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Preliminary findings

Handicapping the 15-headed horse race that is Boston's at-large City Council election
Even knowledgeable City Hall insiders know they're better off scratching lotto tickets than wagering on Boston politics.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  August 12, 2009
 

Arts

Play by play: August 14, 2009
Plays from A to Z
Tapperina's tales
Jane Goldberg hoofs her way through
The Funn(k)y Drummer
What's the connection between comedy and percussion?
Twin peaks
The Comedy of Errors on Boston Common

Food

Dorado Tacos and Cemitas
Braving the early crowds for street-food flavors from Baja and Puebla
Pazzo
Bonkers? No, just crazy good.

Life

Birth control alternatives
Big Fat Whale
Melody makers
So you started a band — now what? Berklee and Topspin are here to help.
One Night in Boston
Fifteen photographers. Eight hours.  
Quoting from ''Perfect Woman'' by William Wordsworth
Failure
The conspiracy deepens
Idiot box
Tron
Hoopleville

Movies

Review: 24 City
A complex and lucid cinematic poem
Review: A Perfect Getaway
Well-crafted, entertaining pulp
Review: Bandslam
Where the Disney Channel and MTV2 intersect
Review: Cold Souls
Paul Giamatti can't heat up Cold Souls
Review: District 9
Apartheid gets the sci-fi treatment
Review: Evangelion 1.0: You Are Not Alone
Never makes it out of the cartoon stage
Review: GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
 If only they'd brought Mr. Potato Head into the mix.
Review: Lorna's Silence
A work of near-greatness
Review: Ponyo
Visually stunning, but leaves you shaking your head
Review: The Silence Before Bach
Perplexing

Music

Bacdafucup, indeed!
Remember Onyx? They’re still pissed.
Beginning? Or end?
Woodstock 40 years later
Covering the bottom end - and the bottom line
Newport Jazz comes back with a bang
From Sir, with love
Paul McCartney, live at Fenway, on August 5, 2009
Interview: Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx on acting, singing, comedy, and controversy

Music Continued

Newport Jazz Festival 2009
Jazzy!
Photos + Review: Pretenders, Cat Power at Pavilion
The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis | August 12, 2009 at Bank of America Pavilion
Photos: Blink-182, Fall Out Boy
Also with Panic! At The Disco, and Chester French, live at the Comcast Center, August 6, 2009
Photos: Mayhem Fest 2009
Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Killswitch Engage and more live at Comcast Center, August 4, 2009
Photos: Paul McCartney at Fenway
Paul McCartney, live at Fenway Park on August 5, 2009
Photos: Prefuse 73 at ICA
Prefuse 73, live at the Institute of Contemporary Art, August 7, 2009
Review: Amanda Blank | I Love You
Downtown (2009)
Review: Buffy Sainte-Marie | Running for the Drum
Appleseed (2009)
Review: Choo Choo La Rouge | Black Clouds
Kiam (2009)
Review: Fresh Daily | The Gorgeous Killer in Crimes of Passion
High Water Music (2009)
Review: Mayhem Fest 2009
Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Killswitch Engage, et al | August 4, 2009 at Comcast Center, Mansfield
Review: Robert Pollard | Elephant Jokes
Guided By Voices Inc. (2009)
Review: Talbot Tagora | Lessons in the Woods or a City
Hardly Art (2009)
The best is noise
Howard Stelzer's tale of the tape
The Big Hurt: Woo ware
This one goes out to all the ladies

News

Bad times for the good earth
How are we going to keep them down on the farm?
Brave New Advertorial
When is a news story not a news story? When it becomes a Starbucks ad.
Gates-Gate lives on
 Letters to the Boston editor, August 13, 2009
How much rock would a Woodstock stock if
Three-day festival of peace and music
Mr. Respectable
What's behind Rupert Murdoch's paid-content push? Plus, the ambitions of BoMag's new editor.
Patrick's latest train wreck
Plus, an Israeli diplomat does the right thing
Preliminary findings
Handicapping the 15-headed horse race that is Boston's at-large City Council election
Woodstock rock schlock
Fun Fair of peace, pot, pop, & pooped people
Yoon or Flaherty
Who will win the chance to challenge Menino?

RecRoom

Crossword: ''No ham for me, thanks''
Don't be a pig about it
Going streaking
Snapping out of the annual NFL training-camp lull. Plus, Plaxico Burress gets his.
Our Don Drapers, Ourselves
The Mad Men mystique
Review: 'Splosion Man
Blowing up Xbox Live Arcade

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