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Thursday, August 12, 2010

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Arts

Fashionably great
Richard Avedon dresses up the MFA, plus Nicholas Nixon's family album

Perfect worlds
J.C. Hallman's utopias

Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA
"Avedon Fashion: 1944 - 2000" now at the Museum of Fine Arts through January 17, 2011

Play by Play: August 13, 2010
Theater listings, week of August 13, 2010

Spider man
Richard III weaves his web in Lenox

Food

Saigon Restaurant
Proof that Eastie's fine budget restaurants aren't limited to the Western Hemisphere

Sichuan Gourmet
A tale of two dinners

Life

Always hot or cold
Failure

Craptastic Book Club
Big Fat Whale

Drinking stories
How Boston's best barkeeps survived five days of around-the-clock cocktails

Kings of the road
Keep on Food Truckin'

Photos: One Night in Boston 2010
Fifteen photographers. Nine hours.

Secure borders start at home
Hoopleville

The unethical journalism of WikiLeaks
Matt Bors

Movies

Interview: Hugh Hefner
Porn or erotica?

Michael Cera Is Very Small
Dept. of Junkets

Naked truth
George Kuchar exposed at the HFA

Review: Eat Pray Love
Blah, Blah, Blah

Review: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Rabbit run: Hef poses as a history maker

Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Que Cera, Cera: From ink to screen, Scott Pilgrim shows no progress

Review: Step Up 3D
Pass the Dramamine

Review: The Expendables
Aptly named

Review: The Extra Man
Adaptation of Jonathan Ames' novel may leave you bored to death

Review: The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest
Could Mallory and Irvine have survived?

Music

BUMP up the volume
City Hall Plaza all the rage for 10,000 revelers

Candy Claws | Hidden Lands
twosyllable (2010)

Danse macabre
Crystal Castles toughen up synth-pop

Darker My Love | Alive as You Are
Dangerbird (2010)

Music Continued

Drum circle
Man Forever's John Colpitts finds his rhythm

Eli ''Paperboy'' Reed | Come and Get It!
Capitol Records (2010)

Feeding frenzy
The media rain on James Levine's parade, plus Boston Midsummer Opera

Leader of the pack
Ray LaMontagne rounds up the Pariah Dogs for his fourth album

Newport notes
A weekend of want-to-see

Photos: 2010 Boston Urban Music Festival with Young Riot, Wiz Khalifa, and Ryan Leslie
Live from the B oston Urban Music Festival at Boston City Hall Plaza, on August 7, 2010

Photos: Crowd shots at the 2010 Boston Urban Music Festival
Live from the Boston Urban Music Festival at Boston City Hall Plaza | August 7, 2010

Photos: Girls Rock Camp Benefit concert
Girls Rock Camp Benefit concert | T.T. the Bear's Place | July 25, 2010

Photos: KISS at the Comcast Center | August 7, 2010
KISS, live at the Comcast Center, on August 7, 2010

Photos: Newport Jazz Festival 2010
Dave Brubeck, Anant Cohen, Wynton Marsalis, Lucia Micarelli, Grace Kelly, Maria Schneider and more, August 6 - 8, 2010

Photos: Scenes from Girls Rock Camp 2010
Where "everything is music," and nothing — not even Journey — is uncool

Punk Rock Girls
At this all-female day camp run by Boston rock royalty, nothing is uncool

Robert Schipul | Summersky
Starlet Records (2010)

Shake 'n' bake
The raw post-grunge pop of Earthquake Party!

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | Let It Sway
Polyvinyl (2010)

Squeeze | Spot the Difference
XOXO (2010)

The Big Hurt: This week in brand synergy
Blige, Bieber, and Sears connect the dots

News

Don't be fooled: the Google-Verizon plan would kill Net Neutrality
Evil

Federal trans-formation
Frustrating on high-profile LGBT issues, Barack Obama has moved quickly, with little fanfare, on gender-identity issues.

''Holy war'' holes
Letters to the Boston editor, August 13, 2010

Kooks on classics
Out of Tune Dept.

RecRoom

Food fights
Marshall football orders out, and Rick Pitino regrets getting table service

Review: Starcraft II
It's not too late to join the party

Taking his shot
Mission Hill's Will Blalock has played professional basketball all over the world, from Anaheim to Israel, but he's still trying to make it big.