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Thursday, November 24, 2011

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Arts

A new play about Adolf Eichmann traps itself
Captive

Erin Byers Murray digs for Duxbury bivalves
Shucking, but not jiving

Interview: James Wolcott's semi-dirty years
Cleaning up

Food

On the Cheap: Stoddard's Cutlery
Kitchen knives getting dull? Sharpen up at this blade emporium

Review: Artisan Bistro
Not the old Ritz, but still very useful for many needs

Life

Black Friday Bargains
Big Fat Whale

Photos: Sin-O-Matic at Machine (NSFW)
Machine | November 19th, 2011

Thanksgiving pot luck
Failure

Thanksgiving Word Find
Hoopleville

Movies

Review: Arthur Christmas 3D
Sarah Smith's revisionist Santa Claus

Review: Hugo
A valentine to early cinema

Review: My Week with Marilyn
Kiss-and-tell-memoir

Review: Passione
John Turturro tours his beloved city for this documentary

Review: The Muppets
A Muppets for our ironic age

Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Unfilmable and inscrutable

Music

Baths submerse electronics in dreamy detail
Kind of blue

Click Animosity and the opposite of the frat rap game
Audacity of dope

Coliseum | Parasites
Temporary Residence Limited (2011)

Confessin' the blues ... and a whole lot more
Agachiko

Digitalism dance to the harmony of song
Heartthrob

Frat rap is ready to graduate
It's been four years since "I Love College" -- now it's party time!

Music Continued

Gorillaz | The Singles Collection: 2001-2011
Virgin (2011)

Ludovic Morlot at the BSO; Philippe Jaroussky with Apollo's Fire
Morlot's fire

Out: The Dropkicks Murphys steal the scene at the Boston Music Awards; Viva Viva, Mean Creek, and Moufy also honored
Still shipping

Photos: Airborne Toxic Event + Mona at the Orpheum Theatre
November 19, 2011 | Orpheum Theatre

Photos: Foo Fighters + Social Distortion + The Joy Formidable at the TD Garden
November 16, 2011 | TD Garden

Photos: Peter Murphy + She Wants Revenge at the Middle East
Middle East Downstairs | November 17, 2011

Tegan & Sara | Get Along
Warner Bros. (2011)

The Big Hurt: Trey Songz's 'YUUP!,' Juelz Santana's terrorist threat, Fat Joe's 'gay mafia,' and Adam Ant's mental health
Music news in brief

The Rolling Stones | Some Girls
Universal

The Who | Quadrophenia: The Director's Cut
UMC (2011)

Wussy | Strawberry
Shake It (2011)

News

A PERF-ect Storm
How a nonprofit led by Boston's finest peacemakers was blamed for the Occupy crackdowns

Creating 'living monuments' to young lives lost
Stop the violence

From Seattle to Oakland, Occupy efforts are fighting back at establishment brutality
Wild Wild West Coast

Interview: Police Executives' Research Forum Director Chuck Wexler
PERF’s Boston-connected leader discusses role in Occupy conference calls

Revisiting Nixon in China
Grand Opera and Anti-Opera

Stop SOPA
Old-media corporate giants seek censorship through a web-based blacklist. Plus, #occupy brutality, and D.C. deadlock.

The Right To Occupy
Boston's 99-percenters head to court next week, perhaps with the future of the movement at stake

Whoop whoop
Comments to the Boston Phoenix , November 25, 2011

RecRoom

Crossword: ''No Way!''
Let's clean it up

Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
What did you expect?