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Feaster, like your typical economics concentrator at Harvard, had a job offer as an equities analyst waiting for her at Merrill Lynch in New York after graduation. But she instead decided to postpone one promising career to begin another when she was drafted fifth overall in the 1998 WNBA Draft by the Los Angeles Sparks...
This first feature by Green, just 25, will evoke memories of David Lynch's Blue Velvet (the rapturous weirdness of small-town life) and Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (a tough girl's narration, set to gorgeous cinematography). But this kid doesn't need famous parents. It stands, soars on its own. It moves to a seductive rhythm and vision. And it has, like each of the children in it, a restless beauty that haunts their lives and the viewer's heart...
...lack of big names on the Boston concert calendar this year compared to previous years. Fortunately, there's a host of talented lesser-known faces arriving. Elliott Smith comes into town tomorrow, while Lockgroove, who headlined last year's Crimson-Advocate band showcase Blast!, performs at the Wheeler-Lynch Gallery. On Monday, alt-metal band Slipknot comes to Avalon while sensation Jill Scott sings at the Paradise. Jill Scott is, of course, part of that same amazing revival of Philly R&B and soul that produced the Roots. (Indeed, Scott wrote the Roots' slinky hit "You Got Me.") Next Friday...
Children throw stones. Mobs lynch. Fish gotta swim. It takes grownups to make peace. It is time for grownups to take the stones out of the hands of children, to get the mobs out of the streets, and the idea of a negotiated peace back in motion...
Time moves backward when it is time to move on. The dynamics may change, these murderous passions may exhaust themselves. (It is hard to believe that anyone's sense of injured honor would be appeased by joining a lynch mob to commit the most primitive of murders. But victims feel themselves to be justified in anything that they do.) In any case, maybe peace will become possible again after this fire has blown itself out. If it does blow itself...