Positive reviews of Wye Oak’s first two albums group the Baltimore duo into indie-rock subgenres with compounds like dream-pop, shoe-gaze and psych-folkMost coastal city-dwellers who are familiar with the grittier, busier side of life, relationships and indie-rock bands will love “Going the Distance”; the rest of America, not so much. This summer, the editor-in-chief of Fandango.com, Chuck Walton, decided to watch 100 films in 100 days. And although he might be approaching movie fatigue at this point, he was able to talk with us about what documentaries will soon be big.While you can certainly find a decent number of micro-brews on tap at the city’s better pubs, it’s safe to say you won’t see a selection like this anywhere else when the Massachusetts Brewers Guild holds the Mass Brewers Summerfest on Friday. The festival brings 80 local craft beers from more than 20 breweries all together in one place.It’s a book, a play, a Broadway musical, a film — and now the American Repertory Theater is rebooting the story behind “Cabaret” as an interactive theater piece.
The world’s most dangerous surf site, Teahupo’o, is located above a reef off the coast of Tahiti, but 3-D glasses and an IMAX screen bring its waves to Boston.
“Ultimate Wave Tahiti,” now showing at the New England Aquarium, follows nine-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater and surf guide Raimana Van Bastolaer, the unofficial mayor of Teahupo’o, as they brave the wave, experience Tahitian culture, and share some lessons in oceanography.
“Surfing is one-third of the movie,” Van Bastolaer says. “It’s educational, too, that’s the second third, and it’s about Tahiti itself, the forming of an island and the protecting of a reef.”
The giant screen shows all of the movie’s components in vivid detail, from the grains of sand on the beach to the beads of water dripping off a surfboard, and the 3-D imagery lets viewers put themselves right in the barrel of Teahupo’o without having to worry about surviving (or even getting wet).
Van Bastolaer says he hopes that, most of all, the movie’s lifelike action and panoramas will inspire others to visit the island he loves so much.
“Maybe after watching this movie, they’re finally going to be like, ‘Yes! Let’s go to Tahiti!’” he says.
‘Ultimate Wave Tahiti’
Through March 4
New England Aquarium
One Central Wharf, Boston
MBTA: Blue Line to Aquarium
$7-$10, 617-973-5200
www.neaq.org
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