r e a t SpeakEasy Stage Company, is the affair between the besotted Bard and a woman named Vio la de Lesseps, who has dis guised herself as a man so she can perform onstage. But what also courses unmistakably through “Shakespeare in Love’’ is a sheer love of theater and the eccentric, egotistical, obsessive, theatrical people who make it. At one point, Viola, who is winningly played at SpeakEasy by Jennifer Ellis, declares to ‘‘SHAKESPEARE,’’ Page G5
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Jennifer Ellis and George Olesky in SpeakEasy Stage’s “Shakespeare in Love.’’
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J.K. Simmons plays duplicates tracking an assassin in the Starz show
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Fresh off ‘Power of Peace,’ the Isley Brothers come to the Wilbur Theatre
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A THANKSGIVING MEDIA BINGE Tired of endless football games? Sample and savor these movie, TV, and podcast offerings with family and friends.
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THE RADIO ADVENTURES OF ELEANOR AMPLIFIED For those with young kids that you may be trying to pry away from TV cartoons, this is a gem. Follow “Eleanor Amplified,’’ a worldfamous radio reporter, as she goes on adventures around the world to get to the truth of things — and to out smart some bad guys along the way.
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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Watch it with your family when you’re all stuck together over the holidays; watch it alone when your family is away. Just watch it. You’ll see a beautifully acted and heartfelt show about football that isn’t about football at all. Bonus: Great act ing all around, particularly from Connie Britton and the young cast.
36 QUESTIONS Fun, romantic, with just a smidge of melancholy, this “pod cast musical” features Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton as a couple trying to rescue their teetering marriage using 36 questions designed to inspire love. It’s a little rough around the edges, which is to be expected given its relatively experi mental nature, but the verve and charm of the performances more than makes up for everything.
BLEAK HOUSE This PBSBBC production is one of the best Charles Dickens adaptations out there. Written by master classic adapter An drew Davies and built around an epic legal case, the series has everything you’d expect: mystery, romance, comedy, murder, and indelible characters played by a fine cast led by Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock. It’s a thoroughly entertaining eighthour binge.
MAKING OPRAH Go inside the rise of a living legend. WBEZ’s Jenn White ex plores the life and legacy of Oprah Winfrey in this tightly pro duced threepart documentary that lifts you up with its deeply thoughtful touch. HEAVYWEIGHT Regret plays a huge role in this show by the endlessly talented Jonathan Gold stein, which sees the host embark on ca pers to help people grapple with the past. This makes the show not an obvious choice for Thanksgiving. But “Heavy weight’’ is also reflective, funny, compli cated, and, in the end, lifeaffirming.
ROSEANNE A classic network sitcom that’s worth a view or a review — except for the last season, which was abysmal and should be eternally banished to no wheresville. I mention the pioneering series, which is as much about dysfunction and financial struggles as it is about family bonds and foiblefilled behavior, because it’s be ing revived next year in the manner of “Will & Grace.” ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT This influential domestic comedy includes adult gags: It’s hard to find many family series that are appropriate for both ends of the age spectrum. But as it upends everything from taxes to treason and includes one of TV’s bestever mama’s boys (played by Tony Hale) who spent 11 months in the
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MOVIES By Ty Burr GLOBE STAFF
THE DRESSMAKER OK, maybe not for the little kids, but this enjoyably demented fashionista spaghetti western — in which Kate Winslet’s title character takes revenge on the outback town that bullied her — will tickle everyone else. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS Eyepopping martial arts epic with a kickass heroine, choreo graphed with gorgeous overkill by China’s Zhang Yimou. If you and the family haven’t seen “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” start there first. HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE New Zealand director Taika Waititi just grabbed the brass ring with the new “Thor” movie, but his last outing was this hilarious comedyadventure about the friendship between a boy no one wants (Julian Dennison) and cranky old Sam Neill. MOVIES, Page G7
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A ‘Julius Caesar’ that flips the Shakespearean script By Don Aucoin GLOBE STAFF
Before the opening scene of “Julius Caesar’’ at Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the audience is treated to the sight of a body hanging above the stage, punctuated by the percussive THEATER hammering of music over the sound system. Although the corpse is wrapped in black plas tic from head to toe, we have a pretty good idea who it is. Thus does director Bryn Boice establish a foreboding mood while suggesting the patterns of fatefulness that will subsequently run through her darkly compelling if sometimes draggy pro duction of Shakespeare’s tragedy. In this allfemale “Julius Caesar,’’ it is women
who rule, women who map a strategy to elimi nate a figure they view as a tyrant in the making, women who collectively execute that strategy (and that figure), and women who ultimately (to borrow a phrase) “cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war.’’ Arriving at a cultural moment rife with ac counts of male misdeeds, including a photograph of Al Franken treating a sleeping woman as a sex ual prop, there’s an undeniable impact to a “Ju lius Caesar’’ where the women are anything but helpless. In adding gender to the equation, the ASP pro duction also subtracts it, asking us to consider the play’s questions about power, ambition, and violence in a reimagined world where men are ‘‘JULIUS CAESAR,’’ Page G5
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SILENT TREATMENT In winter we spend more time cooped up inside with a constant cacophony. Here are some places and activities to help you hit the mute button.
