No one wants the sad girl, capable of feelings. Feelings are sticky, so too many will hold you down, stuck where you stand– a highly unattractive concept for a generation that only wishes to keep barreling along: to the future, to the better, to the anywhere-but-here.
Riana Reviews: Ryan Adams at The Beacon Theatre 5/2
Prisoner has all the trappings of a good breakup album, but everything I read insisted that both parties had moved on and were happily dating other people. Their divorce was over and both had moved on. But I couldn’t.
Thank You For Abandoning Me
An open letter to the parent who abandoned me.
Not Your Grandmother’s Ballet This Season at Boston Ballet
While it may be tempting to ditch the classics and forge new traditions, this year’s Nutcracker from Boston Ballet makes a case for top priority.
Riana Reviews: Rosko Green
Like Springsteen’s career-defining 1975 run at the Bottom Line or the Grateful Dead’s acid-test gigs in the mid-‘60s, I could not help but wonder if a night like this would be the what biographers and impassioned bloggers will later put into history.