Pieces

Black and White

See it in black and white. Kera Walker's recent installation in the Carpenter Center for the Arts appears in conjunction with Harvard's Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke: A Series of Conversations on the Use of Black Stereotypes in Contemporary Visual Practice." Walker's exhibit consists of silhouttes "Presenting Negro Scenes" that span the walls of the lobby.

Erin Go Braugh

In a town where it seems everyone who's from here is really from Ireland, where the basketball team (the basketball team?!) is called the Celtics and where the world's largest St. Patrick's Day celebration (out of Ireland) is held, you know you'd miss out if you didn't check out some of the St. Patty's Day celebration. Just for starters, Ireland's most mainstream and highly-acclaimed traditional music group The Chieftans will be performing at Symphony Hall tonight. On the theatre front, look for Pulitzer winner Frank McCourt (of Angela's Ashes fame) and his hit play The Irish... And How They Got That Way and for brand-new Copley Theatre's A Portrait of Oscar Wilde. And every pub--every pub!--has something planned. If nothing else, just go downtown. (And don't forget to wear green.)

TheaterWatch

TheaterWatch is a non-profit student organization computer device devoted to determining what should and should not be watched and internalized of the selection presented each season. This spring, TheaterWatch was solicited for the following suggestions. Hello, I am TheaterWatch. This season, look forward to pressing the # key. Hee-hee. That's right. The spring shall bring #, a play co-written by J. Eric Marler (GSAS) whom we once saw wowing audiences from his desk at the pit of the valley created by stacked rafters in Leverett Old Library. Wry, clever, fresh humor and a ruthlessly deadpan delivery marked Posthumous Improvisations, his one-man show of trials and tribs. Will # live up to this? Stay tuned. I am TheaterWatch. Thank you. I am TheaterWatch.

More from the Coen Brothers, eh?

The recent new Coen Brothers' movie of course brings us to the question of the new national underground lingo necessary eventually to replace African-American dialects, in everything from gangsta to funk to run-of-the-mill infusions. Fargo gave us the possibility of Minnesotan, but the limited variation--a few maple-leaf reminscent phonetic twists and an assortment of pause formations--obviously means it won't pan out. '80s surfer lingo didn't last too long, nor can computerese. So, geeoun before the geeoun's through, and I think latinitata will res out. Nice.