arts

Joel Brown reports the Boston Art Dealers Association now has a shuttle between "the Newbury Street and South End gallery districts," at least, on the first Saturday of every month.

Steven Fales was the model Mormon boy: an Eagle Scout, international missionary, BYU graduate, married in the Salt Lake Temple, and father of two children. But what happens when the model finds himself in “reparative therapy” for "same-sex attraction"…and fails?

With today's front page, the Herald launches a jihad against the Mass. Cultural Council.

At the Coolidge Corner Theater today, Eve Ensler of “The Vagina Monologues” fame read from her new book “Insecure at Last: Losing it in our Security Obsessed World”. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review summarizes the new work saying, “Ensler stitches together vignettes from her visits to locales where women are coping with the aftermath of calamities both natural -- the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami and post-Katrina New Orleans - and man-made - Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.”

Ensler’s stage training punctuated the reading, particularly a vignette detailing a Katrina survivor who, after tending to her son’s severed fingertip for seven hours, waded with the wounded boy in neck deep, sewage and chemical filled water to New Orleans’s convention center. The survivor recounts:

”At some point, we decided to stay outside the center. Then someone said water was coming. Everyone panicked and started running. There was a stampede. Knocked down the elderly. I thought my leg was broken. Military suddenly arrived in a truck. The National Guard. I have no idea how many there were of them. They jumped out and put rifles to our heads, ‘Motherfuckers! Bitches!’ they said. ‘Lay down. Don’t move, motherfuckers.’ We lay face down on the asphalt.

“I still have nightmares, all these months later.”