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Thursday, February 11, 2010

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Arts

Bon appétit!
The delicious art of Luis Meléndez

Flickers
'11+1' at Outpost 186

Improv Asylum presents Scott Brown: The Musical
Tax Relief? Good Grief!

Play by play: February 12, 2010
Theater listings, February 12, 2010

Present laughter
Trinity throws a Twelfth Night party

Review: Patti Smith's Just Kids
The small prophecies of Patti Smith

Slideshow: The MFA's Luis Melendez exhibit
"Master of the Spanish Still Life," now showing through May 9, 2010

Wolf man
Henning Mankell stalks globalization

Food

Bistro du Midi
Fine, but not necessarily French

Zaps
Polish street food that's much better than it sounds

Life

10 least romantic places in greater Boston
Plenty of options for lonely hearts this Valentine's Day

Corporate History Month
Idiot Box

How to Celebrate Presidents' Day 2010
Big Fat Whale

Peanut butter on rice cakes
Failure

President's Day 2010
Hoopleville

What a prick!
The not-so-pretty secrets of the pretty-flower business.

Movies

Hanging with The Hurt Locker
Oscars East

Interview: Daniel Ellsberg
"The Most Dangerous Man in America" talks on the documentary about him and his time at the Pentagon

Review: From Paris With Love
Laced with Gallic bile

Review: North Face
A fit of Nazi peak

Review: Saint John of Las Vegas
Dante's Inferno comes to Sin City

Review: The Most Dangerous Man in America
Hail to Daniel Ellsberg

Review: Until The Light Takes Us (2008)
Darkness with a capital 'D'

Review: Valentine’s Day
A terrible case of VD

Movies Continued

Rocky Mountain low
A little frayed, the Sundance brand endures

Music

A sister act
In addition to their bio, Tegan and Sara also have songs

African Head Charge | Vision Of Psychedelic Africa
On U Sound (2010)

Better late than ever
Refuse Resist are enough to make a grown man try

Double trouble
BLO's The Turn of the S crew, Levine's Carter and Simon Boccanegra, Teatro Lirico, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, and more

Fela Kuti | The ’69 L.A. Sessions
Knitting Factory (2010)

Japanimayhem
Tokyo's Polysics cannot play music in calmness

Local Natives | Gorilla Manor
Frenchkiss (2010)

Midlake | The Courage Of Others
Bella Union (2010)

No connections
Assaf Kehati Quartet at the Regattabar, Hiromi at Scullers, February 5, 2010

Review: La Roux at the Paradise
Paradise Rock Club, January 31, 2010

Steampunk and Lima Beans
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the Bert Seager Trio

The Big Hurt: Dispatches from Splitsville
FOB fall out; Scorpions subsist; Tyler frightens shoppers

Tom Caruana Presents: Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers | Wu-Tang Vs. The Beatles
Tea Sea (2010)

Yeasayer | Odd Blood
Secretly Canadian (2010)

News

Clearing the air
Letters to the Boston editor, February 12, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day 2010
From Hoopleville, with love

New and improved Romney
He's more fiscal, less social. And he's got millions. But will GOP voters give a Mitt?

Ransom Notes
Was the NY Times being hypocritical when it suppressed coverage of its journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban?

Romney's new character: Macho man
In his new book, Mitt makes himself over as a muscular defender of America

The Phoenix cleans up at NENPA
Tooting Our Own Horn Dept.

TV's conservative bias
The Palin question asked and answered; plus, rescuing Lawrence

RecRoom

Crossword: ''From Milk''
We deserve these phrases

Review: Mass Effect 2
The good Shepard returns

Texas stranger
A Dallas fullback plays cowboys and valets; Plus, the Laird brothers learn from their elders