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Obscene gas prices, stolen equipment, broken vans, no sleep -- so why do bands still go on tour? BY MICHAEL BRODEUR

News

Photos: March on the RNC

Protesters rallied in St. Paul

The good soldier
In Minnesota, Mitt keeps the faith
Clinton women for Palin? No way
Gender politics
Dawg days
The 2008 campaign is turning out to be our first-ever American Idol election

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Movies

A Girl Cut in Two

High-quality perversity

When men were men
Sam Peckinpah at the Harvard Film Archive
I Served the King of England
Ambitious but old-fashioned and sluggish
The Grocer's Son
Nothing much happens here

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Life

A Bathroom Tour of Boston

Stall-by-stall through 33 of the city's most distinctive restrooms

I'm sending you to a ufologist
Reality check
Black Republican Jam
Big Fat Whale
Call me Chuckie
Succe$$

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Music

Pretty & Nice: A Tour Diary

On the road from Oregon to Boston with New England's newest Sub Pop signees

Road worriers
Obscene gas prices, stolen equipment, broken vans, no sleep -- so why do bands still go on tour?
Part-time villain
Ill Bill gets nice
13 shots to the dome
The 10 hours and 29 minutes of LL Cool J’s career

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Food

The Hen House Wings ’n Waffles

A soul-food novelty finds a home in Boston

Gran Gusto
A well-kept secret . . . But not for long
T.J. Scallywaggle's
Tasty, scruffy, and cruelty-free
Privius Lounge
Sashimi for the dancing set

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Arts

Yes, but why?

Bumpkin Island puzzler

I am I said
‘Empire and Its Discontents’ and more at Tufts; ‘Re-View’ and visiting faculty at Harvard; GASP’s Fourth Anniversary
Return of the screw
The Woman in Black haunts Gloucester Stage
Body politic
Interview: Anna Deavere Smith contains multitudes

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Rec Room

They do like Mondays

ESPN defends its AstroTurf

Heightened anxiety
Sports blotter: "Attack of the seven-foot tall driver" edition
Nobody's perfect
To err is Too Human
Blood sucks
HBO does the ‘Southern Vampire’

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BLOGS

McCain's speech: quite a comedown
Dont Quote Me | September 04, 2008 at 11:31 PM

McCain's Speech, Initial Analysis
Talking Politics | September 04, 2008 at 11:04 PM

Love At First Sight: How The RNC Handled McCain's Infidelity
September 04, 2008 at 9:32 PM

Nerd Alert: Ghostbusters 3 is a go (the script at least)
phlog | September 04, 2008 at 7:41 PM

The Republican-Jewish case against Obama
Dont Quote Me | September 04, 2008 at 6:50 PM

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