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Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Arts

A buff Hair hits the Colonial
Aging Aquarian

Abraham and company deliver the goods
Mighty merchant

Jorma Elo and Anna Sokolow
What's in that box?

Mankell says goodbye to his hero and his readers
No fun

Using art to transform the Harvard Museum of Natural History — for one night
Animal house

Food

Review: Roast Beast
If you're going to do one thing, you might as well kill it

Life

Baseball non-stars
Big Fat Whale

Built for two: Bike Porn 4
Bike-curious

Cambridge author Caleb Neelon traces graffiti's hidden history
It was written

Captive audience
Failure

Fucking food trends: how do they work?
Mission to marzipan

How staying different saved street art in the Bean
Boston bombers

One person's graffiti is another's whitewash ...
Hoopleville

Photos: American History of Graffiti
Photos from Neelon and Gastman's American History of Graffiti

Photos: Steampunk Industrial Revolution Convention
A collective urge to glorify the past was, for a change, used for good instead of evil

Movies

Duncan Jones on solving Source Code
Game plan

Review: Certified Copy
Precious rather than profound, sententious rather than wise

Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Ferris Bueller, sans the wit and charm

Review: Happythankyoumoreplease
Trivial hipster quandaries

Review: Hop
Candy-colored, candy-pushing combo of animation and live action

Review: I Am
The "new" Shadyac is still a Hollywood hack

Review: Insidious
Campy haunted-house knockoff

Movies Continued

Review: Source Code
Stranger on a train

Review: Sucker Punch
Loud, sexy, and inane

Review: Super
Tailor-made-for-the-midnight-circuit curio

Review: The Music Never Stopped
An exploration of music’s power to heal

Review: When We Leave
Honor bound

Music

Big Hurt: Chris Brown's problematic timing
Almost saved!

Britney Spears | Femme Fatale
Jive (2011)

Cut Copy elevate the cycle of rock and dance
Heights & music

Ilona Kudina, Gretchen Parlato, and Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet
Magic flute and more

Parts & Labor | Constant Future
Jagjaguwar (2011)

Photos: Cold War Kids at House of Blues
Cold War Kids | House of Blues | March 22, 2011

The return of the Rock 'n' Roll Rumble
Battlefield

The Sounds | Something To Die For
SideOneDummy (2011)

Wire maintain a sharpness through evolution
Electric editors

Wye Oak | Civilian
Merge (2011)

Yelle | Safari Disco Club
Barclay Records (2011)

News

Dirty 'work'
Letters to the Boston editor, April 1, 2011

It's a reasonable bet that gaming could once again gridlock Beacon Hill
Slow play

Libya: Why Obama is right
What's wrong with saving lives?

Steampunk's not dead
In which our hero attends a convention

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Not What You Think''
Be prepared for some criticism

Review: Dragon Age 2
Building character