The Boston Globe

Phil Tayler, Harry McEnerny V, and Davron S. Monroe in the Lyric Stage production of “Avenue Q.”

Mark S. Howard

STAGE REVIEW

Lyric Stage makes ‘Avenue Q’ feel like home

Avenue Q is, in one way or another, the street where we all live. By Jeffrey Gantz

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan sustains an atmosphere of jocularity, beauty, and dread in “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.”

Cinema Guild

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’ a Turkish procedural

The murder remains elusive, but the filmmaking is exquisite. By Wesley Morris

‘Birdseye’ by Mark Kurlansky

Most of us recognize the name Clarence Birdseye but few know the story of his adventurous life. The book vividly traces his time as an inventor, businessman, and “father of frozen food.” By Eric Liebetrau

Inside Arts & Lifestyle

“American Masters” profiles Johnny Carson, who as host of “The Tonight Show” from 1962 to 1992 commanded the world of late-night television.

Television Review

Closer look at the ‘King of Late Night’

Tony Gray’s untitled work from “The Panther Series.”

Galleries

Exhibits at Boston-area art galleries

The ruby slippers that Dorothy wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”

MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Story of Film’ is wildly ambitious

Boston-area to do list

Dolores O’Riordan (pictured in Italy earlier this year) and the Cranberries were joined by two touring musicians for their 90-minute set at the House of Blues

Music Review

Cranberries in good form for House of Blues

Miko Fogarty is one of the young ballet dancers in “First Position.”

Ballet dancers square off in documentary

Heidi Kayser afloat, with “The Remodeling Project.”

Performance art via kayak at Fort Point

Fearsome female foursomes of TV

Puebloan ruins in Grand Gulch, many of which remain unnamed, unmapped, and reachable only on foot.

In Bluff, Utah, exploring desert ruins in Grand Gulch

Frame by Frame

Flippant ‘Rock Fan’ fits well in college setting

Wilford Brimley (right, with Richard Farnsworth) in “The Natural.”

12 winning movie baseball coaches that endure

Scrub trees and small plants grow in fissures of slickrock at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

travel

Path less traveled reveals the wilds of Escalante

Movies

Movie Review

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a despot who winds up working at a Brooklyn food co-op.

‘Dictator’ tweaks broadly and carries a big shtick

“The Dictator” lacks the cultural tension of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” and “Bruno,” and is a lazy satire that can’t bring itself to properly satirize anything.

Music

Album Review | Rock

Garbage hits the sweet spot on latest

Everything that made Garbage great from its inception in the ‘90s remains on “Not Your Kind of People,” the electro rock quartet’s first release in 7 years.