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Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Hardboiled hub

The city’s gritty, criminal underbelly has redefined the dark, artistic vision known as Boston noir
When I was growing up in Roslindale a few decades back — among tribes of ignorant, second-generation immigrant kids whose favorite words began with “f” and “n” and who liked to torture small animals and beat up small children before they moved on to their future vocations as petty criminals, dead dope users, or real-estate agents.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 21, 2009

Arts

Apocalypse wow
Margaret Atwood unleashes the End Times

Awake! Awake!
Sleep No More brings Macbeth to Brookline

Casting spells
Tomb 10A at the MFA; ACT UP at Harvard

Only connect
The Lyric answers the call of Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Photos: ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis 1987–1993 at the Carpenter Center

Photos: The Secrets of Tomb 10A at MFA
The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC on exhibit until May 16, 2010

Play by play: October 23, 2009
Boston theater listings, October 23, 2009

Sarah and the shipmates
Vowell on the Puritans and the founding of Rhode Island

Sunday school
Ronald K. Brown at the ICA

Food

Bubor Cha Cha
Some call it inauthentic, but this is Malaysian fusion done well

Ducali Pizzeria and Bar
Good Italian-American pies and cheap drafts: any questions?

Life

About that gender-neutral Bible . . .
Idiot box

Bath time
Failure

Halloween tips and tricks
Big Fat Whale

Monkey Business
Boston's an academic city, even for capuchins who attend Brighton's Monkey College, where they're trained to be lifesavers for the disabled

Photos: Rock and Shock 2009
At the DCU Center, Worcester on October 16th till the 18th

Power of attorney
Reality check

United Nations Day
Hoopleville

Movies

Hardboiled hub
The city’s gritty, criminal underbelly has redefined the dark, artistic vision known as Boston noir

Interview: Lars von Trier of Antichrist
The director on the redeeming qualities of Antichrist

Review: Amelia
Plane bad

Review: Antichrist
Lars von Trier’s screams from a marriage

Review: Astro Boy
Partisan politics rain down like meatballs

Review: Good Hair
Chris Rock will make your head itch to know more

Review: Motherhood
Fails to carry to term

Movies Continued

Review: The Stepfather
Remake fails to get any blood flowing

Review: The Yes Men Fix The World
Anti-capitalism hoaxes occasionally misfire

Music

Brendan Hogan | Long Night Coming
Self-released (2009)

Brute forces
Mastodon, High on Fire, and Dethklok lead metal’s latest charge

Erin McKeown | Hundreds of Lions
Righteous Babe (2009)

Flying Machines | Flying Machines
Meteor (2009)

Interview: Elly Jackson of La Roux
Red hot

Jaysaun and DJ Revolution | Game of Breath
Brain on Drugz (2009)

Photos: Paramore, Paper Route at House of Blues
Paramore and Paper Route, live at the House of Blues, October 19, 2009

Rhythm queens
The educational ecstasy of Zili Misik

Slow hand
Jeremy Udden’s rocky jazz path

Spiral Stairs | The Real Feel
Matador (2009)

The Big Hurt: Release yo’ delf
The week in horrendous press releases

White Denim | Fits
Downtown (2009)

News

Bozzio's a somewhat missing person on the west coast
Cat Crazy Dept.

For city council
Boston At-Large: Connolly, Murphy, Pressley, Arroyo

Free speech again quashed at Harvard
RSVPeeved Dept.

Holding his punches
The pundits think a desperate Michael Flaherty needs to throw haymakers at the mayor, but he insists steady pressure will win the fight

Knight of night life
Taking on Boston’s biggest bully

The battle for our city schools
Boston Phoenix letters, October 23, 2009

The Brother Thomas Fellows
Good news for a change

The Rising Market of Comic Art
At the New York Comic Art Convention