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Slideshow: The Slutcracker

A burlesque take on the Nutcracker

By PHOENIX STAFF | December 12, 2008

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A rehearsal for TheSlutcracker, Babes in Boinkland dancers' ribald burlesque take on The Nutcracker ballet,
to be performed on December 12, 13, and 14 at the Somerville Theatre.
Read the story on how these babes found their way to Boinkland.

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Griot act
Some albums are extraordinary because they capture their time. Others are great because they transcend it.
Photos: Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Touré live at Somerville Theatre
Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Touré live at Somerville Theatre, June 18, 2009
Photos: St. Vincent at Somerville Theatre
Annie Clark and co. live on May 19, 2009
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Griot act
Some albums are extraordinary because they capture their time. Others are great because they transcend it.
Photos: Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Touré live at Somerville Theatre
Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Touré live at Somerville Theatre, June 18, 2009
Photos: St. Vincent at Somerville Theatre
Annie Clark and co. live on May 19, 2009
St. Vincent's Actor gets a run-through
There were not one but two clarinets on stage at the Somerville Theatre on Tuesday night, and that gives you some idea of how intricate Annie Clark's chamber-pop compositions can be.
Photos: Os Mutantes at Somerville Theatre
Photos of Os Mutantes, on tour for their new album Haih or Amortecedor , at the Somerville Theatre
Just serious enough
Over the years, I’ve seen many an act try and fail to get folks up out of their seats at the Somerville. On Sunday night, all Os Mutantes had to do was play the opening notes of Jorge Ben’s “A Minha Menina” and we all spilled into the aisles like a flash flood.
Mixed emotions
When at the end of the title track of her band's new My Maudlin Career (4AD) Camera Obscura vocalist/songwriter Tracyanne Campbell coos "I don't want to be sad again" over a bed of ethereally jaunty chamber pop, you'd be wise to take that with a grain of salt.
Tropicália storm
When Sérgio Dias takes to the Somerville Theatre stage this Sunday with the current incarnation of Os Mutantes, it's a safe bet he'll be beaming with gratitude. "I'm riding the same wave," he says of his band's legendary Brazilian albums, "but this time I have my eyes open."
Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca
You're going to be hearing a lot more about this album than you might actually hear from it. Why? Because it's far simpler to succumb to a lulling, repetitive chorus of praise than it is to surrender to the pull of Dave Longstreth's often uncertain seas.
Suite relief
For Longstreth, the pressure's been ratcheted up following the online leak a couple of months ago of Dirty Projectors' fifth LP, Bitte Orca (Domino) which is finally, officially out this week.
Lovely, dark, and deep
I've never met a baritone who particularly dug another baritone. If anything, a wariness simmers between them.
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