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Portland chefs get Bizarre recognition

What's cooking?
This summer, I ate a junebug. Actually, I ate three junebugs, prepared three different ways.
By LEISCHEN STELTER | November 12, 2008

Crossword: ''My heart belongs to you''

A little organ music.

By MATT JONES | November 12, 2008

Mixed Magic’s Moby Dick goes to DC

Whale tale
In 2006, Pitts-Wiley wrote Moby Dick: Then and Now , a theatrical version of Herman Melville’s book, which joined the story of Captain Ahab chasing a great white whale to an urban tale of teenagers chasing “that Great White Thing” — cocaine.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | November 05, 2008

Half-baked Alaska

Why is the coldest state such a hotbed of corruption?
Until a couple months ago, did the state of Alaska ever cross your radar? Its chief exports were cute polar-bear screen savers and Northern Exposure .
By KARA BASKIN | November 10, 2008

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

An uninspired sit-com packed with Hollywood stars
It’s a light entertainment that can cash in with election-weary audiences.
By BRETT MICHEL | November 05, 2008

A hidden gem: RISD’s Nature Lab

Roving Eye
Spend a few minutes browsing RISD’s repository for shells, seeds, skins, and skeletons and you’ll see why — dead or alive — the Nature Lab is one of Providence’s most stimulating settings.
By PHILIP EIL | October 29, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Jon Rineman

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
I like to take my time surveying the voting booths, slowly walking past each one for about 20 minutes. Then I pick one, say, “Yes. This is the one. This will do."
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | October 29, 2008

San Francisco treat

Deerhoof at the Middle East Downstairs, October 23, 2008
The SF-based Deerhoof performed at the Middle East a week ago Thursday with the amusingly repetitive precision of a puppet show or an assembly of wind-up toys.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 28, 2008

Carter’s cajones

Jimmy makes Dubya look like a wimp
The Republican Party is rife with classic wimps and bullies.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 27, 2008

Love and politics

Boleros for the Disenchanted ; November ; Martha Mitchell Calling
In Boleros for the Disenchanted , Puerto Rican–born José Rivera looks beyond the fairy dust and sexual spark to probe the full meaning of “till death do us part.”
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 21, 2008

Green around the gills

Politics and other mistakes
Spotting environmentalists used to be easy.
By AL DIAMON | October 02, 2008

Power talk

Going green
Two upcoming debates will likely address environmental topics and how they impact jobs, climate change, and our national priorities.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 02, 2008

Activists pitch green jobs as a win-win for Rhode Island

Clean Energy
With global warming looming and the US economy in a mess, environmentalists have a simple answer for promoting environmental protection and economic development.
By IAN DONNIS | September 25, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Jim McCue

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
Who is the only governor who can diaper her children in moose pelts?
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | September 17, 2008

When the red, red robin . . .

‘Language Of Color’ at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, ‘Speaker Project’ at MassArt, Cathy McLaurin at Montserrat
This exhibit explores the basic nature of color and its relationship to survival and pleasure in the world.
By RANDI HOPKINS | September 17, 2008

Ghost Town

A fill-in-the-blanks, DOA comedy
As a comedian, Ricky Gervais is like an endangered panda: he can perform only under specific circumstances.
By CHRIS WANGLER | September 16, 2008

Slideshow: Art and Empire at the MFA

Images from "Art and Empire" at the MFA
Images from "Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria" at the Museum of Fine Arts, September 21-January 4, 2009
By PHOENIX STAFF | September 18, 2008

Ties that bind

Dr. Lovemonkey
I’ve been seeing this guy for almost six months, but I’m starting to suspect that he just might be “Mr. Wrong.”
By DR. LOVEMONKEY | September 10, 2008

Yes, but why?

Bumpkin Island puzzler
Isolation was part of the challenge.
By IAN SANDS | September 03, 2008

Red Sparowes

Aphorisms | Sargent House
The brainchild of Isis guitarists Jeff Caxide and Bryant Clifford Meyer, this post-rock outfit is inspired by Mao Zedong’s attempted eradication of farm-pestering sparrows in the late 1950s.
By DAVID BOFFA | September 02, 2008

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