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Thursday, August 20, 2009

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A mighty wind

New England plays catch-up in the green-energy race
This past Earth Day, President Barack Obama, speaking at an Iowa wind-turbine factory, delivered a gusty peroration. "The nation that leads the world in creating new energy sources will be the nation that leads the 21st-century global economy," he said. "America can be that nation. America must be that nation."

By: MIKE MILIARD | August 24, 2009

Arts

Hot Nazi beach reads
The new wave of Reich books: pop genres, good Germans

Play by play: August 21, 2009
Plays from A to Z

Simple gifts
Master architects: The Greenes at the MFA, Frank Lloyd Wright in Manchester

Special delivery
The subtle genius of Norm MacDonald

Food

Rowes Wharf Sea Grille
An acclaimed chef, a wonderful setting, and fabulous food

Stella's Pizza
A little slice of mid-century American heaven

Life

Crash for clunkers
With the economy breaking down and the world spinning out of control, America looks for hope . . . in demolition derbies?

I gotta take a leak
Failure

Omelet Grommet
Hoopleville

Photos: Demolition Derbies
Photos of demolition derbies and races around New England

Town hall smack down!
Big Fat Whale

Movies

Interview: Quentin Tarantino
The director talks Basterds

Review: Fifty Dead Men Walking
Fast-paced but uninvolving

Review: Inglourious Basterds
Payback for Hitler in Inglourious Basterds

Review: Not Quite Hollywood
A peek into Australia's seedy cinematic underbelly

Review: Post Grad
Kooky!

Review: Shorts
Pre-pubescent palaver from Robert Rodriguez

Review: Spread
God, is it uncomfortable

Review: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Idiotic, but not a total lemon

Review: The Time Traveler's Wife
One obnoxious romance

Review: Thirst
Park Chan-wook's latest gets a little messy

Music

Adrian Soiza and Dani Umpi | Dramatica
Los Años Luz (2009)

Crank it up
The return of the Marvels

Earth tones
The 2009 Boston Green Fest cleans up nice

Heat wave
Bat for Lashes, live at Paradise Rock Club, August 13, 2009

Music Continued

Homecoming kings
Audible Mainframe revisit the Bean (for a minute)

Jack Peñate | Everything Is New
XL (2009)

Midsummer madness
Mark Morris, Yo-Yo Ma, and the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood, Mozart in Boston, Meyerbeer at Bard

Photo: Dear Leader at Copperfield's
Dear Leader , live at Copperfield's Bar on August 19, 2009

Photos: Bat For Lashes at Paradise
Bat For Lashes, live at the Paradise on August 13, 2009

Photos: Company of Thieves at Copperfield's
Company of Thieves, live at Copperfield's Bar on August 19, 2009

Photos: Flying Machines at Copperfield's Bar
Flying Machines, live at Copperfield's Bar, August 19, 2009

Players only
A peek inside the world of Harmonix

Sally Shapiro | My Guilty Pleasure
Paper Bag (2009)

The Big Hurt: Broken bones and stripper poles
The Big Hurt: Music news in brief

Various Artists | Ze 30: Ze Records Story 1979-2009
Strut (2009)

Woody Guthrie | My Dusty Road
Rounder (2009)

Yo La Tengo | Popular Songs
Matador (2009)

News

A mighty wind
New England plays catch-up in the green-energy race

Defaming Twitter
Illogic and Cronyism Dept.

Flaherty's fix for the BRA
Letters to the Boston editor, August 21, 2009

Health-Care-Reform Town Hall All-Stars
Plumb and Dumber Dept.

Holding a finger to the wind
An energy expert forecasts a blustery day ahead for the region

Photos: Boston in the 70s: Part Six
Harvard Square from the Boston Phoenix's archives

Photos: Stetson Wind in Maine
Images of Stetson Wind

Rx for Barack
It's time for a dose of reality

The Mouth Behind the Eye
Maybe Norma Nathan is just a nice little Jewish mother from the North Shore. After all, she says she only assaults people who assault her.

Whole Foods health-care boycott gathers momentum
Human Rights Watch

Why wind power blows
Why we shouldn't overload our energy basket with wind eggs