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Shredder Marnie Stern explains the two-handed finger-tapping style; in
“Cellars by Starlight,” we check out Boston’s open-mic nights; in “The Big
Hurt,” David Thorpe goes head to head with Lil Wayne, Good Charlotte, Dan
Auerbach, and the Glitter Band; musical chairs at the BSO, the Pacifica at
Longy, the Boston Philharmonic’s three B’s, and the Cecilia’s Bach B-minor Mass;
The Upsetter screens at the Coolidge; New England’s premier DJ squad
the Deck Demons regroup with a new line-up; the depunking of LA’s Darker My
Love; Rare Frequencies introduces the first annual Smash Palace; plus
live reviews of Video Games Live, and Girl Talk, CD reviews and more. (Online
only: Watch A.A. Bondy video, Read a full Q&A with Talking Heads front-man David
Byrne and view our exclusive online slideshow of Peter Simon’s amazing reggae
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Baz Luhrmann’s Australia is a rollicking good time — till it tries
to get serious; the HFA offers a weekend of “Orson Welles the Unknown”; in “Back
Talk,” Cleve Jones talks about the real Harvey Milk; Karen Shakhnazarov, one of
Russian film’s signature voices, at the MFA; plus short reviews of Andy
Warhol: Denied, Four Christmases, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, and
Transporter 3. (Online only: Check out pictures, video and interviews from
Twilight’s Boston premier and watch the video interview of Harvey Milk protégé
and gay rights activist Cleve Jones. Don’t forget to also catch movie trailers
and Peter Keough's film blog, Outside the Frame.) | ||||||||||||||
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy is a ghost story that never quite
materializes; Gamelan Galak Tika goes robotic at MIT; theater critic Carolyn
Clay reviews David Hare’s Skylight at Merrimack Repertory Theatre
and Einstein’s Dreams at Underground Railway Theater; plus more on
art, books, and theater (Online only: View a slideshow of the totally
tubular submissions for The Phoenix’s Ski cover contest and read the books
blog, Word Up.) | ||||||||||||||
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Roxbury residents sound off on the news of Chuck Turner’s arrest;
gays strike back with “Day Without a Gay” in the wake of Prop 8 debacle;
Russia, a country not exactly renowned for its press freedoms, has acquired
a new uncensorable voice online — President Dmitry Medvedev’s; Robert Nadeau
joins the three-level circus at the new Restaurant Marliave; plus more on
news, politics, and food. (Online only: View extra photos and an interactive
map of more Vanishing Boston sites.) | ||||||||||||||
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What if a poem were a social force? Boston poets Rafael Campo and Franz
Wright have laid bare a live wire between poetry and isolation. | ||||||||||||||
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Fallout 3 turns you loose in post-apocalyptic Washington. | ||||||||||||||
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