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Like the College’s English Department, the Extension School’s creative writing program covers a wide range of genres??from playwriting and memoir to novels...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Expos, Extended | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...would like Weirdo to be a home for people who like weird stuff, who have eclectic taste and are curious about new sounds,” Sawyer said. With Japanese psychedelic rock blazing in the background, the store’s shelf labels reveal a wide span of genres??including world, classical, and rock and noise. “The name is Weirdo for a very good reason,” Sawyer said. Following the demise of various record stores in Cambridge—including Harvard Square retailers HMV in 2003 and Tower Records in 2006?...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Weirdo Records’ Opens to Fanfare | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...directorBilly Wilder,” Furtado told the audienceafter screening one of his films inperson at the Harvard Film Archive lastweekend. “I read all about him, and thenrealized he had been inspired by directorErnst Lubitsch. I traced these influencesall the way back to Shakespeare, who alsomixed genres??drama and romance,comedy and tragedy. They weren’t separatethings for him.”Furtado pays homage to the dramatistin his films. In “Houve,” there isa scene in which one of the characters,Juca, wears a shirt with...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brazillian Filmmaker Discusses Craft | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...radio plays and one a television piece, each adapted for the theater and modified to include an original score. Despite the Beckett estate’s reputation for opposing all changes to the playwright’s works, Scanlan obtained unique permission to “jump genres?? as well as to engage Martin Pearlman, locally renowned music director of Boston Baroque, as a composer. “They trust Bob, as they have worked so much with him,” Pearlman says. Though the two radio plays already featured music, Scanlan always thought it didn?...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beckett Storms Harvard Stage | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...among them). The film stands as an homage to a time when grindhouses served as the unofficial outposts for a select set of disgruntled adolescents ill-served by the Hollywood studio system and looking for an alternative. An alternative which they found in low budget flicks that spanned several genres??kung fu, horror, and car-chase, being just a few—which were played incessantly at the grungiest of local theaters.The plot of “Planet Terror” involves zombie-producing toxic gas (just go with it) released by renegade military gang...

Author: By Aleksandra S Stankovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grindhouse | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

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