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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Review: It Might Get Loud

Davis Guggenheim films his essay on the electric guitar
Some guitar teachers will tell you there’s a right way and a wrong way to play the guitar. But Davis Guggenheim’s rousing new documentary, It Might Get Loud, reminds us that that’s not true at all.
By: MIKE MILIARD  |  August 27, 2009
 

Arts

Big Fat Whale gets even fatter
Laugh Factory
Heart and claw
Joe Lansdale's Hap and Leonard act out
Interview: John Oliver
The British comic and Daily Show correspondent on Glenn Beck, gun nuts, and the National Health
Michael Mazur, 1935 - 2009
Painter, printmaker, teacher, art historian, curator, political/social/arts activist, Red Sox and Celtics fan
Play by Play: August 28, 2009
Plays from A to Z
Slideshow: Artwork from the late Michael Mazur
Michael Mazur's artwork at the Barbara Krakow Gallery
Visible man
Tracy Kidder gets into the picture

Food

La Fogata
A cozy Eastie spot for Colombian snacks and more
Tajine
A plea to kick up the heat

Life

Gluegun
Hoopleville
Inchworm
Big Fat Whale
Negotiation tactics
Idiot Box
Photos: Patriots cheerleaders at MSPCA Paw Wash
Patriot cheerleaders wash down some doggies at the MSPCA - Angell in Jamaica Plain
Widow's peak?
Failure

Movies

First look at James Cameron's Avatar
Titanic Gamble
Review: Captain Abu Raed
Funny and touching
Review: I Sell the Dead
Grave errors
Review: It Might Get Loud
Davis Guggenheim films his essay on the electric guitar
Review: Munyurangabo
Much like its central characters, it goes nowhere
Review: Play the Game
A slow, painful, embarrassing death of dignity.
Review: Taking Woodstock
Ang Lee sums up the counterculture in style

Music

A. A. Bondy | When the Devil's Loose
Fat Possum (2009)
Community: served
Solillaquists of Sound spread some Orlando magic
David Bazan | Curse Your Branches
Barsuk (2009)
Feels like the first time
One Night Band could get a little messy
Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall
Matador (2009)
Little Dragon | Machine Dreams
Peacefrog (2009)
Morgan Knockers | Loss of Reality
Second Rock (2009)
Owing muses
Brian King sings his life in Venus As a Boy

Music Continued

Photos: Chickenfoot at Bank of America Pavilion
Chickenfoot, live at the Bank of America Pavilion, August 24, 2009
Photos: DJ Kon's fundraiser
DJ Kon's fundraiser at Middlesex Lounge on August 24, 2009
Review: Monty Python's Flying Circus: 30 Musical Masterpieces from the Infamous Television Series
DeWolfe (2009)
Street rhythm
Florencia Gonzalez gets ugly . Plus, Dave Holland is sitting pretty.
The Big Hurt: Checking the Billboard Hot 100
Who charted?

News

After Ted
Kennedy’s death came amid renewed speculation about his succession, his family, and potential candidates for his job
Avoiding a border war
Rape in Brookline
Gay Activists Work for Ted
Activists note Kennedy's gay rights work
Going Mobil
Kennedy hires an idea-marketing man
Jimmy C. and Teddy K.
An incumbent's lessons and the politics of personality
Michael Ryan: 1951-2009
A celebration of the good old days by someone who knew him when
Photos: Sen.Ted Kennedy throughout the years
In memoriam
Public and private affairs
The case for making a campaign issue of Teddy's reputation for philandering
Shooting from the lip
Kennedy's gaffe on Iran manages to make a bad image worse
Ted Kennedy, 1932 - 2009
In memoriam of the long-standing senator
Ted Kennedy's passing
Also, will Afghanistan be Obama’s Vietnam?
Ted Kennedy's real record
A note on the 32-year-incumbent's accomplishments
Ted's turn
Clinton caves on crime bill, but Kennedy can still salvage it
The annunciations
East Coast, West Coast: It's the Ted & Jerry Show
The end of the affair?
Mitt Romney's right-wing-media problem. Plus, Michael Bloomberg's blind spot.
The Granite State Gang
New Hampshire transplants live free — or die trying
Tormenting Teddy
Republicans threaten Kennedy reign
Where was everybody on St. Patrick's Day?
Where's the (political) party?  
Which way the wind blows
Letters to the Boston editor, August 28, 2009

RecRoom

Crossword: ''King John''
Goodbye, Mr. Hughes
Interview: Paula Deen
Storming the Bean
Review: Shadow Complex
A dizzying descent down the rabbit hole
Smear tactics
Accused athletes unleash their attorneys
West coasting
Is Project Runway walking in circles?

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