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Abby Barnes' hand shoots up nearly every time her teacher asks the 19 squirmy first-graders in her suburban Philadelphia public school to match letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make. Sitting up front with her pinchable cheeks framed by long blond hair, Abby, 7, looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer. But every time the teacher calls on her, Abby freezes. Her face tightens. She strains to respond. And even if an answer manages to get past her lips, her words are inaudible. She's effectively mute throughout the school...
...witnessed tool-kit-toting truancy, endless enthusiasm, deficient dancing, frustrating follies, ceaseless commitment, and witty wording. An alphabet of alliteration can’t quite spell out the experience. I’ve loved it and I’ve hated...
...just one problem: much of the film’s message is absolutely absurd.For those of you who have been living under a rock in outer space, “Rent” is a movie about young artists living in New York’s Alphabet City at the beginning of the 1990s. It starts with the diverse cast explaining that it doesn’t want to pay its rent for the previous year, the next year, or, presumably, any year after that. The action accelerates as the protagonists battle Benny, a former friend who has sold...
...made another horror film. It was very discouraging. Something that you should really ask me is how does one get here. Students are fed this lie that life is linear and that you have to go through all the letters in order to get to the end of the alphabet. Life is totally serendipitous. It’s made up of wonderful moments when crossroads meet in front of you and you have to find a way to follow your own heart. You get to junior year and everyone’s worrying about what they’re going...
...will be joined by upstarts Five Star Outlaw, The Thickness, a?nd the Adam Sloane Trio. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $8. (CEJ)Monday, Oct. 31Bloodhound Gang. The Crimson does not condone anything the Bloodhound Gang does, including extraordinarily inappropriate uses of the NATO phonetic alphabet, but it will admit to having spent most of its junior high years listening to “The Bad Touch.” Opening are Electric Eel Shock, Program the Dead, and Cold Read. Avalon Ballroom, 15 Landsdowne St., Boston. 6 p.m. $15 advance, $17 day of show. (BBC)Cover Bands...