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NINA MACLAUGHLIN

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The motorized alternative

Hitting the trail on a Harley or a Honda
"Bump, ba-bump, ba-bump." Such is the sound a motorcycle makes when running over jackrabbits on the Nevada highway. Two-wheeler tours: Bicycle camping around Boston and beyond. By Nina MacLaughlin
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 25, 2006

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WBUR slashes arts coverage

Longtime editor and critic Bill Marx forced out
WBUR, the Boston-based, Boston University-owned NPR radio affiliate, will no longer carry arts reviews, the station’s long-time critic and editor Bill Marx said Thursday.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 19, 2006

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The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

Not the comic strip
Eric Orner, creator of the underground comic strip on which this film is based, has said that he’s always envisioned the strip as an animated sit-com. Watch the trailer for The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green  (QuickTime)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 19, 2006

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The pornography of pharmacology

Pagan Kennedy on drugs, memory, and the lure of nostalgia
“We’re so disconnected from our past selves,” says Kennedy. “Like what would the eight year-old you think of you now? That’s something that’s unsettling to me. I’d love to go back to be able to talk to the eight year-old.” Memories of you: Pagan Kennedy’s future nostalgia.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 27, 2006

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Memories of you

Pagan Kennedy’s future nostalgia
Pagan Kennedy, Somerville writer and ex-zinester, offers her own take on the urge to re-experience the past in her latest novel, Confessions of a Memory Eater . The pornography of pharmacology: Pagan Kennedy on drugs, memory, and the lure of nostalgia.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 27, 2006

Liquid masterpieces

An MFA exhibit inspires a host of beautiful cocktails
In honor of the exhibition, a number of bars and restaurants around Boston are offering drinks inspired by the art, the artists, and la Ville Lumière. Sqaures in Paris: What American painters didn't learn on their summer vacation. By Greg Cook.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 23, 2006

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Novel escapes

Traveling without a passport
A certain soul-crushing scene from The Fountainhead makes its way into my brain about this time every year.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 20, 2006

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Match points

A weekly web-lit journal pages its hustlers, dreamers, gamblers
For the anthology Year of the Thief , Thieves Jargon editor Matt DiGani selected "thirsty stories, tales whispered from traveling salesmen to wide-eyed youngsters in bowling alley parking lots."
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 15, 2006

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The King

Near-horror film about Elvis's lost years
When things go bad, they go Biblically bad. Watch the trailer for The King  (QuickTime)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 14, 2006

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The gang’s all hare

Severed hands, rabbit ears, and the cult of Chuck Palahniuk
He still draws lots of Tyler Durden wannabees, but last night Palahniuk delivered a box full of warm fuzzies to Coolidge Corner.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 08, 2006

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Everybody hurts

In short stories about messed-up teenage sex, alcholic parents, and other rebellions of the flesh, author Rachel Sherman rubs fiction readers the right way
"I don't usually find myself thinking anything's too fucked up," says Sherman. "I write what I want to."
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 31, 2006

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Suite Habana

Close look at one day feels like it lasts about that long, too
Fernando Pérez’s portrait of ten people in Havana pedals along slowly and entirely without dialogue.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 31, 2006

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Something to talk about

The New York Times ranks recent fiction
Is it possible to rate the “single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years?”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 07, 2006

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Bound for glory

Agni, Night Train, and Ploughshares in the age of internet
For the record, some of us still read the New York Times Magazine the old  fashioned way.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 18, 2006

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Unsaved

A.M. Homes falls into an LA sinkhole
What happened to A.M. Homes?
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 10, 2006

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Shakespeare Behind Bars

Manipulative, yet engrossing documentary
Hank Rogerson’s engrossing, manipulative documentary follows a group of inmates who put on a production of The Tempest inside a Kentucky prison.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 03, 2006

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The Best of Ottawa 2005

Dark collection of animated shorts
Animated shorts — at least the ones assembled for the MFA’s three-part animation program — tend toward the macabre.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  April 11, 2006

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The boards on a budget

Theater at movie ticket prices  
Going to theater or dance feels like an investment in an exclusive art form, high art for high incomes, and for those of us who count our nickels, off-limits entertainment.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 07, 2006

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Chills and thrills

Embrace the cold and head north this winter
Heading north in winter is counter-instinctual. The mere thought of it elicits a warning from the dark parts of your lizard brain. It’s cold. It’s icy. There’s no food.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 01, 2006

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Eight Below

True story of a team of sled dogs abandoned and forced to survive an Antarctic winter
Nary a speck of blood, and only two of the eight dogs die.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 15, 2006
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