21 February 2012
420 Characters by Lou Beach
By Borah Coburn // Books
This is one of those books that I’ll be re-reading for a long time to come (this means I’m in love, folks). I might even get creepy and start memorizing …
20 February 2012
Mr. Darcy Doesn’t Love You
By Borah Coburn // Books
Okay. So I went to the bookstore recently, and I was just browsing around the bookstore, looking for something new and exciting to read, like I do, and I noticed …
19 February 2012
Be The Man… On A Wedding Cake
By Borah Coburn // Books
Be The Man is a step-by-step guide for grooms—going from planning the engagement ring and proposal, all the way to checklists for the big day—written by Chris Easter, the co-founder …
17 February 2012
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
By Borah Coburn // Books
This is a weird little book. I picked Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk up on a whim, as I do with most books (I like a little chance involved in my life). …
16 February 2012
Throwbacks: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Vol. 1)
By Borah Coburn // Books
Okay, I’m currently binging on books (even for me), so I ran out of books that I hadn’t read in my house (well, that’s a lie… there are medical …
06 February 2012
Author Review: Jasper Fforde (So Ffar)
By Borah Coburn // Books
This part is a ramble/rant, but bear with me. Okay, so this may or may not be clear to you already, but just in case you missed it, or are …
29 January 2012
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
By Borah Coburn // Books
Evelyn Waugh was a British author best known for such novels as Brideshead Revisited and A Handful of Dust. He died in 1966, so he’s not exactly new news. Also, …
26 January 2012
What is it? Coriolanus must I call thee?
By Borah Coburn // Cinema
I recently saw Ralph Fiennes’s labor of love—his adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus—and I fully loved it. The movie is beautiful, gritty, unadorned, and truly unique in its interpretations of …
19 January 2012
Kill Bill (Shakespeare) Vol. 2
By Borah Coburn // Books
….Aaaaaand we’re back. Remember, Kill Shakespeare is a comic book series about two factions of Shakespeare characters trying to save or kill the god/wizard Will Shakespeare. In this corner, we …
10 January 2012
THE Hamlet
By Borah Coburn // Books
Faulkner’s The Hamlet is about a family of hicks (The Snopes) living in the boonies of Mississippi in a town called Frenchman’s Bend. The novel kicks off by introducing us …
07 January 2012
Diary of a Black Mask
By Borah Coburn // Theatre
I wasn’t in The American Repertory Theatre’s (A.R.T.) acclaimed Sleep No More. And I haven’t even seen the version in New York. But if you saw the version in Boston, …
05 January 2012
Kill Bill (Shakespeare) Vol. 1
By Borah Coburn // Books
Kill Shakespeare is a graphic novel created and written by Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col, with art by Andy Belanger, about a wizard/god (it depends on who you ask) …
30 December 2011
Go, Mutants! by Larry Doyle
By Borah Coburn // Books
I don’t tend to like things set in high schools—books, 80’s movies, tv shows, classes, you name it—and we could go into the whys, but what it basically boils down …
23 October 2011
Horror-pop Halloween: Zombies, An Evil Videogame, and A Sinister Suburb
By Borah Coburn // Theatre
Happy Medium Theatre’s production of Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley is often funny, endearing in a nerdy (and sometimes intensely angsty teenage way), and engrossing. The basic story is …
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