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Thursday, August 25, 2011

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Arts

A postmodern dance lineage sings
Forest forays
George Pelecanos's Spero falls short
War zero
Newton's New Art Center exposes heavy metal from within
The black art
Slideshow: ''We Still See the Black'' at New Art Center
A slideshow of images from the ''We Still See the Black'' show at New Art Center through October 14, 2011.
Tina Packer tackles Molly Ivins
Patriot game

Food

Boston bartenders bust up the Big Easy
Strange tales
Review: Otto Pizza
Painting the palate in Harvard Square

Life

College Etiquette Guide
Big Fat Whale
Stunt pizzas
Hoopleville
The future is boring
Failure

Movies

Review: Aurora
Deepening the mystery
Review: Brighton Rock
Rowan Joffe's adaptation of Graham Greene's 1939 novel
Review: Chasing Madoff
Jeff Prosserman's documentary
Review: Don't be Afraid of the Dark
Don't call it a comeback
Review: Griff the Invisible
Downtrodden superheroes
Review: Mysteries of Lisbon
Raúl Ruiz's legacy
Review: Our Idiot Brother
Jesse Peretz's obnoxious comedy
Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
S trictly for the kiddies

Music

Anthrax | Worship Music
Megaforce Records (2011)
Beirut | The Rip Tide
Pompeii (2011)
Braid | Closer to Closed
Polyvinyl (2011)
CSS | La Liberacion
Downtown Records (2011)

Music Continued

Dave Mustaine's righteous path
Tragic hero
Dear ‘girlfriend metal’: Fuck you and the Facebook page you rode in on
Take this genre and shove it
Inside the underworld of Crepusculo Negro
Black magic
Male Bonding | Endless Now
Sub Pop (2011)
Out: Revocation display extreme metal form
Thrashachusetts
Photos: KMFDM + Army of the Universe + Human Factors Lab at Club Royale
Club Royale | August 17, 2011
Photos: Team Friendship at the Plough and Stars
Plough and Stars | August 10, 2011
Rainbow coalition
Hair-metal royalty, working-class meatheads, and six-year-olds still mingle at LA’s Rainbow Bar & Grille
Rediscovering Metallica with a new bio
Write the Lightning
Shaping noise into extreme metal with Sewer Goddess
The grimy underground
Tampa re-emerging as a death-metal hotbed
Dark rays
The Big Hurt: Hot singles of August 23, 1986
Who charted?
Tom Hambridge | Boom!
Black Rose Records (2011)
Why there won't ever be another 'Big Four' - and why that's a good thing
The state of metal

News

A libertarian's view of the Barstool/Brady child-porn fiasco
Freedom Watch
For Memphis Three, a bitter guilty plea
Prosecutorial discretion
Letters to the Boston editors, August 26, 2011
Minority report and empty capsules
The Globe vs. The MFA
Sometimes, even accuracy is misleading

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Fill 'Er Up''
With the right letters

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