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What's the scam?

Trying to bilk the Scientologists
Back on the morning of June 7, 1982, a man walked into the New York branch of the Middle East Bank on the 25th floor of a Madison Avenue office building and tried to deposit a $2 million check. The man, a native of the United Arab Emirates, left without completing the transaction.
By: JIM SCHUH  |  September 28, 2009
 

Arts

Black beauty
Fences, plus The Savannah Disputation and Mister Roberts
Interview: Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall on her new book, North Korea, and Bible-thumping conservatives
Love bug
Damián Ortega rides into the ICA
Play by Play: September 25, 2009
Plays from A to Z
Smaller, bigger, better
Boston Ballet’s fourth ‘Night of Stars’

Food

Rino's Place
Old-school, groaning-platter Italian-American meets authentic Italian in Eastie
The Stork Club
Jazz and soul team up to make sweet music

Life

Bookstores fight back with instant paperbacks
Just Add Author Dept.
Failed fall pilots
Big Fat Whale
It's too nice out to think
Failure
MassCan's 20th Freedom Rally relatively free from arrests
Peace Pipe Dept.
The Interview
Hoopleville

Movies

Interview: Robert Siegel
 On the shoulders of Giants fans
Review: Amreeka
Cherien Dabis's feature debut is winning
Review: Bright Star
Jane Campion does Keats — sort of
Review: Disgrace
Jacobs's adaptation of Coetzee's novel plenty disturbing
Review: Five Minutes of Heaven
Or, rather, 90 minutes of tension
Review: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Tucker Max serves up arrogance, misogyny, poo jokes
Review: Love Happens
Melodrama also happens
Review: Paris
What's the French word for Crash ?
True romance
Jane Campion directs the best movie ever made about John Keats.

Music

Coming home
Terri Lyne Carrington gives the BeanTown Jazz Fest the blues
Eno Moebius Roedelius | Cluster and Eno/After the Heat
Bureau B (2009)
Fool's Gold | Fool's Gold
 Iamsound (2009)
How it feels to be something (back) on
The return of Sunny Day Real Estate

Music Continued

Leon Kirchner, 1919–2009
In Memoriam
No new age
Earthsound is for real
On a roll
Hallelujah the Hills top themselves with Colonial Drones
Photos: The Walkmen
The Walkmen live at the Middle East downstairs, September 18, 2009
Photos: Thunderdome 3-D
Thunderdome at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, September 18, 2009
Photos: U2
U2, live at Gillette Stadium, September 20, 2009
Review: Bebel Gilberto | All In One
Verve (2009)
Review: Muse | The Resistance
Warner Bros. (2009)
Review: The Walkmen at Middle East
 The Walkmen, live at Middle East downstairs on September 18, 2009
Review: Tom Russell | Blood and Candle Smoke
Shout! Factory (2009)
Soul training
Suddenly, Mayer Hawthorne is running retro-pop
The Bigmouth strikes again
Kanye acts like himself; nation loses shit

News

Beating HPV
Letters to the Boston editor, September 25, 2009
Can Beacon Hill do better?
Gambling and education take center stage
Can Flaherty woo Yoon?
Don't call it a victory just yet; Michael Flaherty's work has only begun. Will Sam Yoon come to his aid?
What's the scam?
Trying to bilk the Scientologists
You're all guilty!
In his new book, Three Felonies A Day , Harvey Silverglate dissects the corrupt justice practiced by federal prosecutors

RecRoom

Catch a falling star
Willie Williams and Charles Rogers prove that "can't miss" prospects sometimes do
Crossword: ''Remember the date''
We'll make it three times as easy for you.
Holy landscape!
Ken Burns worships America's spiritual resource
Interview: Ken Burns
On his latest PBS documentary, The National Parks
Photos: The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Images from Ken Burns's latest documentary
Review: Darkest of Days
Time travel's last stand?
The Olympic (shell) games
There are billions of reasons why every debt-saddled American should hope that the US does not get the gold in 2016.

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