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Holy terror?

Cutting through the muddled thinking about Nidal Malik Hasan's faith and its role in the Fort Hood shootings
On the afternoon of November 5, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan walked into a building at Fort Hood, the sprawling military base in central Texas; sat briefly in solitary silence; and then opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol, shooting roughly a hundred rounds and killing 12 soldiers and one civilian.
By: ADAM REILLY  |  November 16, 2009
 

Arts

Magic tricks
Alice Munro has them, Philip Roth doesn’t
Narrative truth
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s war story at the ICA
Play by Play: November 13, 2009
Plays from A to Z

Food

ArtBar
A pleasantly unpredictable treat sneaks out of the shadows
Elite Restaurant
Eggs, coffee, and salty conversation

Life

In praise of Massachusetts
Failure
Letter Rip
The Phoenix discovers secret messages in Hollywood-connected political correspondence
Meet the Marlboro Man
Hoopleville
Oscar-baitin'!
Big Fat Whale
Slideshow: Highlights from Obama's first year
A look back at our coverage on Obama during his first year on the job
The South's opt-out program
Idiot Box
They can handle the truth
Rugged Writing Dept.

Movies

Interview: Lone Scherfig
An Educated Lady
Review: (Untitled)
Jonathan Parker's a little too comfortably bourgeois
Review: 2012
Doom and doomer: the bullshit hits the fans
Review: Black Dynamite
A rush of ’70s nostalgia you never knew you had
Review: Pirate Radio
Richard Curtis’s boat rocks
Review: Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon
Spellbound with spreadsheets, but without character development
Review: The Box
David Kelly boxes himself in
Review: The Maid
Sebastián Silva’s textured routines
Review: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
What’s it like being the young daughters of this John Brown–like presence?
Review: Within the Whirlwind
Emily Watson faces her accusers

Music

AC-DC | Backtracks
Columbia (2009)
Allah people in the house
Blak Madeen stay true on Sacred Defense
Almost
BLO's Carmen, the BSO's Beethoven, Emmanuel Music's Haydn and Schoenberg
Devendra Banhart | What Will We Be
Warner/Reprise (2009)
Dirty old men
The Jesus Lizard return to rewreck rock
Echo and the Bunnymen | The Fountain
Ocean Rain (2009)
Edan | Echo Party
Five Day Weekend (2009)
Faux fi
Tune-Yards don't need to make a big production out of it
Jackson 5 | I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters
Motown/Universal (2009)
Sweet sorrow
A farewell to Pants Yell!
The Big Hurt: Another Brown bagged
Plus Stockman sickened, Sublime subpoena'd,
The Relatives | Don't Let Me Fall
Heavy Light (2009)

News

Coakley takes a stand
Plus, free speech at UMass
Courthouse bomber to speak about social change
Censorship averted
Dudley no longer square
House Party
Has Obama peaked? No, he hasn't
Obama’s days of greatest power and popularity lie before him. But be warned: he might not do what you want with it.
Has Obama peaked? Yes, he has
Yes, he made history. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there.
Holy terror?
Cutting through the muddled thinking about Nidal Malik Hasan's faith and its role in the Fort Hood shootings
Sound words
Letters to the Boston editor, November 13, 2009

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Home slice''
Rolling in the dough.
Golden goofballs
Minnesota football teams produce twin dummies
Interview: Leonard Nimoy
Hot Vulcan
Review: DJ Hero
Hit the decks in DJ Hero

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