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Thursday, February 09, 2012

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An intimate guide to dining in — and eating out — this Valentine's Day

Erotic Potluck
Food and sex have long been intimate bedfellows. What's the endgame of a dinner date but the prospect of the coital desserts waiting at home?

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO, CASSANDRA LANDRY, AND ARIEL SHEARER | February 08, 2012

Arts

Photos: LeVar Burton at Tufts University
February 3, 2012

Pinto and Pollak bring Oyster to the Paramount
Carnival of Waifs

Review: 69°S.: The Shackleton Project
An ethereal trip to the turn-of-the-century wilds of the South Pole

Food

An intimate guide to dining in — and eating out — this Valentine's Day
Erotic Potluck

Valentine's Day for the Frugal and Savvy Diner
Avoiding the V-Day fine-dining shit-show

Life

Love Hurts: Emo Valentine's Day Cards
Ease the pain of heartbreak with these clip-and-save Valentines

Today's hot careers
Hoopleville

Valentine's Day cards for cut-ups
Big Fat Whale

Words with Friends
Failure

Movies

Review: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Brad Peyton's sequel

Review: The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Animated
Standouts

Review: The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Documentary
Powerful images

Review: The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action
The Oscar nominees for Live Action Shorts come down to five conventional narratives.

Review: W.E.
Madonna's directorial debut

Music

A punk phenomenon grows up
Punk is dead, right?

All emo is local
Five scenes that grew organically

BLO illuminates Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Lighthouse
Beams of light and fright

Davis Square gets a new venue
Play Spaces

Die Antwoord | Ten$ion
Zef Recordz

Dominique Eade at Scullers
All about transparency

Emo: it might as well be a four-letter word
De-evolution

Music Continued

From nukes to necro with Toxic Holocaust
Thrash and glow

Inside the theatric folk appeal of You Won't
Willing Participants

Ital | Hive Mind
Planet Mu

J the S | The Last Days
Same Plate/Greater Good

Out: Speedy Ortiz come together
Building a Dreamhouse in Allston

Photos: The Darkness + Foxy Shazam at the Paradise Rock Club
February 3, 2012

Photos: The Kills at Royale
The Kills | Royale | Friday, February 3, 2012

Tennis | Young & Old
Fat Possum (2012)

The Big Hurt: The miracle of Japanese Wikipedia
The miracle of Japanese

The Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now?
Nonesuch (2012)

The Top 100 Emo Songs of All Time
A bummer ... but in an awesome way

Tim Berne composes himself
Freedom Writer

Van Halen | A Different Kind of Truth
Interscope

Vive la France
French music at the BSO; French opera at Boston Conservatory; plus, Peter Wispelwey, Judith Gordon, Russell Sherman and Frank Kelley, and Collage New Music

News

Can the Charles River Esplanade be transformed into the world's best park?
Seeing green

'It's Halftime in America'
Plus, same-sex marriage's latest boost

Mitt's Charlie Card
It's no surprise that Barack Obama would copy from Deval Patrick's re-election playbook. But why is Mitt Romney making Charlie Baker's mistakes?

PHOTOS: Knock Out Barstool Takes On BSS Blackout Party
Knock Out Barstool (KOB) rallies outside during Barstool Sports' Northeastern Blackout party on Thursday, February 2, 2012.

Reel-to-reel: A long-lost Malcolm X speech recovered
History Dept.

Twenty-nine-year-old Buddhist teacher Lodro Rinzler is the cool kid's Buddhist.
The sound of one hand clapping

RecRoom

Crossword: ''I Oh You One''
Or four, actually

Review: Soul Calibur V
Soulless