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Kate Bornstein’s queer evolution
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Jet setter

Interview: Nerdist’s Chris Hardwick on Mad Men, Jenny McCarthy, and why geeks get it
These days, being a nerd is more likely to get you laid than beaten up.
Interview: Marc Maron rejoins his old Boston crowd
Marc Maron's WTF podcast is essential listening for comedy fans.
Interview: Michael Ian Black's death-defying comedy
Despite the title of the much lamented comedy series he shared with Michael Showalter, it turns out that Michael Ian Black does not have all that many issues after all. He's just deeply strange.

Doom sayer

Slideshow: Recent works by Alex Lukas at Steven Zevitas Gallery
Recent work by Alex Lukas are on display at Steven Zevitas Gallery from April 19 to June 2, 2012.
Alex Katz’s MFA retrospective is no abstraction
When Alex Katz launched his career as a realist painter in the 1950s, it was a daring move.
SLIDESHOW: ''Alex Katz Prints'' at the MFA
"Alex Katz Prints" is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts through July 29, 2012.

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.
Interview: Rory O’Connor digs social media
Rory O'Connor has been thinking about trust and the media for a long time.

Mellow musings

Boston Ballet struts Robbins, Lander, and Martins
It's almost enough to make you nostalgic for World War II.
Photos: Boston Ballet's Fancy Free
Boston Ballet performs "Fancy Free" at the Opera House on May 10-20, 2012.
Joffrey Ballet gets its due
New York has two great ballet companies, New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater. Any other ballet troupe that wants to put down roots there has to develop a personality that's distinct from those two.

Dust up

Xanadu from SpeakEasy; Avenue Q at Lyric Stage
Those who know their Coleridge will recall that: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately roller-dome decree."
Felder’s Maestro; Orphans’ Mary Poppers
Hershey Felder's Maestro: Leonard Bernstein (presented by ArtsEmerson on the Paramount Mainstage through May 20) begins with black-and-white footage of its subject lecturing vigorously on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
ASP tackles Troilus and Cressida
"All's false in love and war" might be a maxim for Troilus and Cressida.