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MOVIE REVIEW | ★★★½
Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated remake of ‘West Side Story’ is a triumph
Spielberg’s maximalist, go-big-or-go-home aesthetic captures the pulse rate of the stage musical in a way the Oscar-winning 1961 film version failed to do.
Drake withdraws 2 Grammy nominations from final ballot
The four-time Grammy winner and his management asked the Recording Academy to withdraw his two nominations from the final-round ballot, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. They said Drake’s request was honored by the academy.
Boston College museum receives $20m gift of art from Peter Lynch
Lynch’s gift to BC’s McMullen Museum of Art includes works by Pablo Picasso, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Mary Cassatt.
An empty Cambridge movie theater is just what this filmmaker needed to create a zombie apocalypse
Conor Holway’s “Apple Cinema” mostly takes place inside the actual Apple Cinemas, which had been closed through much of the pandemic.
Olivia Rodrigo announces Boston date for 2022 ‘Sour’ world tour
Rodrigo announced dates for her “Sour” tour, which kicks off in April 2022 in San Francisco, and concludes in London in July. The tour includes a May 3 performance at Roadrunner, a new 3,500-seat concert venue due to open in Allston next spring.
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: Chris Cuomo’s gone, the ‘Sex and the City’ revival is here, and two retro sitcoms go live
I’m happy to see that CNN fired Chris Cuomo on Saturday. These days, it’s good to see a news organization, even a flawed one like CNN, assert some kind of concern about journalistic ethics.
Kennedy Center Honors back once more, Biden attends
Honorees include Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, “Saturday Night Live” mastermind Lorne Michaels, actress-singer Bette Midler, opera singer Justino Diaz and folk music legend Joni Mitchell.
MUSIC REVIEW
Julian Lage Trio stretches out at Berklee Performance Center
The trio played an expansive set that emphasized songs from their most recent album, "Squint," but fleshed out into something grander and more in-the-moment than those recordings.
Matthew Aucoin’s adventures in opera
His opera "Eurydice" just made its New York debut at the Met and his first book comes out this week. At 31, Medfield native Matthew Aucoin has emerged as one of the country’s most sought-after composers.
TELEVISION
GBH puts ‘Talking Politics’ in old ‘Beat the Press’ time slot
Hosted by Adam Reilly, the new show will be panel-based, with GBH News’ City Hall reporter Saraya Wintersmith, State House bureau reporter Mike Deehan, and politics editor Peter Kadzis on board as “key contributors,” according to GBH.
MUSIC REVIEW
An especially robust season’s greetings from the Holiday Pops
Thursday's concert marked the first time that the Boston Pops had performed live in front of an audience in its Symphony Hall home in two years.
ART
In new exhibit at Beacon Gallery, Caron Tabb explores privilege — and the past — with mixed results
Tabb’s thorny exhibition “Humanity Is Not a Spectator Sport” at the South End's Beacon Gallery grapples with whiteness.
MATTHEW GILBERT
The 10 best TV shows of 2021 (and 10 more that almost cracked the list)
Rich people behaving badly. An all-female Muslim punk band. A stand-up comic who’s lost her zing. This was the stuff of some of the season’s very best series.
THEATER
Idina Menzel stars in ‘WILD’ at the ART in Cambridge — a show that imagines the world in better hands
The world premiere musical starring Idina Menzel begins performances Sunday at the Loeb Drama Center. Menzel will star in the show through Dec. 23, with a yet-to-be-named actress taking over for the rest of the run.
Art school confidential
Three students at Massachusetts College of Art and Design are thrilled to be back in their studio spaces on a (mostly) normal basis.
MUSIC REVIEW
Conrad Tao makes magnetic Celebrity Series solo debut
The former child prodigy improvised and inspired in a live Cambridge performance.