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Details like working light bulbs on the tops of mannequins and an old-fashioned lamppost extending from one corner add character to the expansive stage. In one scene, Benjamin and Girl come across a carnival and actors situated above the stage pour down hundreds of brightly-colored balls while a previously unnoticed ring of red and orange Christmas lights comes alive along the balcony...

Author: By Nicholas D. Cuse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Donahue Elevates 'Stairs' to New Heights | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

This vibrant re-envisioning of “Stairs” takes a lot of risks, yet nearly all of them pay off. The freshness and originality that is consistently present in the production is able to make an old and somewhat obscure play feel relevant and new again...

Author: By Nicholas D. Cuse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Donahue Elevates 'Stairs' to New Heights | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

Despite the scholarly bent of “Frame by Frame,” a few families were in attendance. Cambridge mother Alix Kepner had taken her nine year-old daughter Gemma to see the exhibition. “We’re big Pixar fans,” explained Kepner when asked about what had brought them to the Carpenter Center. Talking about her favorite film, “Going Up,” Gemma said, “I liked the script.” When her mother commented that the film in question did not feature...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A 'Frame by Frame' History | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...work, but these are exceptions to the forward-moving, electric sound of the rest of “Odd Blood.” This feeling of forwardness is largely due to a change in percussion use from “Cymbals.” The band has eschewed their old tricks of changing rhythm and meter for drumbeats that are consistent throughout almost every track, which avoids monotony and instead highlights their apt use of electronic melodies and driving vocals...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yeasayer | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...called "scorpion tree" had been the work of cowboys, paleontologist Rex Saint Onge immediately knew that the tree was carved by Indians when he stumbled upon it in the fall of 2006. Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County, the centuries-old gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres. "I was really the first one to come across it who understood that it was a Chumash motif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tree Carving in California: Ancient Astronomers? | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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