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Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Arts

Finding out what makes the Meat Puppets tick with a new oral history
They Ain't Heavy, They're the Kirkwood Brothers
Jasper Johns cools it
Secret sharer
Jonathan Lethem braves Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
Fear factor
SLIDESHOW: ''Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print''
May 22 2012 – Aug 18 2012 | Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Food

Equal Exchange finds a new way to sell its Joe on the go
Caffeine Kickstand
On the Cheap: China King
The spectacular return of a brilliant Northern Chinese specialist to Chinatown
Review: Moksa
Asian-fusion takes on tapas

Life

Bibs are back!
Hoopleville
Future Fatty Foods
Big Fat Whale
True Stories from History
Failure

Movies

An interview with director Eric Toledano
Talking Intouchables
Review: Elena
Domestic servitude
Review: Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot document Yoni's life story
Review: For Greater Glory
Never-ending war
Review: The Intouchables
Traveling well
Review: The Whole World Waiting
Fifteen immigrant and refugee teenagers tell their stories
Review: Chernobyl Diaries
Tried and true formula
Review: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson paints his masterpiece
Winners and losers at Cannes 2012
Love Conquers All

Music

BMOP and Mark Morris
Classical classics
King Tuff | King Tuff
Sub Pop
Lemonade | Diver
True Panther Sounds (2012)
Mary Halvorson's enchanted wood; Plus, Ben Powell's new CD
Wild things

Music Continued

Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Americana
Reprise (2012)
Out: Dancing among DJs at Petrol's third-anniversary party at Middlesex
Mixed and matched
Pomegranates | Heaven
Modern Outsider  
Scott Lucas & The Married Men | Blood Half Moon
The End Records (2012)
Seer Group players share more than music
Organ beats
The Big Hurt: An unknown legend comes in from the cold
Return of a band namer
The Cult survives rock's highs and lows
Sturdy temple
The Hives | Lex Hives
Disques Hives (2012)
The preservation of Carolina Chocolate Drops
Living history
They ain't heavy, they're the Kirkwood Brothers
Finding out what makes the Meat Puppets tick with a new oral history

News

Back to the Future + It's in the Cards (NSFW)
Letters to the Boston Phoenix editors, June 1, 2012
Can Netroots make a difference in November – and beyond?
Rallying the troops
Celestial Update
This brief transit
Don't taze us, we're with the media
As the line between press and protester blurs, more and more reporters are getting cuffed--and worse--as they cover the counterculture
Game Change?
 A coalition of net natives crossed political lines to decapitate SOPA and PIPA. Is this the beginning of a new American politics?
Trump for Vice-President
A Modest Proposal
Why the upcoming AIDS Walk is more important than ever
Walk for Life
Your guide to Netroots Nation 2012
Memes and madness

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Metal on Metal''
What's that sound?
Review: Diablo 3
Always on

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