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Thursday, February 03, 2011

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Arts

Poems, prose, and the New Yorker
Elizabeth Bishop goes pop

Psy at the Majestic, Savion Glover at the Opera House
Getting off the ground and into it

Review: SpeakEasy makes the best of Nine
Less than 10

Review: The Druid’s fine trip to Inishmaan
Cripple kicking

The man in the yellow fur coat
As the Boston Athenaeum stages an Edward Gorey retrospective, his biographer reflects on the artist's lasting legacy

Tim Wu, historian of information empires
Net brutality

Food

Blue Asia
Pan-Asian cuisine with complimentary manga

Review: Cognac Bistro
An outstanding French take on local goodness

Life

2011 Valentines
Big Fat Whale

Beer bottle football
Hoopleville

Interpreting mass die-offs
Big Fat Whale

Season affecting decisions
Failure

Self-inspection
Failure

Movies

Love might be awarded at this year's Sundance Festival, but anger holds sway
Hope and fury

Review: Barney's Version
Tale of a sad-sack chick magnet

Review: On the Bowery
The quintessential skid row

Review: The Mechanic
Hackneyed retooling of a 1972 thriller

Review: Undertow
A story of loss

Review: Williams S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Prime footage

Music

Beth Ditto | Beth Ditto EP
Deconstruction (2011)

Dom | Sun Bronzed Greek Gods [Remastered] + more
Astralwerks/Burning Mill (2011)

Eulogies | Tear the Fences Down
Dangerbird Records (2011)

Gang of Four roar back with post-punk fury
Still in uniform

Music Continued

Iron & Wine | We Kiss Each Other Clean
Warner Bros. (2011)

James Blake | James Blake
PID (2011)

Laura Stevenson moves from aggression to affirmation
Yes we Cans

Mean Creek lead a rocking Allston block party
Out: Choose your own adventure

Photos: Cage the Elephant at the Ames Hotel
WFNX Acoustic Session with Cafe the Elephant at the Ames Hotel, January 11, 2011

Photos: Linkin Park at the TD Garden
Linkin Park | TD Garden | February 1, 2011

Photos: The Decemberists at the House of Blues
The Decemberists | House of Blues | January 29, 2011

Photos: Tokyo Police Club and Two Door Cinema Club at the Paradise
Tokyo Police Club + Two Door Cinema Club | Paradise Rock Club | January 19, 2011

Review: Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis
Boston Lyric Opera pulls out the stops

Sweden's Radio Dept. create musical graffiti
Art for pop's sake

The David Wax Museum and Tierney Sutton bridge tradition with the here and now
Border crossings

Walter Sickert leads a band of musical misfits
A Broken Toy story

Winning the future
The week in press releases

News

Fake gays not protesting IFC-distributed rape film
Epic fail dept.

Hitting a nerve
Letters to the Boston editor, February 4, 2011

The GOP's top dog? It's T-Paw, not Mitt.
Pawlenty tops our list

The secret life of a Charlestown drug dealer
Hickey flipped for the Feds — and lived to make a movie about it

What's gotten into Egypt?
Plus, Republicans for same-sex marriage, and trying to kill health-care reform

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Yee-Haw!''

Review: Dead Space 2
The engineer, unmasked

Should sportswriters be allowed to gamble on sports?
Sucker bet