On April 23, Drag Queen BenDeLaCreme performed her one-woman show “Ready to Be Committed” at the Academy of Music. Although DeLa is perhaps best known…
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At the Best of Valley Voices Story Slam at the Academy of Music on Feb. 20, 10 New England residents competed without props, notes or costumes to tell the best story.
I have a complicated relationship with the word “slam.” Every time I hear the word qualifying some literary event — a poetry reading or a storytelling event — I feel my stomach lurch, as though I caught a whiff of some food that once gave me torrential runs. Not that I only have bad experiences with slams, not at all. But for every poem I’ve heard that revelled in the snap of a word as it rolled off the tongue, for every story I listened to that sparked against the speaker’s animated telling, there were five, ten, fifteen others that made me cringe back into my seat.