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HomeFront: Anthony Hopkins at his best, pizza at its yummiest, plus an outlook for the arts By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated March 12, 2021, 11:33 a.m. Email to a Friend The Opera House and Paramount are some of the many performing arts spaces that are closed because of the COVID pandemic.Matthew J Lee/Globe staff Welcome once again to HomeFront, where we’re thanking friends and relatives, essential workers and businesses, educators and health-care providers, local restaurants, ...

HomeFront: Billie Holiday, Beethoven, and Bad Bunny, plus art to comfort and calm By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated February 25, 2021, 6:35 p.m. Email to a Friend Andra Day stars in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday."Takashi Seida/Hulu Welcome back to HomeFront, where the moon is almost full, the snow is melting a little, and next week is March, can you believe it? Now that I’ve all but guaranteed a freak blizzard, here are some suggestions for cocooning entertainment. FILM: ...

HomeFront: 4 stars for ‘Nomadland,’ tween-friendly TV, remembering comedian Patrice O’Neal By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 6:57 p.m. Email to a Friend Welcome back to HomeFront, where we’re listening to metal and punk covers of “Let It Snow” (surprisingly soothing) and thinking about a Laura Ingalls Wilder book other than “The Long Winter” for a change. This time it’s “Farmer Boy,” in which Almanzo’s fat...

It sure sounds like Amazon wants to open a giant facility in Johnston, R.I. The town’s planning board is set to discuss a proposal from Bluewater Property Group, which is also seeking to develop a distribution center for Amazon in New York By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated February 8, 2021, 9:26 a.m. Email to a Friend An Amazon Prime parcel passes along a conveyor at an Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Frankenthal, Germany in Oct. 2020.Thorsten Wagner/Bloomberg If you have friends or...

HomeFront: Thrillers, mysteries, ‘Pixar Popcorn,’ and lots of takeout By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated January 21, 2021, 4:35 p.m. Email to a Friend Adarsh Gourav and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in “The White Tiger.” ​Singh Tejinder/Netflix Welcome back to HomeFront, where we’re feeling lighthearted and well rested despite having engaged in a nonzero amount of day drinking this week. We needed a change, which the universe delivered in a shower of time-honored ...

HomeFront: ‘One Night in Miami,’ takeout as civic duty, South Asian art galore By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated January 14, 2021, 2:38 p.m. Email to a Friend Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Aldis Hodge star in Regina Kings directorial debut, "One Night in Miami."Amazon Studios Welcome back to HomeFront, where we’re counting down to the final lesson in the civics course that’s been disrupting our domestic tranquillity for the past four years; we ...

HOMEFRONT HomeFront: Albums and books of the year, Pixar with ‘Soul,’ gifts to order now for immediate delivery By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated December 23, 2020, 8:36 p.m. Email to a Friend “Folklore” and “Evermore” landed Taylor Swift on the Globes list of the top pop albums of the year.Beth Garrabrant/Universal Music Group Welcome once again to HomeFront, where prehistoric solstice rituals are currently resonating more than any tradition cooked up si...

Philip Johnson’s glass-house mystique could use a shattering Updated December 20, 2020, 7:15 a.m. Email to a Friend A view of the front entrance at 9 Ash St. in Cambridge, formerly known as the Philip Johnson Thesis House.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff In “Philip Johnson: An ugly history that must be named” (Sunday Arts, Dec. 13), Murray Whyte contends that, by forgetting Johnson, we let him off too easy and lose out on important lessons of the past. Yet the expenditure of an entire a...

HomeFront: Best of the Arts 2020 and more By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated December 18, 2020, 10:32 a.m. Email to a Friend The years highlights include "Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood," a Nina Simone-inspired mural in the South End.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Welcome back to HomeFront, where we’re shoveling snow, counting down to the winter solstice on Monday, and hanging on every word of the news about vaccines — or, as we like to think of them, get-out-of-jail-free cards magi...

HomeFront: Streep, Clooney, Beethoven, and more By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated December 10, 2020, 3:20 p.m. Email to a Friend Lucas Hedges and Meryl Streep in a scene from "Let Them All Talk."Peter Andrews/HBO Max via AP Welcome back to HomeFront, where the days are still growing shorter but sunset now comes a tiny bit later. We’re trying out a glass-half-full attitude in honor of the latest vaccine news; it’s a little uncomfortable, like poking yourself in the eye with a...