FILM&TV: “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Oct. 23-24, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The family hit of the summer wasn’t only a hit with families. Read more...

Basement Jaxx “Kish Kash” Astralwerks This album isn’t quite the house music with which your older brother grooved along, which means it isn’t quite the house music this famed duo touted toward the end of last century. Read more...

Sounding so good never looked so easy. Sunday night at Schoenberg Hall, the Takács Quartet performed the second in an ambitious series of six concerts dedicated to completing the Beethoven string quartet cycle. Read more...

Life after college often forces aspiring rock “˜n’ rollers to give up their dream of the stage for the practicality of a 9 to 5 job. Read more...

In the mid-1980s, the BBC ran a clever, nuanced, six-part mini-series written by Dennis Potter called “The Singing Detective.” The landmark series followed the experiences of Dan Dark, a novelist stricken with a debilitating skin disorder, who hallucinates that he is a 1950’s noir-style private eye with a side gig as a singer in a band. Read more...

Imagine a piercing falsetto, bordering on the edge of freakish, singing about naughty children being blown to bloody bits while accompanied by carnival-like accordions, toy drum solos and even screeching cats. Read more...

Say goodbye to cute and perky. Meg Ryan is back, and this time her orgasms aren’t fake. In the new film “In the Cut,” Ryan plays Frannie Avery, a seemingly conservative teacher living in lower Manhattan, who finds herself taking sexual risks she never imagined. Read more...