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Thursday, May 12, 2011

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Arts

Animal Crackers; plus Passing Strange and At Home at the Zoo
Marx madness
Chris Adrian's tragic enchantments
Magic night
Nell Breyer and Lostwax dance the unconscious
Dream games

Food

Review: Staff Meal
A new high-water mark for Boston street food
Review: The Abbey
Washington Square's new neighborhood jewel

Life

A trek through the Minuteman Trail
The Road More Travelled
Algebra!
Hoopleville
An interview with the co-founder of Tufts Bikes
Heller on wheels
At the Harvard Museum of Natural History, taxidermy takes on a new life
Dead in tooth and claw
Boston's handcrafted bicycle movement goes to Austin
High on bikes
Boston's new hubway system could transform how you get around town
Learning to share
Does the bike of your dreams offer more than just a shiny frame?
Pretty bikes
Patents pending
Big Fat Whale
Photos: 7th annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin
 Boston's handcrafted bicycle movement goes to Austin
Photos: International Steampunk City Festival at the Charles River Museum
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation | May 6-8, 2011
Protecting your dome in DIY fashion
HELL is other people
Radio clowns
How freeform Internet radio is giving voice to the strange, the crass, and the stoned
Slideshow: Bike cover art contest 2011
 Bob Maloney's Experimental Illustration Class at MassArt competed for the cover spot on the Phoenix's 2011 Bike Bible
The bike messenger is still alive and well in Boston
Technology, bad weather and pedestrians be dammed
The goggles-and-corset crowd invades the watch city
Steam power
Tickets tickets tickets?
Failure

Movies

In Bridesmaids, Kristen's women act like women
Wiig-ed out
Review: Bridesmaids
Wedding crasher
Review: Everything Must Go
A showcase of Ferrell's acting potential
Review: Forks Over Knives
Plenty of food for thought
Review: Hesher
A promise of things to come

Movies Continued

Review: Incendies
 Thrillingly philosophical art movie
Review: Jumping the Broom
The film tries to balance an improbable barrage of plotlines with crude ethnic jokes
Review: Last Night
 Tadjedin bounces from one couple to the other
Review: Saviors in the Night
A worthy entry in the Holocaust genre
Review: The Robber
 An existential fable worthy of Camus

Music

A reunited Papas Fritas find their way home
Around the world and back
Arctic Monkeys escape the pitfalls of buzz
Post-hype sleeper
Classified | Hand Shakes and Middle Fingers
Decon (2011)
Getting under the musical masks of Mighty Tiny
Carnival folk
Manchester Orchestra | Simple Math
Favorite Gentleman/Columbia (2011)
Mindless Self Indulgence | Tighter
The End (2011)
Moby | Destroyed
Mute (2011)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Expanded Collectors Editions | Let Love In | Murder Ballads | The Boatman's Call | No More Shall We Part
Mute/EMI (2011)
OUT: Ribs shine through a strobe in Allston, kick off East Coast tour
Rainbows bright
Owl City | All Things Bright and Beautiful
Universal Republic (2011)
Photos: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | April 27–May 6, 2011
Playing pretty at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Anthems and praise songs
The Big Hurt: Hit men get hit, plus Kid Rock, ICP, Dave Grohl, Steven Tyler, Lil B & Jay Electronica, and Bieberwatch
Music news in brief

News

All dogs go to probate court
In dog we trust
No more Mr. Nice Council
Five-way Boston bloodbath
Republicans continue to wage war on women
Plus, Beacon Hill follies, youth violence
Seeing things
#ScottoSawIt

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Dance Party''
Busting a few moves
Photos: MIT's Prom Dress Rugby Tournament 2011
"Where Beauty and Brawn Meet Brains"
Review: Mortal Kombat 9
Gross miskonduct
Saying farewell to The Office's Michael Scott
Human resources

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