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Thursday, June 24, 2010

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Arts

Dutch courage
David Mitchell's Jacob de Zoet revises historical fiction

Photos: Topping Ceremony at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Gardner’s new wing takes shape

Unholy contraptions
Tavares Strachan's rockets, plus 'The Boat Show' at Drive By, and 'Sensed, Unseen' at GASP

Food

Review: Basho Japanese Brasserie
A tasty fusion of new and traditional Japanese fare

Review: Kelly's Roast Beef
A new Allston outlet captures the flavors, if not the charm, of the original

Life

Checking in with the Westboro Baptist Church
Idiot Box

Gassed-up seafood
Hoopleville

Give me back my bloody pad
Failure

The Great Unemployment Spill
Big Fat Whale

Movies

Interview: Mark and Jay Duplass
The Cyrus writer-directors keep it simple

Review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Passion among the titans

Review: Cyrus
Umbilical discord: The Duplass Brothers get Oedipal

Review: Grown Ups
Puerile adult humor ensues

Review: Jonah Hex
Disfigured antihero shacks up with a prostitute

Review: Knight and Day
Cruise's creepiness only adds to the role

Review: Le Amiche
An artsy, unsentimental chick flick

Review: Ondine
Mysterious mer-woman takes up with a fisherman

Review: Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Linking movies and Cubist painting

Stuff and nonsense
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle returns

Music

Against Me! | White Crosses
Sire (2010)

Dare to be filthy
Semi Precious Weapons celebrate partying and poverty

Don't mess with Neko
New Pornographers | House of Blues Boston | June 18, 2010

Dubb Sicks | Lifestyles Of The Sick And Fameless
Backyard Recordings (2010)

Kings of Queens
Why Mobb Deep are still the fittest

Light Pollution | Apparitions
Carpark (2010)

Photos: Courtney Love and Hole, live at House of Blues
Hole, live at House of Blues Boston, on June 23, 2010

Photos: Courtney Love at Ames
Courtney Love | Ames | June 23, 2010

Music Continued

Photos: Evelyn Evelyn at the House of Blues
Evelyn Evelyn | House of Blues | June 19, 2010

Photos: Isis and the Melvins at the Paradise
Isis and the Melvins at the Paradise | June 21, 2010

Photos: James Taylor and Carole King at the TD Garden
James Taylor + Carole King | TD Garden | June 19-20, 2010

Photos: New Pornographers at the House of Blues
New Pornographers | House of Blues | June 18, 2010

Quiet riot
The Points North don't need to be pushy

Review: Amanda Palmer and Evelyn Evelyn at the House of Blues
Twin pleasure

Review: Carole King and James Taylor
Live at TD Garden | June 19-20, 2010

Taio Cruz | Rokstarr
Mercury (2010)

The Big Hurt: Vince Neil acts his age
Plus The Situation singled, Drake unsurpassed, Pete Doherty denied, Lou Reed exonerated

The irresistible force of Dexter Romweber
Jetting

Twos for the road
Duos that did

Video: The 12 acts you should've seen at Bonnaroo 2010
From the xx to Jay-Z

Walter Sickert & The Army Of Broken Toys | Steam Ship Killers
Self Released (2010)

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby | Two-Way Family Favorites
Southern Domestic (2010)

News

Dear Phoenix Readers
A word from the new editor

Harper's Magazine, 1850-1980
The legacy of Willie Morris and Lewis H. Lapham

Holy war
How an unholy alliance of Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals seeks to control our lives

Homophobe to headline Boston's GospelFest
Gay Old Time Dept.

Mr. Patrick Goes to Franklin Park
'Deval in the 'Hood' Dept.

Riot squads
While Boston chilled, LA burned. What makes fans in some cities go wild — win or lose?

Same Old Faces
It's an outsider's year for candidates, but the consultants are old Beacon Hill mainstays. Plus, who spent what at the conventions, and Baker goes on TV first.

Save the pool
Plans to alter the magnificent reflecting pool at the Christian Science Center should not be allowed

Two sides to Guy
Boston Phoenix letters, June 25, 2010

RecRoom

Back to the future
Comedy Central resurrects Groening's other show

Crossword: ''Rumble in the Bowl''
Part of this unbalanced breakfast.

Review: Green Day: Rock Band
Repeat, repeat

Sports Blotter: Dead Duck
Oregon's Masoli finally stalls out; plus, a World Cup ambush, and Florida strikes back