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Thursday, December 31, 2009

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52 ways to leave 2009

Get your New Year's Eve down to an Auld Lang science.
Your usual lackadaisical approach to New Year's Eve — just see what happens and go with the flow — is not going to cut it this year. Sure, the end of this decade may not have the same kind of new-millennium pressure riding on it as the last one, but the plunge into 2010 is a milestone nonetheless.

By: SHAULA CLARK | December 30, 2009

Arts

Booked solid
A hefty season of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry

Dane Cook is funny
In defense of the local comedian, who plays TD Garden on New Year's Eve

Fresh fruit and vegetables
A winter crop of art

From Mozart to milonga
All kindsa dance hits the stage

Interview: Raj Patel
Borrow his book

Looking back, going forward
A diverse display for 2010

Play by Play: January 1, 2010
Plays from A to Z

Food

Ginger Park Kitchen & Bar
The second time's the charm

Looking ahead to 2010
Some New Year's resolutions for budget-minded diners

Life

52 ways to leave 2009
Get your New Year's Eve down to an Auld Lang science.

Happy New Year 2010
Hoopleville

Kissing off 2009
The pressure to hook up on New Year's Eve is immense. Take it down a notch, and you may embrace 2010 with locked lips.

The power of ignorant thinking
Big Fat Whale

Movies

Lite at the end of the tunnel?
Fun and games in post-apocalyptic Hollywood

Music

Best in their field
An early 2010 harvest

Beyond Dilla and Dipset
Can hip-hop deliver in 2010?

John Harbison plus 10
Picking from a packed concert schedule

Spring fever
Ten shows you didn't know you'd be going to

The future is now
No teleportation, but lots of rad new albums

Winter warmers
Local rockers drop it like it's cold

News

In the drink
At holiday roadside sobriety checkpoints, drivers check in, but they don't always check out. Even ones who are sober.

RecRoom

Winter wonderland
Video games start the new year right