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Break out the letter sweaters! It’s time for the annual spandex fest on the Charles, complete with pretzel stands to get your eat on, Reunion Village to get your prep school alumni contribution on, and Row-a-Palooza to get your jam on to bands Nada Surf and Arrested Development. Oh, and there’s rowing...
Despite the policy arguments about media relations, this film is no wonk-fest; despite the condemnations of the monarchy, Frears creates recognizably human characters out of everyone but Prince Phillip. It is a continually involving look at the human costs associated with public service and experience, whether one chooses a post (Blair) or is born into it (Elizabeth...
...were easy to pick out, and anyone with a brain stem should try and catch each when they next come through the Boston area code.Number one, by far, were recently-reunited-after-forty-years Brazilian legends Os Mutantes.They got top billing on the second day of the two-day-fest, which was exactly where they belonged. More than a few spectators probably had no idea who they were listening to. Of course, that didn’t prevent hipsters with no knowledge of the band from talking about how “influential” they were.But Os Mutantes transcended...
...delivering six Charles Eliot Norton lectures on cultural issues, culminating next week. The Norton lectures are rare events, and have been given in the past by the likes of Bernstein and Lionel Trilling. Stay tuned, because next week, Arts will be taking an exclusive look at both the Bernstein fest and the Barenboim visit. Barenboim’s final two lectures will take place in the Paine Concert Hall today and on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 pm, both days. No tickets are required. For more information, call 617-495-2791. —Abe J. Riesman
...DIED. Joachim Fest, 79, German author of the psychologically incisive, globally acclaimed 1973 work Hitler; in Kronberg-im-Taunus, Germany. Fest shed light on the Third Reich by examining its leadership in dispassionate, vivid detail. He attributed Hitler's rise not primarily to economics, as many German historians have, but to the abdication of moral responsibility by educated Germans...