Boston Phoenix > Summer 2006
FEATURES: The IberoAmerican Film Festival:
Boston’s IberoAmerican Film Festival, organized by the Boston Public Library in partnership with the regional consulates of each of the 13 countries, continues tonight and runs through August 26 at the BPL. The eleventh annual festival features a dozen movies that have been box office or critic favorites in their homelands, but barely released in the U.S. (Read more)
LOCAL MUSIC: Indie rock en Español: The Clandestino rock in Spanish party
If Shakira singing with Mana in a reggaeton remix is your idea of the Latin-American music scene, check out the nomad Clandestino party ― this Friday at All Asia in Cambridge ― and listen carefully: Peruvian Christian Hinojosa, the organizer and DJ, plays the rock that young people are actually listening to in Spanish.
LIFESTYLE FEATURES: Patagonian express: A consumer's guide
Bruce Chatwin crossed the Rio Negro and entered the Patagonian Desert looking for an answer. What about this desert took such possession of Darwin’s mind? Why did these “arid wastes,” as Darwin termed the landscape, captivate him more than any other wonders he had seen in the Voyage of the Beagle?
NEWS STORIES: State boosts investment in arts and culture: Budget increase for Mass Cultural Council; Mass Cultural Facilities Fund granted
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NEWS STORIES: Spectacular failures: An MIT instructor on the Big Dig disaster
Engineers have taken us out of the caves and up to the skies, linked us with far away shores, and connected us to distant lands. And along the way they’ve also made some pretty huge mistakes. (Read more)
FEATURES: Jogo bonito: An Argentinean take on Brazil vs. Australia
These days, every time somebody finds out that I’m from Argentina, I get some variation on the same comment: “Argentina? Maradona! Great soccer, right?” You could say that, yes.
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