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Thursday, December 09, 2010

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Arts

Gift Guide 2010: Books that'll make your coffee table look smart
Rock of Pages

Gift Guide 2010: Graphic novels and comic anthologies

MFA reinstates women's art prize
Unrewarded

Review: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Plus Mrs. Grinchley; Merrimack's Beasley; Stoneham's Pageant

Food

Flatbread Company at Sacco's Bowl Haven
A trip down Sacco's memory lanes

Petit Robert Central
Jacky's empire strikes back

Life

A study in absurdist sex dialogue
Failure

Adventures at Tech Mart
Hoopleville

Boston's Best Indie Craft Fairs: Welcome to Craftghanistan
A never-ending quagmire of felted owls, twee pirates, and racy onesies

Filthy Rich Facts
Big Fat Whale

Here comes Weeda Claus
And the Smoke Encircled His head Like a Wreath

Holiday Gifts for People We Hate
When a lump of coal just won't do

Regretsfully yours: A holiday stroll through the bowels of Etsy with April Winchell (a/k/a Helen Killer)
It's the most garbage-ful time of the year

She's too damn controlling
Reality Check

Movies

Interview: Mark Wahlberg
The good fight: the actor on bringing Micky Ward to the big screen

Review: Die Nibelungen
Fritz Lang's other classic

Review: I Love You Phillip Morris
Should have been a drama instead

Review: Queen of the Lot
Tanna Frederick not so irritating this time

Review: Spring Fever
Artful, dreary, and pointless

Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Kind of like looking for the Horcruxes in The Deathly Hallows , only less fun

Review: The Fighter
Family feud: the toughest bouts are outside the ring

Review: The Warrior's Way
Dong-gun Jang's worst enemy: his director

Review: Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham makes herself at home

Six Boston accents worthy of Oscar
Pahk the awahds in Hahvahd Yahd

Music

Bombay Bicycle Club | Flaws
Island (2010)

Buff1 and DJ Rhettmatic | Crowne Royal
Fat Beats (2010)

Henry Threadgill's untrackable journey
Impractical genius

Ke$ha | Cannibal
RCA (2010)

Matt Wilson | Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O
Palmetto (2010)

Pascal Pinon | Pascal Pinon
MORR Music (2010)

Photos: Boston Music Awards 2010
Boston Music Awards 2010 | Liberty Hotel | December 5, 2010

Photos: SSLLOOWW with Avoxblue
Avoxblue | Middlesex Lounge | November 30, 2010

Pre-Weezer: The Metal Years
Rivers' edge

Reading Rainbow | Prism Eyes
HoZac (2010)

Reflecting on the solo path of Faces on Film
The isolated chronicler

Review: BEMF's Dido and Aeneas
Plus the BSO's Schumann and Harbison, Haochen Zhang, and a Concert for the Cure

The Big Hurt: Cidade de Biebs
Why was Justin Bieber in the mansion of a Rio drug lord?

The future was now at the 2010 BMAs
Scene together

The historical strum of Bert Jansch
Folk lure

The schlock opera of Peaches Christ Superstar
The last rubber

The Sunshine Factory | Sugar
Self-released (2010)

News

A planet falls
Letters to the Boston editor, December 10, 2010

Interview: Boston City Councilor Matt O'Malley
The new kid

The velvet rope of prejudice?
Race relations

Wiki paradoxes
Plus, kudos to Council and DeLeo

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Getting Hotter''
Step by step, it'll all get done

Gift Guide 2010: DVD Box Sets
Sureties and obscurities

Gift Guide 2010: Ski and snowboard accessories
Buck up, little shopper

Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns
Monkey shines