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...that elevates dinner at Bel Canto from an evening meal to a night at the opera, but the food plays a mean second fiddle. Bistro classics include a beautifully caramelized shallot tatin and dill-rich salmon gravadlax, king prawn and black pearl scallop skewers, and hot chocolate fondant with violet ice cream. Still, the most delicious parts of the meal come with a side of virtuoso cadenzas...
...school for it, didn’t study it. I just found people who were thoughtful and who knew a lot about film and I listened to them,” Haney says. 13 movies later, the writer/producer’s new feature film, “American Violet,” combines political and social advocacy with old-fashioned dramatic storytelling, two cornerstones of Haney’s approach to film.Though he founded his first start-up, Fuel Tech, when he was an 18-year-old freshman in Straus, his film career took years to begin. His first...
...gives the other half to Detective Ali Lateef, who’s leading the subway-centric manhunt. The novel is ripe with divergent identities: Will and his alter ego, “Lowboy”; his mother Yda and Lowboy’s name for her, “Violet;” Lateef and his given name, “Rufus White.” The alternating perspectives of the narrative themselves constitute a sort of double identity, mirroring the dynamic between the world of institutions above ground and the dank, chaotic world of the subway, where Will feels...
...probe Will’s psyche from a number of different angles without having to stop and reflect, Victorian novel-style. Lateef, on the other hand, is a stock character; the spiritually exhausted public servant, who experiences a mid-career crisis of confidence and develops an inappropriate affection for Violet Heller. Somehow it seems like this is supposed to illustrate the novel’s metaphysical import. It just doesn’t really work...
...Leavitt and Peirce] never changes, even without people smoking inside.” says Robin Lapidus, director of marketing and events for the Harvard Square Business Association. “The minute you open that door, the smell of fine tobacco and cigars and violet gum and colognes just waft out onto the street...