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...novel’s principle characters include Nick and Arthur, an interracial gay couple, Rosa, who has escaped from war-torn Guatemala, and Child, who is entangled with the foster care system. Now an Arlington resident, Hindley calls her novel “a Harvard Square story.” The novel takes the audience to a number of locations on the Harvard campus, including Memorial Hall...
...dream escapes for Ramn, wondrous flights in which he soars through the skies while operatic arias play. On the other hand, the film, based on a true story, is always firmly grounded in reality. Ramn is tended by his brother's family and a local woman named Rosa (Lola Dueas), who finds a focus for her messy life when she, too, falls in love with him. All of them keep reminding us that the big life-and-death questions this movie raises--and very sensibly answers--have human dimensions and practical consequences. The result is a lovely...
...group knew what their audience had been waiting for. The completely improvised set list stuck to the hits, especially heavy on songs from 1988’s Surfer Rosa and 1989’s Doolittle, widely considered their creative peak...
...city is also known for its clubs, of course, and options abound beyond the famous Second City for comedy and Kingston Mines or Green Dolphin Street for jazz. Natives flock to Rosa's Lounge, a blues haven northwest of downtown run by Tony Rosa and his mother. You may not end up dancing in the streets, as Matthew Broderick's character did, but a few hours of R. and R. in Chicago will certainly feel like...
...Mandela’s limited means of keeping hope alive during his 27-year captivity, when he and fellow prisoners continued with such small acts of hope as passing from cell to cell a forbidden scrap of newspaper that an absent-minded guard had dropped on the floor. Or Rosa Parks’ long-time involvement in local civil rights projects long before her famous refusal to move to the back...