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Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Arts

Boston Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
 Moonstruck
Dale Chihuly's glass wonderlands, plus Shellburne Thurber
No competition
David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
Final words
Photos: Boston Ballet's A Midsummer Night's Dream
At the Opera House through April 17
Slideshow: Chihuly: Through The Looking Glass at Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts | Through August 7, 2011
Underground Railway Theater cracks Breaking the Code
Top secrets

Food

Review: Island Creek Oyster Bar
A simple, confident take on clam-shack cuisine
Review: La Frontera
Your own mom should cook so beautifully

Life

Big picture
Failure
Dave Tompkins's Greatest Hits
"Fire crate" favorites
Does this book make me look smart?
Somervillian mocks the cult of David Foster Wallace with Tumblr-tastic 'People Holding Infinite Jest'
Lynda Barry in search of the image world
Drawing the line
Photos: ''Talk Nerdy 2 Me'' with Rogue Burlesque
"Talk Nerdy 2 Me" | Middlesex Lounge | April 13, 2011
Rewriting our gun laws
Hoopleville
Weapons in the War for Drugs
Big Fat Whale

Movies

Review: Atlas Shrugged
Not all books should be made into movies
Review: In a Better World
In a better movie
Review: Le Quattro Volte
Pythagoras, beyond the theorem
Review: Nine Nation Animation
Eclectic but masterful
Review: Rio
A vibrant visual feast
Review: The Conspirator
Redford doesn't do justice to his theme
Review: Your Highness
Clever spoof of sword ’n’ sorcery clichés

Music

2562 | Fever
When in Doubt (2011)
Blazing Hip-Hop and R&B
After the fire.
Floating heavyweights
Club d'Elf, Julian Lage, Jérôme Sabbagh, and Michael Feinberg
Foo Fighters | Wasting Light
Roswell/RCA (2011)

Music Continued

Fredrick | Flora
The Kora Records (2011)
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit | Here We Rest
Lightning Rod (2011)
Neutral Uke Hotel strum gaily over the sea
Flight from the hater brigade
O'Death embark on another folk-punk chapter
Musical afterlife
Out: Rock And Roll Rumble preliminary week
Don't call it a Battle of the Bands, k-thx
Panda Bear | Tomboy
Paw Tracks (2011)
Photos: Fifth night of preliminaries at Rock 'n' Roll Rumble
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling win the fifth night of Rumble preliminaries at TT's | April 8, 2011
Photos: Sixth night of preliminaries at Rock 'n' Roll Rumble
Sidewalk Driver win the sixth and final night of Rumble preliminaries at TT's | April 9, 2011
The Big Hurt: Britney, Billy Joel, John Mellencamp, Rebecca Black, and Miley Cyrus weigh the price of fame
Britney, Billy Joel, John Mellencamp, Rebecca Black, and Miley Cyrus weigh the price of fame
TV Ghost | Mass Dream
In the Red (2011)
Wax Museum
 Cringe worthy

News

An old monster re-awakens
 Fallout Boys
Choosing sides
New Hampshire's GOP operatives have lined up for the 2012 primary, and are ready to do battle
Estrogen influx for pot protesters
Tokin' females
Japan's Chernobyl
Plus, what's Donald Trump all about?
Letters to the Boston editor, April 15, 2011
Catch the pasty wave
Romney rides again
To win the GOP nomination, Mitt will need to do things differently this time. Here's how.

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Generally Speaking''
Time to lawyer up
Review: HBO's Game of Thrones
It's a long story
Review: Yakuza 4
Gangster’s paradise

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