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...fledgling English speaker, peculiar and sometimes puzzling. She is still thankfully in ownership of these gifts, singing lines like “Why wait for later? / I’m not a waiter” and using words like “lycanthropy” (destined to be among the most-searched definitions on Google this month). But the album is mostly uninspired and frenetically overproduced. Shakira manages just barely to keep afloat over the wash of clubby electro-pop, but her barge is not a secure one and tends to sink...

Author: By Michael A. Yashinsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shakira | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Paint for Peace, another effort between Art Street and the City of Boston, promotes peace in neighborhoods affected by gun violence among children and teenagers. Mayor Menino first outlined the problem to Guillemin three years ago; Guillemin then rallied artists and sent them into Boston’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The artists worked with children in after-school programs to create banners and flags that publicly displayed statements about the good parts of their neighborhoods. They also painted doves of peace on sidewalks where killings had occurred. The effort reached its peak two years ago when 1,200 schoolchildren...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking Artwork into the Streets | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...Golden Calf” alternates points of view among a wide array of people—artists, office clerks, riddlers, poets, madmen, accountants, Catholic priests, authors and photographers—while concentrating its plot on the work of a band of thieves. The story focuses on four of these thieves; they are conspiring to rob and bring to ruin their associate, the malevolent Korieko, who, it just so happens, is a secret millionaire—an “underground Rockefeller...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Translation of a Soviet Touchstone | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...conveniently forgets them, summarizing the next four years of Jenny’s life in a clichéd voice-over that almost kills the movie. Still, while it lasts, the film is breathtaking, an achingly beautiful tribute to a half-imagined time when even the most devious among us knew how to cut a rug and fall in love...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'An Education' | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...also a separate program of tastings with vintners in person). In the Wine Journey Room, you use a prepaid card to help yourself from an Enomatic rack holding 44 wines, available in tasting, half or full measures. There are also 200 wines available by the bottle, with great rarities among them. (See reviews of 50 American wines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wine Lessons Down Under | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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