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Thursday, December 03, 2009

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A weed grows in Boston

What's a suburban soccer mom who was once fervently anti-drug doing running a business growing and selling pot?
Even though it's a crisp November day, the flower boxes of Mary Jones's neat little bungalow are overflowing with brightly colored blooms.
By: VALERIE VANDE PANNE  |  December 04, 2009
 

Arts

GI blues
A former Army medic tells his story
Is it magic yet?
Boston Ballet's Nutcracker
No country for old men
Shipwrecked! at the Lyric; Heroes in Lowell
Play by Play: December 4, 2009
Plays from A to Z
Pleasure principles
In happiness begins responsibility

Food

Fiorella's
A solid Italian-American trattoria with dynamite pizza
Pasha Turkish & Mediterranean Cuisine
A fantastically long list of Turkish delights

Life

25-cent book bin
Big Fat Whale
A weed grows in Boston
What's a suburban soccer mom who was once fervently anti-drug doing running a business growing and selling pot?
The Natalie Portman story
Failure
Top Uses for the Local Daily
Hoopleville

Movies

Review: Defamation
Documentary takes on anti-Semitism
Review: Julia
Tilda Swinton goes crusty
Review: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951 melodrama fails to convince
Review: Strongman
It’s hard to be a champion all day
Review: The House of the Devil
The '80s revival hits the horror genre
Review: The Strip
Springs from the format of The Office like a blurred reproduction from a bad copy machine.
Review: Up In the Air
Flight pattern: Reitman takes a familiar turn
Review: Z (1969)
Z lives on 40 years later

Music

Fashawn | Boy Meets World
One (2009)
Getting the story
Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux sing jazz's many strains
Hacking pact
With big record companies willingly bucking technology, musicians and software types gathered in Cambridge to revolutionize the industry.
Julianna Barwick | Florine
Emusic (2009)

Music Continued

KZA | Dig and Edit
Endless Flight (2009)
Main man of Mattapan
From the curb to the club with Singapore Kane
Miss Tess | Darling, Oh Darling
Self-released (2009)
Open spaces
The BSO's Brahms, Ben Zander's Wagner, Collage New Music, and the BEMF's Handel
Photos: Melt Banana live at the Middle East
Melt Banana live at the Middle East downstairs, November 24, 2009
Photos: Pixies at the Wang Theatre
The Pixies, live at the Wang Theatre, November 27, 2009
Review: Melt-Banana at Middle East Downstairs
Melt-Banana, live at Middle East Downstairs, November 24, 2009
Rickie Lee Jones | Balm in Gilead
Fantasy (2009)
Rihanna | Rated R
Def Jam (2009)
The Big Hurt: Season's beatings
The Big Hurt holiday shopper
Three on the floor
Friendly Fires find life after hardcore
Treat of Versailles
Phoenix please themselves — and you

News

Capuano for Senate
Plus, Obama's Afghanistan blunder
Coakley cashes in at the bar
Lawyering Up
Goal rush!
How long can Boston's frenetic sports-media explosion last?
Over the coals
Letters to the Boston editor, December 4, 2009
Phoenix critic wins grant
Cook gets to eat
Questioning the Legality of Straight Marriage
One for the Annuls Dept.
Stones arrive
Jagger as a hero-rapist

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Bank job''
You're getting colder
Review: Left 4 Dead 2
Zombie nation: Valve at the top of its craft
Rube awakening
A former Jail Blazer returns to action. Plus, hugging it out at Portland State.

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