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Above: Getting away from winter’s noise can reduce stress, and blood pressure. Right: Quiet can be found at the Bates Hall Reading Room at Boston Public Library.
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ur world gets small er and louder in winter. We spend more time cooped up inside with a constant cacophony of blaring TVs and radios, ringing phones, shuffling shoppers, grinding treadmills, and restless children. It’s maddening and potentially unhealthy — with recent studies suggesting that a steady diet of noise can increase blood pres sure, stress, and sleep disorders. It’s time to hit the mute button. Here are some places and ways to find a little peace and quiet.
UNWIND ON A WINDING PATH Labyrinths have been around for more than 4,000 years, usher ing walkers into sessions of quiet reflection. Slow down and follow the winding passages of the Har vard Divinity School labyrinth, lo cated near Andover and Rockefell er halls on the campus green. The design was modeled on the famous 13thcentury labyrinth found on the floor in the nave of Chartres Cathedral in France (www.hds.har vard.edu/lifeathds/religiousand spirituallife/retreatsandquiet places). You’ll likely have it to your self, and simply walking the circuit in silence can be a soothing elixir for your racketinduced angst. An other Chartresinspired installa
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In telling Clapton’s life story, Zanuck returns a favor
Lili Fini Zanuck is an Oscar winning film producer, with “Cocoon,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” and “Mullholland Falls” on her résumé. Eric Clapton is a Gram mywinning guitar god who’s played in the Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominos. Though their names aren’t often associated, they’re longtime friends, and their working relationship stretches back more than a quarter of a century. Clapton scored “Rush,” the 1991 film that marked Za nuck’s debut as a director. She went on to direct the videos for Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” (1992) and “Pilgrim” (1998). It was Clapton who contacted Za nuck when he needed a director for the new documentary “Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars,” which had a limited theatrical run in November and makes its Show time premiere Saturday.
Buskin & Batteau retaking the stage in a healthier state By Dick Trust GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
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David Buskin (left) and Robin Batteau.
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The long, glorious run of folk duo Buskin & Batteau could be coming to an end. On the other hand, if the music gods are agreeable, Bus kin & Batteau could be coming to a listening room near you for years to come. What will determine wheth er David Buskin and Robin Bat teau’s first shows together in nearly four years trigger a tour for the singersongwriters who formed a perfect union in the late 1970s and built a legion of followers that exists to this day? BUSKIN & BATTEAU, Page G3
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A man, and a nation, are put on trial in ‘Death and the Maiden’
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BØRNS brings a host of influences to his show at the House of Blues
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Why you should be watching your kids’ screen time — and your own In ‘The Art of Screen Time,’ Anya Kamenetz discusses the importance of parents modeling a healthy approach to using technology ADOBE
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Adam Trent at the Floating Hospital for Children.
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For four years, Adam Trent performed magic tricks on the Santa Monica Pier. Hoping to hold the tourists’ attention, he “yelled for eight hours a day,” he says. The competition was stiff: the relentless sun, the breakdancers blaring music, the homeless guy who once stole his briefcase. Trent worked nursing homes, birthday parties, college caf eterias. It was all part of the master plan. At age 12, already determined to be a professional magician, he had asked the Las Vegas veteran Mac King for advice. TRENT, Page G4
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Solo, but not really in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ By Don Aucoin GLOBE STAFF
Jo h n U p d i k e f a m o u s l y averred that he focused so in tently and minutely on the ev eryday in his writing in order “to give the mundane its beau tiful due.’’ “Every Brilliant Thing’’ ap pears to harbor a similar ambi tion, although the impetus for its protagonist’s celebration of small quotidian joys has to do with lifeanddeath stakes, not literary matters. The unnamed Narrator in this 70minute solo play, por trayed at SpeakEasy Stage Company by the inimitable Adrianne Krstansky, starts compiling an inventory of life’s ‘‘BRILLIANT,’’ Page G4
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Can’t shake winter blahs? POONEH GHANA
Try goofing off.
