This week in the Phoenix: Singing robots, stoner aliens, and book squads with blast-freezers
Looking for a little weekend reading? Here's what made its way into the fishwrap this week.
[theater] Love and Robots
Chris Dahlen's behind-the-scenes look at Tod Machover's Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera, running
this month at the Cutler Majestic. Big ups to MIT's Media Lab for
building the bots, and conveniently connecting them to Xbox controllers.
[features] Book Squad 911
As
it turns out -- water is a book's archnemesis, and the worst nightmare
of the any Boston library is a burst pipe. Luckily for the Athenaeum,
they've got the book emergency squad on speed dial.
[film] Deep Thrills
Peter Keough highlights three must-sees in a preview of next week's Boston Underground Film Festival.
[film] Review: Battle: Los Angeles
An alien invasion military thriller in digital/live-action.
[film] Review: Paul
On
the other end of the spectrum: In this latest
Frost/Pegg flick, a pot-smoking-alien encounter turns to
adventure on America's "Extraterrestrial Highway." Where Sean of Dead paid tribute to Romero and Hot Fuzz homaged Dirty Harry, this one's a love letter to vintage Spielberg.
[games] Game Faces
Maddy Myers rounds up her PAX coverage, and luckily everyone gets along. Mostly.
[games] Review: Killzone 3
Quoth
reviewer Mitch Krpata: "If you play it while wearing cataract
sunglasses and holding a light-up ice-cream cone, Killzone 3 may well be
a revolution."
[this just in] Fawkes News
Ariel Shearer unmasks Anonymous's most recent Boston meet-up -- and sounds like there's more where that came from.