Guided by Beckett From the Grave
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The director Deborah Warner and her longtime collaborator, the actress Fiona Shaw, are bringing a production of Samuel Beckettâs âHappy Daysâ to New York.
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"Pegasus Descending" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 356 pages, $26) &#151; James Lee Burke
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âIn the Shadow of the Moonâ is a morale booster. The power of its archival images hasnât diminished with familiarity.
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In the latest twist in the BTK serial-murder mystery, Wichita police have asked for the public&#39;s help in finding missing links between one of the killer&#39;s poems, a former Wichita State University professor and a grim folk song. In a brief ...
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Through the murk and gloom of âThe Abandoned,â a mystery emerges: Why didnât this go straight to DVD?
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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Matthew O'Phinney had the chance to present the Zend Framework during a meeting he attended of his local PHP user group (BostonPHP) as a part of a series their doing.   Horde was also represented as part of the evening's fare. It was the first time I've attended a UG, so I got the double whammy of that and being a presenter. Oh, make it a triple whammy -- Boston is a 3+ hour drive from the Burlington, VT area I now call home.   He mentions a talk that Chuck Hagenbuch (of the Horde project) gave on the current state of the project and a bit about his presentation (including some portions that pointed out problems with the Zend_Db component). You can check out this and the rest of the contents of his presentation here [pdf] and here [mp3 podcast].
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Arts & entertainment: Francisco Goldman discusses his first non-fiction book and overcoming his own grief
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John Brownlee talks with silent theater director about Lulu, a play about the murder of a flapper at the hands of Jack the Ripper. In Table of Malcontents.
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By Kaufman, Larry  In the spirit of the
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With all the questions that have flowed through Josh Beckett's initial season with the Red Sox -- Why all the home runs? When is he going to live up to his potential? Why did Anibal Sanchez, and not Beckett, throw the first no-hitter between the two? -- the final effort of the season from the prize trade acquisition seemed strangely ...
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Red Sox right-hander Josh Beckett will be looking to become major league baseball's first 13-game winner tonight when he toes the rubber against visiting Oakland.
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The recent death of poet Czeslaw Milosz robs the world of one of its most prophetic and powerful voices.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Structured like the "Divine Comedy," Jean-Luc Godard's new film is a journey through hell and purgatory in search of a paradise.
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Christopher Nolan's new film is worth a watch.
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Call it destiny, serendipity, karmic justice, whatever you will. But the planet has come around full circle since last October, when Tim Wakefield was sobbing in the Bronx amid the sad wreckage of yet another autumnal fantasy.