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Allison Cole's "Never Ending Summer" (Alternative Comics; 48 pp.; $11.95), just released, marks her graphic novel debut. As is the DIY style, the author focuses on her own life and relationships, putting it onto paper with a beguiling simplicity. Set during a summer between semesters in Providence, Rhode Island, Allison works at a comic store and collects LPs. Asher, her boyfriend, has left for a two-week trip. Suddenly she gets a phone call. He wants to go back to Australia for the rest of the summer - where his old girlfriend lives. Uh oh. The rest of the book...
Rodowick’s appointment as VES’s second full professor in film studies, after a three-year search, comes at a critical time, as the department readies itself to debut an undergraduate concentration track in film studies this fall with an eye toward an eventual graduate program in the field...
...Chicago tenement at the dawn of the civil rights era. The revival of A Raisin in the Sun that opened last week on Broadway is groundbreaking in a way more suited to our times. It stars a hip-hop impresario with scant acting experience, making his Broadway debut: Sean (P. Diddy) Combs...
DIED. HUBERT SELBY, 75, whose 1964 debut novel Last Exit to Brooklyn was met equally with shock and praise and was made into a 1989 film; of pulmonary disease; in Los Angeles. The book brutally depicted the seedy underbelly of 1950s Brooklyn as a wasteland prowled by gangs, prostitutes and transvestites...
...Harvard community, one less concerned with plumbing deep philosophical arguments than with displaying Harvard students’ immense reservoir of musical talent, which is often below undergrads’ radar screens. It has pulled off its biggest attempt yet with a compilation CD, titled Primum, which will debut at a release party at Boston’s Roxy Club...