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‘SNL’ host Rami Malek embraces villain role and cracks jokes with ‘James Bond’ star Daniel Craig
Rami Malek, who often takes on dramatic roles, turned his skills to comedy as the host of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.
MUSIC
Coming from the BSO, music of Still, Strauss, and Sibelius satisfies
The Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons played to their present strengths in Thursday's performance at Symphony Hall.
TELEVISION
‘Ted Lasso’-Apple TV+ connection extends to ‘Shrinking’
Jason Segel and the “Ted Lasso” duo of Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein are set to co-write and executive produce the new comedy, which will star Segel as a therapist who tells clients exactly what he’s thinking.
Being there, doing that: A dozen exhibits to check out now around New England
Stops include Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, and Maine's Portland Museum of Art.
Textiles tell a story all their own in the Titian Room
Conservators re-created 13 original fabrics to upholster the Titian Room walls — exactly as Isabella Stewart Gardner intended more than a century ago.
In Vermont, a museum of the mundane turns 10
The Museum of Everyday Life in Vermont is a different kind of museum — nothing is behind glass, there's no lock on the door, and almost everything in the exhibits can be found around your house. But that's just how founder Clare Dolan wants it.
As the MFA’s new fashion curator, theo tyson plans to undress sartorial truths and address the community
They aren't curating through the traditional museum lens. They are weaving together the fabrics of lived experience, contemporary fashion culture, identity, and the MFA archives.
By the numbers: How the pandemic is transforming museums
What museums will look like post-pandemic is anyone’s guess. Here’s a snapshot of where each museum has been, where it is, and, perhaps, where it is going.
A change in perspective
From centering underrepresented artists to owning up to past mistakes, Boston museums are both rising — and struggling — to meet the current moment, shaped by the pandemic and protests for racial justice. Here’s where they’ve succeeded, and where they still need to stretch.
DANCE
Boston Ballet newcomer Michaela DePrince appeared in Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade,’ and now stars in ‘Coppelia’
Nobody wants a "spotted child," they told her in the orphanage in Sierra Leone.
BOOK REVIEW
E.O. Wilson’s wars
“Scientist,” Richard Rhodes’ biography of Wilson begins with him on his hands and knees collecting and classifying ants, many previously unknown to science, in the jungles of New Guinea. Despite the oppressive heat and mosquitoes, he’s an elated Indiana Jones of insect hunters. As fascinating as this material is, it’s all been conveyed to much better effect in Wilson’s 1994 autobiography “Naturalist.”
BIBLIOPHILES
Bryan Washington: Reading short stories and YA to get through the pandemic
Bryan Washington says one of the reasons he wrote his award-winning story collection “Lot” was that his native city, Houston, especially its more hardscrabble side, was so underrepresented in literature. Houston is also the backdrop of the young author’s much lauded debut novel, “Memorial,” which he has described as a “gay slacker dramady.” Here's what's on his reading list.
STORY BEHIND THE BOOK
Mark Pawlak on the properties of a poet
Part memoir, part tribute, ‘My Deniversity’ recalls powerful influence of Denise Levertov on a former student of physics.
NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS
Celebrating the literary magazine Ploughshares, heeding bookstores’ calls to do do holiday shopping early, and a new poetry collection from a Natick author
News of literary note from around the region.
THE TICKET
Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond
Music, theater, comedy, museum, and family events, and more, selected by Globe critics and writers.
BOOKINGS
Virtual author readings for Oct. 17-Oct. 23
All author appearances are virtual unless otherwise noted.