Archive for May, 2009

21st Century Breakdown: Green Day Gives Us A Soundtrack For The Summer
May 21, 2009

Just to cement my standing of being a tributary along the pop culture mainstream, I don’t have a thing to say about last night’s celebrated American Idol finale (a yawn and a scratch doesn’t count).  I’d rather check in on a more ambitious and less manufactured development in the music world: the return of Green [...]

Boston’s “Spring Awakening” Keeps All Its Promises
May 4, 2009

Spring can be such a fickle season in New England.  The glorious warmth and sunshine of one day, pushed out by bone chilling rain the next.  There is no such inconsistency with the national tour of the musical “Spring Awakening” as it opens its first Boston run at The Colonial Theatre.  It is thrilling, brave, [...]