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Thursday, July 15, 2010

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Arts

Down and dirty
The race to find the world's deepest hole

Finding art in the oil
Emergency Benefit Dept.

Gloucester Stage's 'Tender' is more mean than funny
Where turgid self-pity meets spiteful witlessness

Harvey Pekar: 1939 - 2010
In memoriam

Interview: Naomi Novik on her Temeraire series
From Neverwinter Nights to the Napoleonic War — with dragons

New directions
Docu vs. deadpan at the PRC, and new painting at BU’s 808

Photos: Documenting the Global Recession at the Photographic Resource Center
"Crisis & Opportunity," now at the Photographic Resource Center through August 1, 2010.

Review: Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
Alexander Zaitchik methodically unravels Glenn Beck's Christmas sweater

Slideshow: Harvey Pekar
Artifacts from the David Bieber archives of the late comic-book writer's work

Food

Canteen
Bringing the virtues of locavorism to the necessities of a quick meal

Khayyam Restaurant
Glorious kebabs, and so much more

Life

Al Gore and the facts
Idiot Box

Beervertisement
Big Fat Whale

Photos: ConnectiCon 2010
ConnectiCon at the Connecticut Convention Center | July 9-11, 2010

Photos: World Cup revelers on Lansdowne Street
Soccer fans celebrate the final game of the 2010 World Cup

The doctor is in
Hoopleville

You could fry an egg on the sidewalk
Failure

Movies

Review: [REC] 2
[REC] 's contagion rages again

Review: Breaking Upwards
It isn't pretty, but it works

Review: Eccentricities of a Blond-Haired Girl
The film's eccentric, also

Review: Inception
Set the snooze alarm

Review: Predators
Can't get the Governator? Cast a real actor!

Review: The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko Kids us not about family values

Review: The Law
What a goofy choice for a film restoration

Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Cage can't redeem this one

Review: Wild Grass
Exasperating

Music

Big Boi | Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Def Jam Recordings (2010)

Ceschi | The One Man Band Broke Up
Fake Four (2010)

Crooked Fingers | Reservoir Songs II
Foreign Leisure Records (2010)

Fenway Park goes classical
A new landmark for the Landmarks Orchestra

Music Continued

Fiddle me this
Kingsley Flood don't even like alt-country

Glam makeover
A reborn Alejandro Escovedo hits the Streets

Hip-hop's royal gains
Prince Paul's got perspective

Kylie Minogue | Aphrodite
EMI/Astralwerks (2010)

Marina and the Diamonds | The Family Jewels
Chop Shop | 2010

Mighty Mahler
Michael Tilson Thomas leads Tanglewood's opening night

Photos: Cheap Trick and Squeeze at Bank of America Pavilion
Cheap Trick and Squeeze, live at Bank of America Pavilion, on July 14, 2010

Photos: ''Legacy: Year 1'' with DJ Sterling Golden
Celebrating 150 years of music | Model Café | July 14, 2010

Photos: Unrest at T.T. the Bear's Place
Unrest | T.T. the Bear's Place | July 8, 2010

Photos: Warped Tour 2010
Warped Tour 2010 | Comcast Center | July 13, 2010

Review: Cheap Trick and Squeeze
Live at Bank of America Pavilion, July 14, 2010

The Big Hurt: Critic proof
The wacky world of Allstar Weekend

Time travelers
The Either/Orchestra go to Groovy World, plus Ameranouche and Shelley Neill dig their Gypsy souls

Tommy Keene | Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 1983 - 2009
Second Motion (2010)

News

Furthermore … Soggy Chinese Leftovers and other truths about life as a vegetarian
Consumer Reports tackles the veggie lifestyle

Fuzzy on muzzles
Letters to the Boston editor, July 16, 2010

Gay-marriage win; progressive agenda loss?
Court Complications

Immigration activists miss a chance
Off Base

Rough Seas Ahead
Will the economy, the oil spill, and Afghanistan conspire to sink Obama's presidency?

Size matters
Big banks escape effective regulation; plus DOMA and "prison reform"

Static at BNN
Boston's community cable channel is awash in political intrigue and infighting, raising some questions: who is responsible to whom, and for what?

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Waiting to inhale''
Don't hold your breath

Escape from Soccer City
Outside the World Cup, seeing South Africa in black and white

Red card
Sports Blotter: Brazilian soccer, four rottweilers, and one of the ugliest tales in sports-crime history

Review: Crackdown 2
Power struggle