Entertainment

Blog interview: Keith Lockhart

adamg — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:37:58 -0400

Joel Brown interviews the Pops conductor on the upcoming EdgeFest, which this year features Natalie Merchant and Amanda Palmer:

... I was vaguely familiar with the Dresden Dolls' work, and I'm thinking "Pops Goes Goth" was not a combination I ever saw happening. But as I listened to her solo stuff, it's really, really interesting, very lyric-driven, very honest, and very original, and that's what we're looking for. We're not looking for people to fill some sort of genre. We're looking for artists with something to say. In a way the disparity in people's minds of Amanda Palmer vs. the Boston Pops is going to produce some interesting results. ...

Bloggers: See a Huntington Theatre show for free

adamg — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:02 -0400

If you agree to write about it (good, bad or indifferent).

It's the Ennio show on Tuesday, May 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. The first 10 bloggers to send their blog info to ennioblog@gmail.com will get a ticket.

Conflict of interest note: The Huntington is an advertiser here and across the Boston Blogs Network.

Who greenlighted this?

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:58:50 -0400

Spatch struggles to find the words to describe Broadway in Boston's announcement that one of its upcoming shows will be "Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage:"

The Classic Story.

The Classic Story.

THE CLASSIC STORY.

I cannot write this in any more caps. ...

Boston to get another TV drama series?

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:26:00 -0400

With Donnie Wahlberg, to boot, playing a war hero turned DEA agent, Joel Brown reports.

Drop this

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:01:13 -0400

Aaron Donovan photographed Al Barr of the Dropkick Murphys at a recent Longwood Medical Area rally by the SEIU.

Enemy of those who make him an enemy!

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:19:18 -0400

Why, it's Boston Blackie:

Enough with Mall Cop already, this is what we'd want to see filmed

adamg — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:49:27 -0400

Beantown Bloggery stumbles on a Dunkin' Donuts commercial being filmed downtown.

If they hold a dance on the Common but nobody hears it, did it happen?

adamg — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:24:14 -0400

Silent Rave on Boston Common - Friday, May 16, 7:19 to 11:19 p.m.

A Silent Rave, or Mobile Club, or Silent Disco, is a simple concept. Hundreds, hopefully thousands, of people from any background of life turn up in a public place at a pre-arranged time, turn on their Walkmans, CD players, and iPods and dance freely to whatever music they choose to listen to!

Via Litter Ladder.

Cool idea has annoying Web site

adamg — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:28:07 -0400

Art House Boston sounds like an interesting idea - use for-sale houses as impromptu art galleries - but, geez, guys, just because you're frou-frou doesn't mean you have to put up a Web site with a hidden toolbar that only reveals itself when you accidentally figure out you have to mouse over random objets that have absolutely nothing at all to do with the menu items.

Quick! Find the "About Us" link on this page!

This concludes this test of the Grumpy Web Guy system. Since this was an actual Web emergency, you were instructed to find a Web site with toolbars you can actually see.

Via LimeDuck, who likes the idea and didn't say anything about the Web site.

Content to leave the past in the past

adamg — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:03:58 -0400

Pahkcah02 admits she was a pre-pubescent NKOTB groupie, but writes she's content to miss their reunion tour.