Arts & Culture
The Playbill cover from “August: Osage County,” a production by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company that opened on Broadway at the ...
Freud exhibits at MoMa
Lucian Freud—grandson of Sigmund—is a painter who deals in human imperfection. In the “Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings” exhibition, on ...
Murakami imbues ordinary lives with haunting resonance
First translated and published in English in mid-2006, Haruki Murakami’s latest book of short stories, “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is ...
David Albright speaks in CHUM lecture
The Center for Humanities commenced its Spring Lecture Series, “Revision and Translation,” on Monday, Jan. 23 with Harvard University’s Ernest ...
Movie Review: Cloverfield
From television producer J.J Abrams, television director Matt Reeves and television writer Drew Godard comes the fairly hair-raising monster mash ...
This spring Second Stage mixes divergent subjects and styles
It’s a small underground room guarded by an ancient stuffed animal of ambiguous species (wild boar, perhaps?). The sound-proof doors ...
The Cine-Files
This week in the film series.
Argus staff picks: Best albums of ’07
Architecture in Helsinki, “Places Like This” Battles, “Mirrored” Dirty Projectors, “Rise Above” Feist, “The Reminder” Jens Lekman, “Night Falls Over ...
Five tragically overlooked records of 2007
Feu Therese, “Ca Va Cogner” If you're as tired as I am with Montreal bands that don't even know how ...
Sneak preview: “The Golden Compass”
It is a tired axiom that a film adaptation will never be as good as the novel it is based ...
