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NINA MACLAUGHLIN

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Eating Out: Sloppy Seconds

Awful, awful, awful
Some movies are so bad they’re good — the Evil Dead trilogy comes to mind. Other movies are so bad, they make you want to jam sharp-pronged tools into your eyes. Watch the trailer for Eating Out: Sloppy Seconds
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 17, 2007

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The Animation Show 3

The height of animated art
The best of these 10 shorts will bust open conceptions of what it means to be a “cartoon.” In other words, Ducktales this ain’t. Watch the trailer for the Animation Show 3
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 16, 2007

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Healey quietly vetoes Bike Safety Bill

Unhappy trails  
As everyone but the most oblivious knows, Boston has a reputation for being one of the most inhospitable American cities for cyclists.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 11, 2007

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Romantico

For love or money
As Mark Becker’s steady, tender documentary opens, we find mariachi musician Carmelo Sanchez living illegally in San Francisco, playing his guitar and serenading people on the streets and in restaurants with his alcoholic partner Arturo.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 03, 2007

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PRC anniversary show

30 years and counting
The Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, has announced a call for entries for the 12th installment of its annual — and acclaimed — juried exhibition.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 20, 2006

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Off the Black

On the ball
The first 30 minutes of James Ponsoldt’s understated feature debut feel scripted; you can see the typed-up lines of dialogue in the exchanges between aging umpire Ray Cook and floppy-haired high-school pitcher Dave Tibbel. Watch the trailer for Off the Black  (MySpace)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 20, 2006

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Requiem

Exorcise this
Hans-Christian Schmid fictionalizes the real-life story of Anneliese Michel, a young German woman who died of exhaustion and starvation after a series of attempted exorcisms in the mid ’70s. Watch the trailer for Requiem (QuickTime)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  November 21, 2006

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Portrait of the artist as a dirty man

Jimmy’s letters to Nora
“This is so fucking tame compared to what’s coming,” says My Life in Heavy Metal author Steve Almond after reading a bit from his R-rated short stories on the stage at Great Scott last Tuesday night.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  November 20, 2006

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Pucker up

Not what you think
Whistling has always struck me as something that’s fun only for the whistler.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  November 15, 2006

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The uses of Heidi Julavits

Founding editor of the Believer on reading, writing, and response
Someone recently told Heidi Julavits that she’ll be remembered most for a Believer essay that appeared in the magazine’s March 2003 debut issue.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  November 15, 2006

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British Advertising Films of 2005

More like short films
American advertising agencies don’t trust the intelligence of their audiences. Or so you’ll conclude when you see how the Brits do TV commercials.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  October 11, 2006

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Reinas/Queens

Women of a certain age
Manuel Gómez Pereira’s ensemble comedy about five mothers and their sons the day before the young men are set to be married as part of Spain’s first legal gay marriage ceremony sends out whispers of Pedro Almodóvar. Watch the trailer for Queens  (QuickTime)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 20, 2006

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Hand of God

Grim stuff
Paul Cultrera was molested and raped by his family’s priest, Father Joseph Birmingham, in Salem in the mid ’60s, and he kept the secret into his 40s. Watch the trailer for Hand of God  
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 13, 2006

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Paper Dolls

Paper thin
Tomer Heymann documents the lives of five Filipino transsexuals who moved to Israel after 2000 when the country closed its borders to Palestinian workers and invited foreigners to make up the resulting labor shortage.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 06, 2006

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Read all about it

Some of Boston’s best bars have a literary history
Riding there red line from Central Square to Park Street recently, a friend of mine from Philadelphia surveyed the length of the train and said, “You don’t see this in Philly.”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 01, 2006

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Lessons for (college) life

What today’s freshmen can learn from yesterday’s seniors’ mistakes
All right, kiddos, listen up.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 01, 2006

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Mississippi blues

How a local Hurricane Katrina volunteer is changing the shape of relief work
Ever wonder what became of all the tax dollars and personal donations you sent to the Gulf Coast over the past year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Slideshow: Annie Card photographs the survivors and wreckage of Hurricane Katrina.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  August 29, 2006

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Gleam and grit

Central Square thrives with new bars and old veterans
This article originally appeared in the August 1 issue of  Stuff@Night .
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  August 18, 2006

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The Beales Of Grey Gardens

More of the same
In their 1975 film Grey Gardens , Albert and David Maysles documented the reclusive existence of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie, aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, in the women’s moldering East Hampton manse.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  August 09, 2006

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Two-wheeler tours

Bicycle camping around Boston and beyond
In a car, roaring down highways or rolling over country roads, there is much you will not see and much you will not feel.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 25, 2006
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