Pianist Liu Wei sits quietly to compose himself before plunging into the music. Then he takes off a sock. Piano - Liu Wei - Music - Keyboard - Arts Read the original here:  Chinese man with no arms plays piano with toes

At precisely 12:55 p.m. yesterday, President Obama, dressed in khakis and a blue polo shirt, rolled in a sport utility vehicle down the long driveway from his rented Chilmark estate and headed to the pale green hills of Farm Neck Golf Club. Polo shirt - Sports - Golf - Barack Obama - Sport utility vehicle...

We asked you, the readers, to help us decide Boston’s best musical act of all-time. After more than 8,000 votes and plenty of heated arguments, you crowned a champion. En route, you made your voice heard by casting enough write-in ballots to place a surprise pick on this list. Click through to...

LENOX — With the health of James Levine hovering like a question mark over the Tanglewood Festival, which he has been missing while recovering from back surgery, one listens and watches the conductors with a new kind of curiosity. What if he were the music director? What does the orchestra, much...

Photo of Theater District tagged “Bostonist” by Antydiluvian . Boston’s worst live music venue, the Wilbur Theatre, on the left. Is there a shittier live music venue in Boston than the Wilbur Theatre? We hope not. Let’s just say that it takes an advanced level of suck to cancel...

Mason Jennings with Anni Rossi The Somerville Theater (55 Davis Square, Somerville) Thursday, October 15, 8pm (doors open 7:15) $24 [ Tickets ] Mason was interviewed by Cat Mooney . Tomorrow night, hippie-folk rocker Mason Jennings will grace the stage at the Somerville Theater with indie songstress...

Porter Exchange, located in Porter Square, is filled with Japanese food stalls and restaurants. Take your pick from noodles and rice bowls to pastries. Cafe Mami is just one of the small stalls where you can get great food for cheap. With nothing on the menu over $9, Cafe Mami offers hearty meals that...

Jack DeJohnette in 2006, http://www.flickr.com/photos/imjackhandy/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 Last week, the legendary jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette graced the stage of the Berklee Performance Center to present a program charting the past and future directions of his music. The show was divided into two sets—the...

Onstage last night at the Somerville Theater, Os Mutantes looked remarkably young for a 40-year-old band. The Brazilian pop alchemists, who were at the center of Brazil’s Tropicália cultural uprising, had performed a new transmutation—this time, on themselves. The band looked young because...

The Boston Pops with Ben Folds Friday, Oct. 2, 8 pm Symphony Hall Tickets $20-$75. Limited tickets have been released. Ticket information. Keith Lockhart quickly acknowledged the elephant in the room that is Symphony Hall. Singer-songwriter Ben Folds’ impending Oct. 2 return to the Boston venue...