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Thursday, October 08, 2009

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Latter day taint

How Glenn Beck is driven by Mormonism — and why his fellow faithful (including Mitt Romney) should be worried
Fifteen years ago, Glenn Beck was a small-market DJ with a drinking problem, no friends, and bleak professional prospects. Today, he’s a Fox News superstar averaging 2.4 million viewers, an inexorably successful author, and the leader of a popular movement that condemns government in general and President Barack Obama in particular.

By: ADAM REILLY | October 10, 2009

Arts

Carnal knowledge
Nick Cave’s bad Bunny

Interview: David Cross
David Cross is not cross

No place like home
Boston Ballet's Giselle fits right in

Photos: The Brilliant Line at RISD's Museum of Art
The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480- 1650, on display until January 3, 2010

Play by play: October 9, 2009
Theater listings

The games people play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Caretaker; Little Black Dress

Weather reports
Landscape nostalgia, plus climate, the nature of community, and drawing show #21

Food

Boston Kebab House
An oasis of fresh Turkish and American food in the Financial District desert

Con Sol
Shining light on a secret Iberian bargain

Life

ACORN restructures
Idiot box

Crop Circles
Hoopleville

How did I get so fat?
Failure

Less than zero
Artist Russell Freeland went from Boston to Austin — and gave up absolutely everything in the process

Lie of the land
Lying liars, and the end of accountability

Modern medical marvels
Big Fat Whale

Movies

Interview: Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson
Picking the brains of Zombieland 's stars

Review: A Serious Man
The Coens find no country for A Serious Man

Review: Earth Days
Did you know Nixon once signed progressive eco-legislation?

Music

A Place To Bury Strangers | Exploding Head
Mute (2009)

Air | Love 2
Warner Bros. (2009)

Anything and everything
StreightAngular just want to know what's now

Darrell Nulisch | Just For You
Severn (2009)

Freudian trip
Esoteric drops reality rap on Saving Seamus Ryan

Music Continued

Just serious enough
Os Mutantes, live at the Somerville Theatre, October 4, 2009

Mr. Magic, R.I.P.
Rest in Beats

Old school, new school
Amanda Carr and Gretchen Parlato do it their way

Out, loud
Might the world finally be ready for Gossip?

Photos: Dinosaur Jr. at the Middle East downstairs
Dinosaur Jr., live at the Middle East downstairs, October 2, 2009

Photos: KISS at TD Garden
KISS, live at TD Garden, October 5, 2009

Photos: Os Mutantes at Somerville Theatre
Os Mutantes, live at Somerville Theatre on October 4. 2009

Photos: Ra Ra Riot at Paradise Rock Club
Ra Ra Riot, live at the Paradise Rock Club, October 3, 2009

Photos: White Lies at WFNX's Disorientation 2009
White Lies, live at Lansdowne Pub, October 8, 2009

The Big Hurt: Think of England
‘Who Charted?’: The UK edition

The Black Heart Procession | Six
Temporary Residence (2009)

The Flaming Lips | Embryonic
Warner Bros. (2009)

The Raveonettes | In and Out of Control
Vice (2009)

News

Art dodgers
Letters to the Boston editor, October 9, 2009

Boston public-school apartheid?
Think busing was a problem in this town? Some are labeling charter schools as Boston's newest educational battleground

Burn, baby, burn
The Olympics, zipper-gate, stimulus money, and why Coakley must investigate City Hall

Comic writers go nuclear — they think Amazon's the bomb
Gone Fission Dept.

Father Feeney
A Heretic Courted By The Church

Latter day taint
How Glenn Beck is driven by Mormonism — and why his fellow faithful (including Mitt Romney) should be worried

MFA neglects to award prize for neglected female artists
Missing Maud Dept.