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Boston Globe
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Words, music, and more combine to tell overlooked stories of women of color in Boston
Advertisement The presentation was part of Narratives of Women of Color in Greater Boston , a new performance series that aims to reintroduce these kinds of rich but overlooked narratives with original compositions. These new works, many of which fuse music, dance, video, or poetry, are based on historical documents about women of color in Boston, ranging from decades-old archival interviews to contemporary poetry and manuscripts submitted by community members. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The April event launched the series with programming that was primarily inspired by the Advertisement The series is the initiative of Qin cites community engagement as a key component of her artistic practice, and decided to dig deeper into the history of neighborhoods across her new-ish home last fall. She launched an open call for materials preserving the experiences of Boston-based women of color, requesting text-based documents like letters, poetry, and manuscripts. She ultimately received 'eye-opening' submissions from residents of Roxbury, Dorchester, Cambridge, Brookline, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and the Fenway, touching on topics such as life as a Black disabled woman and the city's desegregation busing crisis in the 1970s and 1980s. Combined with the interviews from the oral history project, the wealth of perspectives would serve as the inspiration for the series's six composers: ' I wanted to really go into those histories, see what actually happened and what I didn't know, and what I could create from those unknown things,' Qin says. Guests at Tuesday's event in Roxbury can expect to hear five of the eight new compositions created for the series, including a work by Qin that was inspired by 'Present/Presence,' a poem from Boston disability advocate and author Heather Watkins. Another event in the series, scheduled for May 31, will move the experience outdoors to the Little Free Library at the Rose Kennedy Greenway and unveil two previously-unheard compositions created for the series. Advertisement Qin says she hopes the multimedia nature of the performances will pique guest's interests in the materials that inspired each event, as well as the careers and backgrounds of the composers themselves. 'Even if it's just one phrase or one note, if that moment really speaks to them, I think it could start a new journey for them,' she says. GIG GUIDE Puerto Rican star At Roadrunner on Brooklyn's Sunflower Bean revive a retro rock sound at Deep Cuts this Saturday. Anna Nazarova Two of Brooklyn's best rock bands visit Deep Cuts this week; after releasing their taut EP 'Shake' last year, Advertisement Los Angeles singer-songwriter Samia brings a clash of ethereal pop and indie folk to the House of Blues on Wednesday. Riley Dwyer Some of the finest funk and psychedelia in the country – nay, universe – touches down at the House of Blues on After supporting the European leg of embarks on her own headlining tour across North America, bringing her youthful pop-rock to Somerville savant Ezra Furman releases her tenth album 'Goodbye Small Head' – a reference to a Sleater-Kinney lyric – this Friday. Eleanor Petry NOW SPINNING Rico Nasty's third album "LETHAL" is a 15-track salvo of trap and rap – and on a few occasions, rabid nu-metal. Emerald Arguelles Rico Nasty, Advertisement 'Lucid Dreaming,' Tune-Yards's sixth studio album, unfurls a surrealistic plane of art-pop. Shervin Lainez Tune-Yards, BONUS TRACK has a new season of local 'n' live music on tap. Starting this weekend, the brewery's stage will host free performances from area musicians on Fridays and Saturdays; Victoria Wasylak can be reached at . Follow her on Bluesky @
USA Today
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
‘Cowboy Carter' sashes are trending: Sellers say it's about the community of Beyoncé
