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Chilly scenes in winter

The year ahead on Boston stages
The drama of the holidays (and I don’t mean A Christmas Carol) may be behind us, but there’s plenty more drama — and comedy and musicals — ahead to light up long winter nights.  
By LIZA WEISSTUCH  |  October 27, 2008
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Blood sport

Ninja Gaiden II scores a flesh wound
To judge by the way they’re portrayed in video games, ninjas are suffering from an identity crisis.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  June 17, 2008
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Creative compost

Brian Chippendale’s masterful Human Mold
It's a vision of feral characters wandering a world jerry-rigged from recycled scraps of a collapsed plastic mass-produced disposable civilization.
By GREG COOK  |  May 20, 2008
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Funny business

As the AltCom Festival arrives at the Somerville Theatre, we look at the roots of the indie comedy boom.
“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
By MIKE MILIARD  |  May 08, 2008
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Grail time

‘Ni’ business like show business in Spamalot
Monty Python’s Spamalot bills itself as “lovingly ripped off” from the low-budget 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail .
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 23, 2008

You get what you fall for

Letters to the Boston editor, September 28, 2007
I first read about the type of advance-fee scams detailed in “White Hunters, Black Hearts” in the pre-Internet days.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  September 26, 2007
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Adaptation

The 39 Steps winks at the Huntington; All the King’s Men thrills at Trinity
If your inner Mr. Memory — not to mention your outer Blockbuster — is operating, you recall The 39 Steps.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 26, 2007
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And now for something completely different

VIDEO: Peter Kadzis talks to Michael Palin about his favorite sketches, hosting Saturday Night Live , the Lumberjack, and the show's beginnings.

By BOSTON PHOENIX VIDEO  |  September 17, 2007
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White hunters, black hearts

Scambaiting turns the tables on Internet con men. But when the clever pranks turn dangerous and degrading, where does the moral compass point?
There are hundreds of faces in the “Trophy Room” of  419Eater.com , and most of them are black.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  September 12, 2007
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Stage worthies

Fall on the Boston boards
The roar of the greasepaint precedes that of the autumn wind this year.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 12, 2007
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Channeling Hitchcock

The 39 Steps Lead from the Huntington to Broadway
The classic British hero is cool, collected, witty, slightly bored, well-mannered, and possessed of lightning-fast reflexes when needed.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  September 04, 2007
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Maneaters: A history

A list of the beasts -- real and imagined -- that feast on human flesh
Sometimes the most ferocious maneater looks like an ordinary rabbit… and sometimes it looks just like you covered in a flesh-gobbling pus!
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  August 02, 2007
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Swamp gas

Shrek the Third   gets bloated
Shrek has metastasized into a symptom of and metaphor for the entertainment industry and modern culture in general.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 16, 2007
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Local color

The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
It’s an art-world misconception that, to champion local art, you have to grade on a curve.
By GREG COOK  |  May 08, 2007
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All the Wright moves

The deadpan master is still happy not to laugh
“I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.”
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  April 23, 2007
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Iraqis don’t count!

US media gives short shrift to the war's death toll
Thanks to the Pat Tillman charade, we know we can trust our military to deliver the hard, honest facts about deaths in combat.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  March 28, 2007
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Royal pain

Mirren and Frears save The Queen
Every tragedy reaches a point where mourning turns to kitsch. Watch the trailer for The Queen (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 20, 2007
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Best on the boards

 Certainly Nicholas Martin will leave the Huntington a livelier place than when he took over.
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 20, 2007
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Best on the boards

A year in theater
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 19, 2006
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By the horns

Riding Portland's mechanical bull
If you’ve ever wondered where the people who make those Girls Gone Wild videos find the women to participate in soft-porn video debasement, you’d be far less bewildered watching girl after girl trying to out-skank one another on the bull.
By RICK WORMWOOD  |  November 29, 2006

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