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Queering the party with the DJs of Nu Life
Beyond Gay Night BY EUGENIA WILLIAMSON

Crucify the bastards

From the penitentiary to the presidential race, it’s our annual Memorial Day roast of Massachusetts pols
Welcome to the fourth annual Boston Phoenix Memorial Day Roast of Massachusetts politicians! I love looking around the room every year, seeing so many familiar faces of elected officials.
Gone forever
Although I could spend this opportunity ranting and raving about the sale of WFNX to Clear Channel, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank WFNX .
PHOTOS: NATO demonstrations in Chicago
#NoNATO actions in the Windy City

Socialist security

Review: Where Do We Go Now?
Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's whimsical film about internecine slaughter has a tone problem from the very start: a group of widows engage in a goofy line dance while the voiceover narrator bewails the death toll of religious warfare.
Review: I Wish
Two elementary school brothers living in southern Japan are forced to live in different cities due to the estrangement of their parents.
Review: Polisse
The third feature by French actress and filmmaker Maïwenn, about the inner-workings of Paris's Child Protection Unit (CPU), is certainly kinetic, though also mannered and hyperbolic.

QUILTBAG folks tell their stories of newfound visibility, rethinking "gay nights," political music, and more

Trans activist Gunner Scott says, despite increased visibility, it’s still dangerous to be transgender in America
I don't know why I'm transgender. I just am.
Female-to-male alongside pop culture
About this time a year ago, I watched Chaz Bono on Late Night with David Letterman try to explain to America what it meant to be transgender. Letterman's hammy reaction made me clammy with fear. Oh god, I thought, terrified.
I'm going to quit my job and start a cult
Do you have any guns?

Radio Silence

Out: An electronic séance with Hooray for Earth and Zambri at Great Scott
We in Boston enjoy reminding others that Hooray for Earth originally formed here, so we can still call them a Boston band.
Blurring gender lines with Speedy Ortiz
During a recent Allston basement show performance with her loud, grungy pop band Speedy Ortiz, Sarah Dupuis found herself surprised.
Homegrown trans rocker Evan Greer keeps her music political
Last month, when Tommy Gabel of Against Me! announced via Rolling Stone that she's transgender (and will now go by Laura Jane Grace), I immediately wondered what Evan Greer might be thinking.

Fiery Chinese served comfortably numb

Review: Vapiano
In a year of bad restaurant ideas done surprisingly well, Vapiano is a mediocre idea done disastrously.
Review: Thelonious Monkfish
The name bit flipped all the cats and kitties and the squares and the cubes, but it ends up jive; don't jibe with the vibe.
On the Cheap: Dwelltime Coffeebar & Bakeshop
Jerry Seinfeld once said that our only true goal in life is to find a place to sit. If you really think nice and hard about it, you'll find that your day may indeed just be moments spent in chairs, or couches, or beds, strung together by your attempts to get to them.

Baseball, drugs, and life on the edge

Interview: Oil Can Boyd on playing the game
This week, I had an hour long chat with Oil Can Boyd.
Kate Bornstein’s queer evolution
Feisty transgender icon Kate Bornstein's newest book, A Queer and Pleasant Danger (Beacon Press), is best summed up by its subtitle: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today.
Mark Morris's Socrates, The Muir, and Festival Dance
Erik Satie called his vocal work Socrate a "symphonic drama," though it's anything but dramatic in a theatrical sense — or symphonic, either.

It's good for you.

Review: Trials Evolution
Trials Evolution is a game about launching dirt bikes off sweet jumps, gunning for record-breaking times, and occasionally doing backflips. It's like a modern-day Excitebike .
Crossword: ''Triple Billing''
What if these bands played together?
Crossword: Stretch Those Quads!
A hardcore freestyle workout.