'Cowboy Carter' sashes are trending: Sellers say it's about the community of Beyoncé Show Caption Hide Caption Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' tour stops to include only nine cities The "Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour" will run in only nine cities April through July. Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" look from her latest album has sparked a trend of fans buying personalized sashes. Etsy sellers and small business owners are seeing a surge in sales, particularly after the tour announcement. The sashes represent a sense of community among Beyoncé fans, similar to Taylor Swift's friendship bracelets. Beyoncé donned a "Cowboy Carter" sash on the cover of her eighth studio album, and now fans are rushing to buy their own ahead of her upcoming tour, leading to a surge in sales for sash makers. Ashley Yang, a certified Beyhive member based in Los Gatos, California, began selling "Cowboy Carter"-inspired sashes on her Etsy store Deep Cuts last year when she first saw Beyoncé's cover. Yang was immediately inspired to create her own sash after Beyoncé released the album on March 29, 2024--just days before her birthday. And she made the 'Cowboy Carter' alvum the entire theme for her birthday, creating personalizing sashes for her and her friends. That's when I made like the first version of these sashes and kind of immediately knew if I want this, I'm sure other Beyoncé fans out there want it too," Yang said. And from there, the sashes became the first product on her ever-growing Etsy store. The sashes are now being sold starting at $38. While she has branched out into other products on Etsy, she says her business really began to flourish once Beyoncé announced her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour earlier this year. "The volume this year so far is crazy, and so it's just really awesome to kind of see stuff that I was seeing last year really coming to fruition this year," she says. Yang says fans have gotten creative personalizing their sashes, and she foresees that being a trend throughout the tour. "I think it could become a thing where everyone has a sash, but they all say different things," Yang says. And it's like becoming a thing, 'what is yours going to say?' Maybe similar to the Taylor Swift friendship bracelets." Other businesses owners and sash-makers agree the overarching theme of the sash trend is community. "I think community and customization is really sort of the key with the sashes," Kureé Sheard says. In 2019, Sheard started her businesses Ninalem's Party, which makes "decor that inspires people to live unapologetically." Based in Wall Township, New Jersey, Sheard calls herself a founding BeyHive member and says she immediately got the idea to customize sashes once she saw the cover of "Cowboy Carter." Now she sells them in all sizes. "I've loved Beyoncé since I was 11 years old," Sheard says. "And I really appreciate Beyoncé because she sets trends. She's so innovative. And whenever I think about my work ethic, I like to sort of liken it or compare it to Beyoncé." While her business has sold other themed sashes in the past, the Beyoncé-inspired products have made a huge impact. They have gone viral on social media, and her business has been booming with personalized orders. She says attributes the success to God's timing because Beyoncé announced the tour at a time when her business was struggling immensely. "I opened up my Instagram, there was my girl (Beyoncé) with her blond gray box braids announcing the tour ... and from there, it was up like our business did a complete 180," Sheard says. "This is a God thing." Sheard says the sashes are more than a trend. They not only reinforce community but also originate from it. "We have built community around Beyoncé because it's authentic. For me, there's no one else but Beyoncé," she says. "I get on (Instagram) live and we just talk about Beyoncé. We just literally talk about everything like what we think she's going to open with or what do we think people are going to wear." She is taking sash orders on her starting at $39.95. "I really wanted this to be like my ode to the hive, my love story, my gift to the hive, to just do a great quality sash at a great price point," Sheard says. Beyoncé released her eighth studio album "Cowboy Carter" on March 29, 2024, making history on multiple fronts with the project. On April 28, she will kick off her highly anticipated tour in Los Angeles. Follow Caché McClay, the USA TODAY Network's Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @cachemcclay.
