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Pacey Foster tells the story of Boston hip-hop Soon after music-minded UMass-Boston management professor Pacey Foster signed on to write a Boston chapter for the most comprehensive hip-hop tome ever compiled, his mission brought him to rural Maine, where it has long been speculated that the ...
Movies
Thrill Jockey Trans Am are distillers of guilty pleasures, mixing fat AOR riffs with sleazy electronic accents and a propulsive attitude typically reserved for arcade soundtracks. What Day Is It Tonight? covers the DC-area band’s 20-year history with high-quality, high-energy live cuts taken ...
Music
Interscope (2009) It turns out there is merit behind the billion-dollar hype machine that’s been propelling Wale since he surfaced on the face of URB two years ago.
Music
Lady GaGa
Dr. Dre
Jazmine Sullivan
Chrisette Michele
The Huntington celebrates A Civil War Christmas Abraham Lincoln, as he said in his second inaugural address, yearned to "bind up the nation's wounds." Since the great man was assassinated little more than a month later, he didn't quite get around to it. No worry, Paula Vogel has taken over ...
Celebrities
Lincoln
Sarah Jessica Parker
Devendra Banhart and the Grogs live at Berklee Performance Center, November 14, 2009 My lingering qualms with Devendra Banhart's new album have very little to do with its substance and more to do with its consistency, a quality that throughout What Will We Be? seems present only in its ...
Music
Devendra Banhart
The Happiness Project speaks volumes Charles Spearin's Happiness Project — to be performed this Friday at the Middle East Downstairs as part of a trio of Torontonian acts — was originally just that: a project. FREE SPEECH From the rhythms and pitches of his neighbors’ recorded talk, ...
Music
The Middle
The Big Pink accentuate the positive The rock career of UK upstarts the Big Pink has been one of finding, at the intersection of sheer bloody noise and haunting melodies, the commonality of hate and love.
NO COMPLAINTS "We realized that life is wonderful and incredible, and there's ...
Music
Elvis Perkins clears up his cloudy ballads Elvis Perkins has got a backstory on him. KEEPING IT SIMPLE “I’m not sure of the worth of making up characters outside of the self,” says Perkins (second from left), “when the self is all that I can pretend to know.” Elvis Perkins has got ...
Music
Come Monday, it's a one-week spring to the primary — and to capture the hearts of undecided voters. Martha Coakley should be plenty thankful for the holiday weekend. The polls suggest that, if nothing significant changes between now and the December 8 primary, she should handily claim the ...
Celebrities
X Factor
Edward Kennedy
Also Spears speared, Hook hacked Faces refaced, Spears speared, Hook hacked Rumors of a Faces reunion tour have been popping up for more than a year now — at times floated by ROD STEWART himself — but the deal keeps stalling and snagging. And if there are any dad-rock old-timers out ...
Music
Britney Spears
Rod Stewart
Oasis
Simply Red
Jordin Sparks
Liam Gallagher
Justice for Some It's been a depressing stretch for supporters of marriage equality. It's been a depressing stretch for supporters of marriage equality. Earlier this month, Maine had a chance to become the first state to back same-sex marriage with a popular vote; instead, Maine's ...
Celebrities
Barack Obama
Power Play Dept. Folks driving past suburban Stop & Shop locations this week might wonder why laborers are suddenly concerned about food safety. Folks driving past suburban Stop & Shop locations this week might wonder why laborers are suddenly concerned about food safety. To ...
Movies
Can Harvard's humanist chaplain save nonbelief from itself? Once an intellectual taboo, atheism has become one of the great growth industries of the third millennium. Once an intellectual taboo, atheism has become one of the great growth industries of the third millennium. Combative ...
Celebrities
Bill Maher
Ricky Gervais
Barack Obama
Knit Twit Dept. Hello, America. A special Glenn Beck Program tonight: I'm speaking to you from somewhere in the North Pole, and let me tell you [adopts cartoonish yokel voice with rubbery exaggerated shiver] it is coooooooold up here. Pudgy lunatic Glenn Beck has crafted a new piece ...
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Barack Obama
The former VP candidate could have proven her intellectual bona fides. She didn't, so let's move on. Give Sarah Palin this: she isn’t driven by polls. If she wanted to improve her chances at political success, she would have used her book and promotional tour to convince America that she ...
Celebrities
Sarah Palin
Carrie Prejean
Mitt Romney
Katie Couric
Jonah
Bill O'Reilly
The myth of the pilgrims is so ingrained in our culture, it's a part of our national DNA. But one trip to the Plymouth area could change all that. If you're looking for meaning in the overly sanitized myth that is our national Thanksgiving celebration, a good place to start is southeastern ...
Television
Lincoln
Xtreme acting "When people like to label any kind of performance as over the top, I suggest that if you were to go to the Guggenheim and look at a Francis Bacon, would you call that over the top?" Review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. By Peter Keough. Nicolas Cage ...
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Nicolas Cage
Werner Herzog
Harvey Keitel
Knight of the Iguana: Nicolas Cage at his best Nicolas Cage is at his best in Bad Lieutenant Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Directed by Werner Herzog | Written by William Finkelstein | With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner, Fairuza Balk, ...
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Werner Herzog
Nicolas Cage
Paul Thomas Anderson
Eva Mendes
Harvey Keitel
No Country for Old Men
No country for all men: John Hillcoat doesn't stray from Cormac McCarthy's Road John Hillcoat doesn't stray from Cormac McCarthy's Road For those who found the Coen Brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men too lighthearted, John Hillcoat's relentlessly faithful ...
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Joel & Ethan Coen
Viggo Mortensen
Charlize Theron
Robert Duvall
Michael Keaton
Paul Shaffer and the Big Man tell all Paul Shaffer is a happenin’ cat. Pick an It Moment from pop culture over the past 30 years and Shaffer was there. He was an original band member on Saturday Night Live . He played hapless promo guy Artie Fufkin in This Is Spinal Tap . Disco? He co-wrote ...