Dan Auerbach on stage with the Easy Eye Sound Revue.
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When you’re Dan Auerbach, there are no days off By Robert Steiner GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
There’s no disputing that Dan Auerbach, the powerhouse gui tarist and one half of the Black Keys, is a very busy man. Since taking a welldeserved break from the band in 2015, he’s col laborated with artists from the Pretenders to A$AP Rocky, re corded and toured with psyche delic side project the Arcs, and
last summer released “Waiting on a Song,” a solo album featur ing contributions by John Prine, Mark Knopfler, and many other music legends. All of this, and he also found the time to launch his o w n r e c o r d l a b e l , E a s y Ey e Sound — a productive time for someone technically on vacation. Auerbach is currently on tour with the Easy Eye Sound Revue, AUERBACH, Page G4
TELEVISION By Matthew Gilbert GLOBE STAFF
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Bill Hader plays a hit man who turns to acting in “Barry.”
Hader’s ‘Barry’ a killer comedy
“Barry,” Bill Hader’s excellent new HBO se ries, is a comedy, make no mistake. It’s wry, mostly, but it can also be kooky and flip, as it chronicles a man’s ef forts to transition from violent hit man to LA actor. I laughed out loud a number of times w h i l e w at c h i n g t h e eight episodes of the first season, usually thanks to Henry Win kler as failedactor act ing coach Gene Cous ineau. Sitcom vet Win kler, like Ted Danson in “Bored to Death,” is the show’s seasoned pro; he definitely has not jumped the shark. But there’s a dra matic undercurrent to “Barr y,” which p r e mieres Sunday at 10:30 p.m. after the return of “Silicon Valley.” And
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GO BOWLING Lace up those cool, retro shoes, and hit the lanes. It’s fun; it’s afford able; and anyone can do it (thank you bumpers!). We love the vintage feel of familyowned South Boston Candlepin (6174644858, www.southiebowl.com, $25 per hour, $2.50 shoes), with wood carved ball returns, paper and pen cil scoring, and manual lane resets. They have 20 lanes that you can re serve online. You could also spend lots of time goofing off at King’s Dining & Entertainment in the Sea port District (6174010025, www.kingsde.com, bowling $7$10 per person per game or $15$20 per hour, $5 shoes), with 16 tenpin lanes, arcade games, shuffleboard, foosball, air hockey, and billiards.
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Inside BOTTLES
DANCE
TAKING ON HEAVY HITTERS WITH LIGHT BEER
REFLECTING ON GOLDEN MOMENTS
Night Shift hopes to steal shelf space from Bud and Miller with lowalcohol Nite Lite
Local dance luminaries talk about Alvin Ailey and company on the occasion of a 50thanniversary visit
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eel like you’ve got spring in your step yet? We may have just passed the equinox Tuesday, but things still seem pretty wintry. If you’re starting to show symptoms of too much dark and cold, consider taking some mentalhealth time. It just so happens that March 22 is the unofficial National GoofOff Day and even if you can’t mark this “national holiday’’ on the day itself let us suggest some activities to give you a goofy little break.
KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
TAKE A SUNDAY DRIVE ON THURSDAY
DIANE BAIR FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
When’s the last time you hopped in the car with no par ticular place to go? A ride with no rush, a drive taken for sheer pleasure. Our suggestion: Head north for a slow, sce nic cruise on Cape Ann (the other Cape). Follow Route 1 to Route 128 east, passing the strip malls and office build ings, until you reach the bridge over Annisquam River, a narrow estuary that divides Rockport and much of Glouc ester from the mainland. Follow Route 127, with pretty water views, and consider a stop at Halibut Point State Park for a walk around the quarry and along tidal pools. Back in the car, head into Rockport, and take a selfie next to the famous Motif No. 1 fishing shack, considered the most painted building in the world.
PLAY GAMES You’re locked in a room; the clock is ticking; you have 60 min utes to escape. You and your team mates need to solve the puzzles, find the clues to complete the mis sion, and unlock the door. You have become an action hero. Sound like fun? For an hour, you’ll think of nothing except the game at hand. No wonder escape rooms are all the rage. Check out Trapolo gy, ranked as one of the country’s top escape rooms (8572852085, www.trapologyboston.com, $30). The current themes are the Drunk Tank, the Hustler, and the Retreat. None is easy; all offer immersive, pressurepacked fun. GOOF OFF, Page G5
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