The Guardian
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
In brief: Bowieland; Deep Cuts; The Inalienable Right
Peter CarpenterMonoray, £22, pp332 From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, the much-missed David Bowie was a musician as defined by place as he was by any of his other influences. In this innovative and inventive slice of psychogeography, Bowie aficionado Peter Carpenter embarks upon a tour of places in southern England associated with the legend. He discovers new and often surprising connections everywhere from Hastings (the Ashes to Ashes video location) to, inevitably, Bowie's birthplace in Brixton. Bowieland will make you want to take your very own pilgrimage, accompanied by the great man's songs. Holly BrickleyBorough Press, £16.99, pp288 Holly Brickley's debut novel has already attracted considerable praise, as well as comparisons with David Nicholls and Taylor Jenkins Reid. Some of the hyperbole is not quite justified by this charming but slightly precious book, which proves that it is nigh-on impossible to convey the excitement of songwriting through prose. However, Brickley's account of the relationship between Percy and Joe, who meet as students and weather the social upheaval of the 00s separately and together, will still engender a rush of recognition in music lovers of a certain age. Adam MacqueenEye, £9.99, pp414 (paperback) The third in Adam Macqueen's highly readable series of Tommy Wildeblood novels succeeds as a study of gay life in the 80s and as a page-turning thriller. Tommy may now have a boyfriend and a job as a teacher, but a repressive new law, Section 28, threatens to license homophobia on an institutional scale. Just as well, then, that Peter Morrison, one of its most ardent proponents, is also a former client of Tommy's from his streetwalker days. The Inalienable Right starts slowly, but builds to a memorably stirring finale. To order Bowieland, Deep Cuts or The Inalienable Right go to Delivery charges may apply
CBC
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
B.C.-born Holly Brickley's debut novel Deep Cuts to get movie adaptation
Holly Brickley's Deep Cuts begins in the year 2000. Boy bands and pop princesses are topping the charts, while music lovers thumb through CD binders looking for their favourite album, or even a special song, to play on their CD player. Percy, the protagonist, exchanges words about the popular music of the day with Joe, a songwriter and fellow student at UC Berkeley. From there, a love story between the two, but also between Percy and her music, develops. Brickley's debut novel, just released on Feb. 25, has already garnered interest from filmmakers; Brickley said The Iron Claw director Sean Durkin has been greenlit to write the adaptation himself, and stars Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler have been cast as the film's leads. "It's a dream come true," said Brickley, who grew up in Hope, B.C., and now lives in Portland, Ore. "The best part about it is that everyone involved is really high-quality, high-calibre talent. Saoirse, in particular, has a fierce intelligence but also a tenderness, which is exactly what I was going for with Percy's character." Ronan will also produce the film, and Brickley will be an executive producer. The story follows Percy, "a young woman with lots of opinions about music but no real talent for it," as Brickley describes her. While the book isn't autobiographical, Brickley said there are certain aspects plucked from her own life — the cities Percy lives in, the jobs she has, the schools she attends and the music she listens to during the same period Brickley herself was doing all those things. "It was really fun to go back to that time," she told CBC's North by Northwes t host Margaret Gallagher. "I don't know what it's like to be young now, I think probably pretty similar in a lot of ways. A lot of that beauty and pain is evergreen." Brickley grew up in a musical family in the small B.C. town of Hope, 122 kilometres east of Vancouver. Her dad was a professional songwriter, and her mom, aunts, uncles and brother were all musically gifted. Though Brickley was passionate about music, she said she didn't have a natural talent like the rest of her family did. Instead, she focused her creative energy on writing. "I love thinking of music in the context of writing, even though I'm not dealing with notes, I am dealing with rhythm and the sound of words and the way sentences and words can kind of play off each other within a paragraph," she said. Nostalgia Durkin, who will adapt the book for the screen, is a big fan of the book and wants to stay as close to the original story as possible, Brickley said. Part of the interest in the story, she thinks, could come from millennials leaning into nostalgia for the early 2000s. Setting the story in the 2000s, or the oughts as they're known to some, meant fewer technologies for accessing music and communicating with others, something Brickley appreciated as she looked back on those years. "Now, [technology] follows us out into the bars and clubs and pulls us away from each other, but back then it seemed to only want to help us connect. The iPod, I think, was the most glorious moment in modern technology when you could have thousands of songs on a device in your pocket, but your boss couldn't email you on it. We should have stopped there." Setting the book at that time also meant referencing music from the 2000s or earlier. Brickley gives shoutouts to Canadian artists like Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. "Joni is a once-in-a-generation absolute genius," Brickley said.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler to be the lead stars in Deep Cuts
Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler have been cast in 'Deep Cuts', which is being directed by Sean Durkin.
