One U2 story you didn't read in the Boston papers this morning amid all the hype over the band's visit to promote "No Line On The Horizon": Turns out that horizon is in the Netherlands. TheWrap.com reports that many folks back in Ireland are supremely pissed off at U2 for moving th...

The Boston Lyric Opera unveiled ambitious plans for 2009-10 under General and Artistic Director Esther Nelson today. The four main productions are: A new BLO production of Bizet’s Carmen directed by Nicholas Muni and conducted by Keith Lockhart, at the Shubert beginning Nov. 6 The North American p...

Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz has sent yet another "Dear Brandeis Alumnus/a" e-mail to confuse everyone with bullshit "clear up some of the misconceptions" surrounding the university's financial plight and the not-closing of the Rose Art Museum. In other words, one more ...

New artistic director Kate Warner (left) will direct three plays in New Rep's 2009-2010 season, starting with... "Mr Roberts?" Really? Yes, the season will kick off Sept. 13 with the 1948 Tony Award-winner about the officer who has to work the middle ground between the action-starved c...

I know times are tough, but...the title of the next big show at MassMoCA is "These Days: Elegies for Modern Times." It's a group show, loosely organized around the Jackson Browne song "These Days." The song is  tattooed on the inside of my skull from many many listening...

...features in my theater review in the Globe today. "The Random Caruso" is a tale of Hollywood backstabbing that's not quite vicious enough, although the Centastage cast is good. Greg Cook's gallery reviews are always worth reading, even when short. Executives of that Plymouth mov...

...but I'd rather finish this margarita than write an item at 7 on Friday night, so I'm just going to give you the press release, straight up:  Opera Boston announces 2009-2010 season Highlights include world premiere commission Madame White Snake;Woodruff, Blythe, Maniaci, Huang, and ...

Sultry, huh? Untitled (Marilyn / Mao) is just one of many striking works in the Peabody Essex Museum's new exhibit, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, open to the public Saturday through May 17. Of course, if I told you it was a Warhol from the 1960s, you'd be mildly...

The record label and the music college both had a big night. ROUNDER RECORDING ARTISTS WIN MULTIPLE GRAMMY® AWARDS ... ALISON KRAUSS | ROBERT PLANT ... TAKE TOP HONORS WITH TWO OF THE NIGHT’S BIGGEST AWARDS shouts the record company. Berklee Alumni Won Eight Grammy Awards at the 51st Annual Cerem...

In a political ultimate fighting match that seems to belong to the previous presidency, Bill Maher and Ann Coulter will stage a showdown at the Wang Theater March 10. The event is part of the Citi Performing Arts Center's terribly misnamed “Speaker Series: The Minds That Move The World.� One...