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By BILL RODRIGUEZ | May 30, 2007

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ARTICLES BY BILL RODRIGUEZ

TRINITY’S DELICATELY BALANCED MERCHANT OF VENICE | February 15, 2012
The Merchant of Venice gives modern audiences a lot to think and talk about — including, we can forget, a surprising amount of comedy. But the main concern is it being such a head-shaking case study of the era's anti-Semitism.

A SUPERSIZED MARY POPPINS AT PPAC | February 15, 2012
There's no secret why the hit musical Mary Poppins has filled more than 9 million seats around the world over the last seven years.

REVIEW: CRESTA BAR & RISTORANTE | February 15, 2012
Cresta Bar & Ristorante, the new restaurant in Pawtucket, is really classing up the place.

A KNEE-SLAPPING LEND ME A TENOR AT PC | February 01, 2012
As hilarious as the race for the Republican presidential nomination is, even that is no competition for Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor.

REVIEW: SIENA | January 31, 2012
I can't imagine that anyone returning from a visit to Tuscany fails to wax rhapsodic about the cuisine, perhaps as soon as the customs inspection.

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ANARCHISTIC AND SELF-TRAINED, ARE STREET MEDICS THE FUTURE OF FIRST AID?
April 25, 2009: outside of the IMF/World Bank meeting in Washington, DC, police with batons are attacking a group of protesters.

THE OVERDUB TAMPERING COMMITTEE
Armed with an idea, a hastily written manifesto, a press release, and some software to disguise my computer's IP address, I was able to raise the question, "How do you know that what you're illegally downloading is the actual music it claims to be?" This is a story about how my pop-music infatuation led me to fabricating a web of lies I called the Overdub Tampering Committee.

OUT: PREPARING FOR ONE H.E.L.L. OF A WEEKEND IN CAMBRIDGE
Next weekend at the Democracy Center in Harvard Square, Vermont DIY label Get Stoked! Records and bike safety group Helping Everyone Live Long (H.E.L.L.) will co-host a weekend with a stacked line-up of Northeast punk, hardcore, indie rock, pop-punk, and emo bands.

MAY YOU AND PORTLANDIA BE VERY HAPPY TOGETHER!
Thanks to Portlandia I now know way too much about you guys and your grody inner lives. It's not the show itself — it doesn't have that power. It's your horrifying enthusiasm for the show that has granted me this mirror.

BOSTON BALLET'S 'SIMPLY SUBLIME'
Boston Ballet's "Simply Sublime" (at the Opera House through February 19) traverses 20th-century ballet's arc from Russian romance to a robust and confident neoclassicism.