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Number of Articles: 6
First Article: May 2, 2001
Latest Article: November 13, 2002
THE LIST
November 13, 2002
SELECT FLICKS Cinemark at Hampshire Mall (587-4233) “8 Mile” is reviewed in this issue. “Abandon” is the latest shark from Hollywood’s teen thriller pool. This time around, “Dawson’s Creek” darling Katie Holmes stars as Catherine Burke, a co-ed trying to wrap up a stressful year-completing her thesis, exams and interviews for grad school and jobs. As if this weren’t enough to make a girl scream, a dreamy detective (Benjamin Bratt) starts snooping around, trying to dig up more dirt on the dis
THE LIST
October 10, 2002
EXHIBITIONS The works of architect Jeff Slomba will be displayed in an exhibition entitled “stilted.” The word implies a forced formality that characterizes the NYU graduate’s works. Slomba combines various materials and disjointed, irrational imagery to suggest forces of erosion working upon his structures. (Through Nov. 7, Central Gallery at UMass.) SELECT FLICKS Academy of Music Theatre (584-8435) Steve Coogan plays Tony Wilson, the manager of the Sex Pistols and the man behind the scene
THE LIST
March 4, 2002
EXHIBITIONS Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts celebrates the collection of Mexican folk art by Dwight W. Morrow 1895 and his wife Elizabeth Cutter, amassed during Morrow’s tenure as United States Ambassador to Mexico in the 1920s. (Mead Art Museum, through April 21.) SELECT FLICKS Academy of Music Theater (584-8435) The French import “The Brotherhood of the Wolf” (set in 1765 during the reign of King Louis XV) tells the tale of a scientist sent on a mission to captu
THE LIST
October 22, 2001
“The Myth and Madness of Ophelia” is a collection of over 60 representations of Shakespeare’s Ophelia through various media, such as paintings, photographs, prints and movies. (Opens Fri. and runs until Dec. 16, Mead Art Museum. Opening lecture on Fri. at 4:30 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium. Free.) SELECT FLICKS Academy of Music Theater (584-8435) Mickey Rooney’s appallingly racist portrayal of a Japanese man aside, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is pure Audrey Hepburn magic. And yes, George Pepard is H
THE LIST
September 25, 2001
“Markus Raetz,” sponsored by the Art Club of Chicago, is a multimedia exhibition by one of Switzerland’s most respected artists. The exhibit will showcase a variety of Raetz’s work, including figurative, still-life and landscape subjects exploring perspective, optical illusions and more. (Tues. thru Fri., 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 2 to 5 p.m. Show runs through Dec. 14. The University Gallery at the UMass Fine Arts Center. Call 545-3670.) SELECT FLICKS Academy of Music Theater (584-8
The List
May 2, 2001
“Locally Grown,” featuring Pioneer Valley subjects photographed by Jerome Liebling, explores the life of the fields and the labors of those who tend them. (Runs in Mead Art Museum through July 29, Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free.) FLICKS Academy of Music Theater (584-8435) “The Widow of St. Pierre” is about a fisherman (Emir Kusturica) who has been sentenced to die by guillotine. In the meantime, he reforms his actions, causing the town to rethink its harsh punishment. Cin