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Portland scene report: November 28, 2008

Sibilance  
The results of the WePushButtons Awards came in just a tad too late to get them in the last paper, so here's a quick recap of who took home what last Saturday at SPACE Gallery.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  November 26, 2008
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The Big Hurt: Weezy unplugged

Plus Auerbach unbound and Glitter undeterred
Our dream of a post-racial America moved one space closer to "king me" on the checkerboard of terrible metaphors this week
By DAVID THORPE  |  November 24, 2008
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Expressions of war

Don't miss the Takács Quartet at UNH
One of the best string quartets in the world will be within a D-string's distance from Portland, come Monday night.
By EMILY PARKHURST  |  November 12, 2008
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I’ve Loved You So Long

A crass and pretentious soap opera
So which portrayal of a victimized woman will win an Oscar this year?  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008
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Mood swing

The emotional gamut of Festival Ballet’s  Giselle
She is Giselle, the peasant girl of Adolph Adam’s ballet, and she’ll come to the VMA Arts & Cultural Center once again via Festival Ballet Providence.  
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  October 22, 2008

Going local?

Letters to the Boston editor, October 3, 2008
I have always enjoyed the Phoenix ’s coverage of the local goings-on with our consistently inept and mostly corrupt elected leaders at City Hall and the State House.  
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  October 03, 2008
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Annie

Don’t Stop | Island
Annie is adept at balancing bratty tweener kiss-off ’tude with dance-friendly bliss — meaning that someone over 16 can listen to her music without wincing.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  September 16, 2008
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The Tracey Fragments

A torturously stylized melodrama
Ellen Page is younger and less wise-ass than in her recent Oscar-nominated role, but thanks to the fragmentation, she’s at least as annoying.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 25, 2008
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North Shore's snazzy revival of contact

Plus, Gurnet’s Essential Self-Defense
For a Broadway show, contact is closer to Twyla Tharp than George M. Cohan.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 17, 2008
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’Round the outside

The most popular artists in our BMP have indie roots
Although music isn’t necessarily getting more political in content these days, it does seem to be borrowing a trope from the political world.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 19, 2008
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Soul purpose

The BellRays get us all kinds of worked up
The BellRays — whose married core is singer Lisa Kekaula and guitarist/bassist Bob Vennum — have been making music since 1990.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  May 19, 2008
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Nine is fine

Portland's Best Music Poll 2008
Thanks to the hundreds of you who ventured out right after work (or perhaps played hooky from work) on Wednesday night to attend our ninth annual Best Music Poll Portland Music Awards Show.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  May 14, 2008
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Make believe

The songs are the draw in Drowsy Chaperone
Of the five Tony Awards that The Drowsy Chaperone swept up in 2006, Lisa Lambert’s co-win with Greg Morrison for Best Original Score was the real prize.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  May 07, 2008

Hot and cold

A revved-up Bang Camaro and techno Freezepop lead the way
Bands and artists do have a way of coming and going here in Boston.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 07, 2008

Winning losers

Stand up for your write(-ins)
Every last one of you who votes in our Best Music Poll is a treasure; but blessed are those who write-in.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  May 07, 2008
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Who's going to win?

2008 Portland Best Music Poll tote board
I give you the BMP Tote Board, handicapping the big categories — because who doesn’t like reducing real life to betting lines?
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  April 30, 2008
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Newspapers censor Bono’s ‘fucking’ gaffe

The FCC’s ‘broadcast indecency’ rules: Still, well, bullshit
Why does our ostensibly “free” press insist on acting like prudes or cowards when reporting stories for which it’s vital that readers learn someone said “fuck” rather than an undefined “expletive”?
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  March 12, 2008
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The French are coming

Justice and Busy P bring the Ed Banger sound to Boston
The launch of an extensive North American tour sponsored by MySpace that comes to the Paradise this Saturday.
By BEN WESTHOFF  |  March 10, 2008
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Die fälscher|The Counterfeiters

Not worth the Oscar
It’s fitting that a film called Die fälscher|The Counterfeiters should have won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, since that’s the most bogus category in the bunch.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 05, 2008

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