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Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Arts

A first-time novelist at 87, UMass professor Joseph Zaitchik talks shop with his grandson, writer Alex Zaitchik
Writing in the family

A new book says 'smaller' cities could be the way of the future
Thinking small

Company One owns The Brother/Sister Plays
Louisiana purchase

Haacke and Piene at MIT
Natural phenomena

Photos: Boston Anarchist Book Fair 2011
Simmons College | November 11-13, 2011

Food

Budget-friendly Thanksgiving options for the kitchen-averse
Out for the holidays

Review: The Brahmin
Gourmet bits in Back Bay, never mind the history

Life

29 Cent Book Bin
Big Fat Whale

Barfield and friends
Failure

Extreme Science Fair
Dept. of nerdery

Photos: Siemens Foundation High School Science Fair
MIT hosted the regional finals of the Siemens Foundation's high school science fair on November 11-12, 2011.

Private cat doors
Hoopleville

Movies

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
Fishbone's quarter-century journey

Review: Being Elmo
A moving portrait of an unheralded artist

Review: Happy Feet Two
Crack-brained morality tale

Review: Jack and Jill
Easily Sandler's worst film

Review: The Descendants
For Clooney, it's all Payne, all gain

Review: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
Carl Colby documents his father's life

Music

25 years later, Buffalo Tom's frontman looks back at the early days
Career in rock

Anthony Gonzalez of M83 elevates his game
Plus, the revenge of the double album

Brian Eno | Panic of Looking
Warp (2011)

Caveman | Coco Beware
Magic Man! Records/ORG Music (2011)

Jeremy Dubs | Speak!
The Bureau (2011)

Music Continued

Los Campesinos! | Hello Sadness
Arts & Crafts (2011)

Mastodon simplify the heavy subject matter
Positive gains

Once jilted, Halle Petro abandons Broadway
Rock audition

Out: Parasol and Inky Skulls soundtrack the Anarchist Bookfair kickoff party
Sweet democracy

Photos: Fitz and the Tantrums at the House of Blues
House of Blues | November 11, 2011

Photos: Quilt + Great Valley at an Allston basement show
November 11, 2011

Photos: Time Travel Night at Machine
Machine | November 11, 2011

R.E.M. | Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011
Warner Bros (2011)

Rob Halford gives Judas Priest one last spin
Metal god

Sepalcure | Sepalcure
Hotflush Recordings (2011)

The Big Hurt: November Juggalo update
Persecuted, sued, and snitched on

Visualizing the experimental sound of Leisure
Green Light go pop

News

After the occupation
#OccupyBoston

Are cities trying to freeze the Occupy movement to death?
The Cold War

Carry on
Letters to the Boston Phoenix editors, November 18, 2011

Evicting Occupy
Boston's challenge. Plus, pedophilia and justice, and transgendered progress.

From the ''Sporting Eye'' Archives
From the Phoenix's George Kimball archives

It's Mitt & Scott's Party Now
Scott Brown and Mitt Romney, preparing for the 2012 microscope, are installing a faithful friend at the State GOP

Photos: Before and after the raid of Zuccotti Park
Occupy Boston protesters show their solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

Photos: Occupy Boston on the National Day of Action
Charlestown Bridge | November 17, 2011

/Boston

Photos: Scenes from Before and After the Raid of Zuccotti Park
Scenes from Occupy Boston's march in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street after the Tuesday-morning raid of Zuccotti Park.

RecRoom

Crossword: ''There Goes the Bride''
It was never meant to last.

Review: Uncharted 3
The Drake equation