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Inman Oasis
Inman Oasis
By: Caitlin E. Curran  |  April 10, 2009
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Musical-Instrument Store

Tie: Guitar Center and Mister Music
Tie: Guitar Center and Mister Music
By: Caitlin E. Curran  |  April 10, 2009

Shoe Store — Men's

The Tannery
The Tannery
By: Caitlin E. Curran  |  April 10, 2009

Sporting-Goods Store

City Sports
City Sports
By: Caitlin E. Curran  |  April 10, 2009
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Newsstand

Out of Town News
Out of Town News
By: Caitlin E. Curran  |  April 15, 2009
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Thrift Shop

Boomerangs
Boomerangs
By: Caitlin E. Curran  |  April 15, 2009
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Firing back

A girl's best friend is her yogurt
"Yogurt is the official food of women." Or so enthuses TV writer Sarah Haskins in her sarcastic three-minute video "Target Women: Yogurt Edition."
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  March 26, 2009
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Nazis, Manet, and romance

Telling Fiction from Fact
During World War II, Nazi plunderers focused their greedy eyes on Paris and began looting the city's artwork — operating according to Hitler's plan to open a massive, self-aggrandizing museum in Germany.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  February 19, 2009
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Precious and Few

Passion Pit live at the Middle East Downstairs, February 6, 2009
Twenty-five minutes into Passion Pit's set last Friday at the Middle East downstairs, Michael Angelakos mopped sweat from his brow with a towel and made an apologetic announcement.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  February 09, 2009
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Short and bitter words of love

Six Little Words
People sum up grand concepts, thoughts, and plans in six words or fewer every day — in Facebook status updates, text messages, text-message novels , iPhone or Blackberry e-mails, Twitter posts, or analog Post-Its.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  February 02, 2009
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Slideshow: Shepard Fairey slaps a mural on the Phoenix offices

January 22, 2009
January 22, 2009
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 27, 2009
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Spilling family secrets

Speaking Up
Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian author Azar Nafisi began making a list in her diary.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 21, 2009
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Review: Department of Eagles

Brattle Theater, January 18, 2009
At the Brattle Theatre Sunday, Fred Nicolaus, guitarist from the Brooklyn-based duo Department of Eagles, announced that they'd play a song from their little-known 2003 debut album, The Whitey on the Moon UK LP . "It's not very good," he warned.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 20, 2009
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Grupo Fantasma

Middle East Downstairs, January 8, 2009
"When you come to our show, you gotta dance. You dance however you want to dance."
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 12, 2009
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Quiz-bowl kids

Harvard rebuilds its team and answers some hard questions
Andrew Watkins is having faulty-buzzer issues.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 08, 2009
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Lovers' rock

Think just being in a relationship is tough? Meet five bands who've combined work and play — and against all odds ended up making sweet harmonies
Ever want to throttle your co-worker, that well-meaning but slack-jawed doofus always peering over your cubicle? How about your partner at home, always leaving the seat up or making a Hansel-and-Gretel popcorn trail from the kitchen to the couch?
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  December 12, 2008
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Never Say Smile

Annie Leibovitz highlights her career
Could there be anyone cooler to have for a photography teacher than Annie Leibovitz?
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  November 19, 2008
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Mixed Media at the Papercut

Cultural staples
Last Saturday's mixed-bill affair at the Papercut Zine Library was a strange hybrid of contemporary salon, multimedia talent show, and impromptu modern-dance class (with instructions to move our bodies "like fire").
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  November 18, 2008
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San Francisco treat

Deerhoof at the Middle East Downstairs, October 23, 2008
The SF-based Deerhoof performed at the Middle East a week ago Thursday with the amusingly repetitive precision of a puppet show or an assembly of wind-up toys.  
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 28, 2008
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Juana Molina | Un Día

Domino (2008)
Un Día shows Molina’s music in its weirdest, most mesmerizing, ideal version of itself.  
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 15, 2008
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Scarlet letters

The uptight killjoy in us
Sarah Vowell’s fifth book, The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead) — released on October 7 — examines New England Puritans with a meticulously researched, critical-yet-comical eye.  
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 09, 2008
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