Tag: Vol. 35 No. 36

In what is perhaps the country’s best improv city, this is perhaps the best ongoing improv show, long-form or otherwise. T.J. and Dave hasn’t changed much since its debut in February 2002: same stage, time slot, and price, same opening Ike Reilly songs and introductory caveat, “Trust us, this is all made up.” There’s still […]

A movie of Al Gore lecturing on global warming may sound dull beyond measure, but this documentary by Davis Guggenheim is hugely dramatic, arguing that the world’s governments have little more than a decade to avert a planetary disaster. Speaking to a small audience in a black-box theater with a giant screen behind him, Gore […]

Jazz vocalist Ilona Knopfler throws together an odd assortment of ingredients on the opening track of her 2005 album, Live the Life (Mack Avenue). “I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song,” is a hymn written by gospel pioneer Thomas A. Dorsey, but instead of the church choir you might expect, […]

“Hideous Transformations,” a show organized by Synapse Arts Collective, isn’t nearly as dire as it sounds. Subtitled “Strange Tales of the Ordinary,” it highlights the oddity of often-overlooked activities and experiences. Synapse artistic director Rachel Damon presents a reworked piece from 2003, Language Body, set to her complex, layered score of involuntary sounds: sighing, snoring, […]