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Charlie Sheen's 24/7 reality show

Good times, Charlie!
In about a month, Sheen has completed the Monkees' career trajectory, from twitchy industry puppet to radiant drug zealot to self-indulgent bore. Two weeks ago, after tolerating years of open rebellion, creator/producer Chuck Lorre fired Sheen from Two and a Half Men.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 09, 2011

Téa Obreht 'remembers' the old country

Foreign affairs
For Obreht to set her first novel in a country she hasn’t lived in since the age of 12 shows considerable ambition.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 09, 2011

Carrie Brownstein waves the Wild Flag

Clean slate
Last December, the Portland Mercury announced that Wild Flag would play the Bunk Bar. Carrie Brownstein -- Wild Flag singer and guitarist, Sleater-Kinney alum, and star of the IFC sit-com Portlandia -- saw the write-up online.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 02, 2011

Betsaida Gutiérrez mourns the passing of the Hi-Lo.

The shadow of Whole Foods falls upon JP

There Goes the Neighborhood
"I can no longer see my friends when I go to the supermarket. . . . Jamaica Plain is for us, not for the rich people."

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 02, 2011

Lamb Jam Thank You Ma'am

Our reporter eats meat. A lot of meat.
On February 20, eight women gathered in an anodyne conference room in the Charles Hotel to eat and pass judgment on 17 courses of lamb. I was one of them.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 07, 2011

How the Boston rock scene grew up, got real jobs, and became — Freemasons?

The all-seeing eye of rock and roll
The Masons of Amicable Lodge have tattoos curling out from under their button-down shirts. They wear giant rings and waist aprons that look like oversize satin envelopes. They wear ties and medals and amulets. They carry staffs. Each month, they gather to practice secret rituals in Porter Square.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 25, 2011

I did Sookie Stackhouse

A book snob reveals her whirlwind affair with America's favorite telepathic waitress
What is it about reading and falling in love that invites cliché. When I met Sookie Stackhouse, the heroine of Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, I didn't think much of her. She was right under my nose, but I was blind. But when I fell, oh, did I fall. I daresay Sookie had her way with me. She transformed a self-conscious reader of big, important novels into a dribbling paranormal romance hound. I'm still kind of bitter about it.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | February 15, 2011

Fake gays not protesting IFC-distributed rape film

Epic fail dept.
Last week, I got an e-mail with a real honker of a subject line: "Most Controversial Film — More Dangerous than Wikileaks?"

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | February 02, 2011

The man in the yellow fur coat

As the Boston Athenaeum stages an Edward Gorey retrospective, his biographer reflects on the artist's lasting legacy
The cultural critic Mark Dery worked as a clerk for Manhattan's Gotham Book Mart in the early '80s. One afternoon, he was taken by surprise.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | February 05, 2011

Getting nostalgic with the Dismemberment Plan

Has their time come?
One summer night, the Jewish Indie Rock King of Chicago announced he was off to see some band called the Dismemberment Plan.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 27, 2011

I was a teenage Sandinista

Deb Olin Unferth left college in the '80s to become a Communist Freedom Fighter. It didn't quite work out that way.
As a freshman philosophy major at the University of Colorado, Deb Olin Unferth fell in love with a junior named George. A pious Evangelical, George felt it was his duty to help his Communist brethren in Central America fight against their capitalist oppressors. So he did, and Unferth went with him.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 31, 2011

Highbrow smackdown: Writers prepare for Literary Death Match

Four writers enter, one writer leaves
Four writers participate in a Death Match. Though only one will emerge victorious, each will be heard.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 24, 2011

Interview: Christian Lander

Beyond the pale
With his first book, Stuff White People Like , and his blog of the same name, Christian Lander poked savage fun at the urban bourgeoisie. He hit a nerve and the bestseller list; it all culminated in an appearance on Conan .

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 18, 2011

HBO's Big Love shows us the inequalities in every marriage, writ large

Big Patriarchy
For four seasons and five years, HBO's Big Love has dominated the edgy-soap-opera niche once inhabited by Six Feet Under .

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 12, 2011

Review: And Everything Is Going Fine

Want to know more about Spaulding Gray? Don't start here.
Want to know more about Spaulding Gray? Don't start here.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 11, 2011

Phantom Gourmet kisses ass, defends Upper Crust

Bitter aftertaste
The day after Christmas, those who follow the Phantom Gourmet's Facebook feed were treated to a provocative status update.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 06, 2011

13 must-attend readings of winter 2011

Writers fight the good fight at local book events
Winter is dreadful. Books are the opposite. We offer you the following author events as antidotes to sedentary overeating and bad television.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | January 04, 2011

2010: The year in Nic Cage

365 days of pure trumpet-sharing, fishseks-pondering, velvet-ceilinged madness
Around two minutes into Carter Burwell's arrangement of the banjo standard "Way Out There" (known to most of us as the theme from Raising Arizona ), the melody, heretofore whistled and yodeled over wild and rambling little arpeggios, gives way to some familiar chords

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | December 22, 2010

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