HomeFront: All hail Dionne Warwick, Shakespeare on the Common returns, dysfunctional TV families
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated May 7, 2021, 8:55 a.m.
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Dionne Warwick is planning two Mother s Day concerts online.
Welcome back to HomeFront, where weâre slowly shaking off a year-plus of âGroundhog Dayâ-style sameness and reacquainting ourselves with the concept that big news can be good. Vaccination numbers climbing, Free Shakespeare on the Common back on the calendar, and especially the return of Broadway â all big, all good! For the scoop on all kinds of diversions, keep reading.
POP MUSIC: At 80,
Dionne Warwick has embraced livestreaming â sheâs performing two Motherâs Day concerts. She wanders memory lane in an entertaining Q&A with the Globeâs Christopher Muther, touching on her back catalog as well as Twitter fame (âI say things that give food for thoughtâ). Of Ego Nwodimâs uncanny take on
The PRC pops up at CambridgeSide
By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated May 5, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
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Bruce Myren, Black Lives Matter, Robert Frost Trail, 2020Bruce Myren/courtesy Gallery Kayafas
CAMBRIDGE â Thereâs a rather marvelous photograph of Ansel Adams at work. Taken by Cedric Wright, in 1942, it shows Adams standing with his tripod and camera on a specially made platform atop a Ford station wagon. The wagon is a classic âwoodie.â Visible in the background is Yosemiteâs Half Dome.
Itâs a reminder that even Adams, the most famous photographic presenter of nature at its most pristine, was an emissary from the manmade world. Or as the curator John Szarkowski once wrote, âAdams was happiest in the high mountains, where he lived, for a while, on tinned hash, bourbon whiskey, and visions.â Only one of those three items naturally occurs in the great outdoors.
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