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Scratch and Whiff

A non-junkie lottery player comes to grips with cardboard crack
I have 53 fully scratched (and completely worthless) Billion Dollar Bonanza scratch tickets sitting in my desk drawer. Each cost $20.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  July 17, 2009
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Numbed by Numbers

Children of the Dnipro  should show, not tell
Such a difficult task, bringing horrific historical events to theatrical life. Ironically, the more vast the horror, the more difficult the challenge. Imagine the full sweep of something as enormous as the Holocaust reduced to stage scale.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  June 09, 2009

Play by Play: April 10, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 08, 2009
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Slideshow: Dropkick Murphys at House of Blues

Photos of Dropkick Murphys, live at House of Blues, on March 12, 2009
At the House of Blues in Boston on March 12, 2009
By ERIC BAUMANN  |  March 17, 2009
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Jeanne Connolly, 1957-2009

Beloved, Bar None
Jeanne Connolly, who died Monday after a 16-month battle with colon cancer, was the ebullient presence behind the bar at T.T. the Bear's Place for more than two decades.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  February 19, 2009

The making of a House party



By JIM SULLIVAN  |  February 04, 2009
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Open House

After more than a year of construction and relative quiet, the Lansdowne Street music scene is about to be reborn
I put on the obligatory hard hat and walk through the doors of what used to be Avalon on Lansdowne Street, across from Fenway Park. To the layman — me — it's all dust, noise, metal, and mess.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  February 06, 2009
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The Front Page

Breaking news: timeless fun at 2nd Story
The Front Page 's timeless fun at 2nd Story
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  January 28, 2009
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Interview: The Damned's Captain Sensible

The Damned carry on
"School teachers and lawyers come along to see the Damned. . .and they want to see really bad behavior."
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 03, 2009
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Visions of Sugar Dish

The Nutcracker meets burlesque
Vanessa White, stage-name Sugar Dish, was lying on her couch this past spring, watching the Joffrey Ballet on TV, when "it just popped into my brain. The name came first."
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  December 12, 2008
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Local influence

WFNX is keeping it close to home
In a day when so much radio seems less and less local, WFNX remains in touch.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  December 03, 2008
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Shirts off their backs

How To Dress Like a Rock Star
How To Dress Like a Rock Star
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  November 20, 2008
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Interview: Billy Bragg

Mr. Love & Justice on the Clash, the Queen, and preaching to the choir
English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg once called himself “a one-man band who thinks he’s the Clash.”  
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  October 15, 2008
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Bringing up Baby

The most famous three-legged, barkless dog in the world
Few things in life are certain, but this is: a gentle, white miniature poodle named Baby is the most famous three-legged, barkless dog in the world.  
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  October 01, 2008
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Neil comes to Fenway

Hot Diamond-on-Diamond action
First song: “Sweet Caroline”— that Fenway anthem that booms throughout the park in the middle of every eighth inning. An hour later, Diamond  played the thing again “for anyone who came late to the show.” And then, one more time .
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  August 29, 2008
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Lucky, beautiful, and, now, holy

Rev Run runs straight
He was the king of rock, there was no higher . The sucker MCs, they should call him sire .
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  August 20, 2008
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Interview: Shane West

Too late to stop
The actor discusses the Germs . . . and ER.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  August 19, 2008
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Club-to-theater update

Venue shifts
“If you take the biggest 100 names in comedy, you’ll see 90 of them here in the next couple of years.”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  August 13, 2008
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Slideshow: RIP Mr. Butch

Photo tribute to street musician and Allston fixture
Photo tribute to street musician and Allston fixture
By K.BONAMI AND KELLY DAVIDSON  |  August 01, 2008
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We are Devo

The return of Akron’s finest
It’s been almost three decades since five guys in baggy yellow industrial clean-up suits sporting the letters D, E, V, and O took the Paradise stage, jerking about like robots, playing clipped, caustic art punk.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  June 17, 2008
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Boston music news: May 9, 2008

Notes on Unbusted and the Dresden Dolls
The album recorded in 2005 by Unbusted— the Martha’s Vineyard core of the Billionaires — has indeed seen the light of day.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  May 06, 2008
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Boston music news: May 2, 2008

Notes on Girls Guns and Glory and new happenings in Worcester
Girls Guns & Glory celebrate the release of their third CD, Inverted Valentine , May 2 at the Middle East downstairs, with support from the Everyday Visuals.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  April 29, 2008
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Boston music news: April 25, 2008

Notes on Revolutionary Snake Ensemble and the Unseen
“As far as I know,” says saxophonist Ken Field, “ Forked Tongue is the only CD ever released to include songs by both Ornette Coleman and Billy Idol.”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  April 22, 2008
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Boston music news: April 11, 2008

Notes on the future of the Paradise Lounge and more
Notes on the future of the Paradise Lounge and more
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  April 08, 2008
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New bottle

Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed’s vintage sounds
“A lot of today’s music is a little bit ironic," says Reed, and I don’t have any of that. It’s not about irony.”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  April 07, 2008
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Kink appeal

Ray Davies hits the road
We’d go through a lot of ups and downs, and I’d think sometimes we could have achieved less and been just as happy.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  April 01, 2008
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Boston music news: April 4, 2008

Notes on Beehive and Shred
The hip South End restaurant/club the Beehive is indeed a hub of activity.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  April 01, 2008
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Bred in the bone

Joe Perry’s kids get their rocks off in TAB the Band
Sometimes the apples don’t fall far from the tree.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 18, 2008
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Boston music news: March 21, 2008

Notes on Brian Viglione, the Unseen, and Girl Authority
When Trent Reznor made the new Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV available as a download earlier this month, all the hype was about the method of its release.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 18, 2008
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Celtic tigers

Interview: the Chieftains at Symphony Hall — again
At 69, Paddy Moloney is still the world’s foremost uilleann-pipes player.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 12, 2008

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