Wednesday 30th
Banana-rama! No, we’re not talking about the 80′s girl group whose “Cruel Summer” will be dragged out any day now, nor late spring’s 1,000-calorie fruit smoothies. We’re simply trying to make some sense out of tonight’s fruity nightlife menu, beginning with a party for a book called Cranberry Queen, a novel by a Read More
Michael Hoffman’s William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream materializes on the screen as a mélange of miscalculations. Let me count the ways. First, the colorful hyperrealism of the Tuscan settings for the Athens scenes makes the murky fairyland habitats manufactured in Rome’s Cinecittà studio look more lugubrious than liberating. Then there are the obtrusive anachronisms Read More
Whenever Time magazine runs one of its “Is Feminism Dead?” cover stories (there have been no less than 119 articles in the magazine sticking pins in feminism during the last 25 years), you can be sure we are in for a resurgence of feminism-even though the f-word itself may be out of style. It’s not Read More
