Stacy A. Porter
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New Books
The Devil’s LardeR by Jim Crace Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux,165 pp.; $20 Being Dead, British author Jim Crace’s
Memories of Impermanence
A quarter of the way through Borrowed Finery, novelist Paula Fox’s new memoir, the author’s father makes a fitting observation.
New Albums
Stereolab Sound-Dust (Elektra) U.K.-based Stereolab has always been hard to peg. Purposefully fashioning kitsch out of electronic and traditional instrumentation,
The ICA Goes Global
The interplay between the individual and society, between self-definition and collective identity, and between cultural standards and human norms has
Fitter, Happier
By STACY A. PORTER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Just when it seemed Radiohead had cornered the market for man-against-machine concept albums, Canadian
EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOO
DAVE GROHL IS A BIG TEASE. With a mop of dark shaggy hair covering his face and tight black pants
Foo Fighting: A preview of the upcoming Foo Fighters concert
In an age where popular music is becoming increasingly polarized between the catchy, navely sexual tunes of Britney and Christina
Maggi Brown
Long a staple of Boston's art scene, Maggi Brown probes the limits of her own consciousness in a new exhibit