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Fail better

Jóhann Jóhannsson explores the ruins of dreams
It's another gross, rainy afternoon in Boston, and I'm on the phone to Copenhagen with Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson talking about failure and despair. Great. Maybe I just had weird assumptions about Icelanders, but I expected we'd proceed on jollier terms.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  June 23, 2009

Surviving the econopocalypse

Want to keep your head above water in post-meltdown America? Here's some ways to get your own bailout bucks — without a W2.
If you're like the more than nine percent of Americans currently unemployed, your "Yes We Can!" has lately lost some of its gusto. You've hit up everyone you know for work, including your mom, your ex, and your ex's ex.
By LISSA HARRIS  |  June 11, 2009
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Survive the econopocalypse

Want to keep your head above water in post-meltdown America? Here's some ways to get your own bailout bucks — without a W2.
If you're like the more than nine percent of Americans currently unemployed, your "Yes We Can!" has lately lost some of its gusto. You've hit up everyone you know for work, including your mom, your ex, and your ex's ex.
By LISSA HARRIS  |  June 11, 2009
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Men plus money equals mess

The financial crisis is a man-made problem. And it might not have occurred if we had listened to women.
Since Iceland is something of the epicenter of the global financial crisis — its government being the first to essentially go belly up — it's probably not surprising that the Icelanders have come up with the most novel and interesting theory as to what caused the meltdown. And they may be right.
By STEVEN STARK  |  May 14, 2009
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Our digital landscape

The 2009 Boston Cyberarts Fest
The installation Children of Arcadia convinced me that the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival isn’t going to suck.
By GREG COOK  |  April 28, 2009
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Super Sonik

Graffitist Caleb Neelon is a street survivor
When Cambridge native Caleb Neelon talks about how he got hooked on graffiti, he often recounts a trip he took to Germany with his mom in 1990.  
By GREG COOK  |  February 18, 2009
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Ice ice baby

Polar landscapes at the Peabody Essex, plus monsters at the Museum of Science
In July 1860, Captain Isaac Israel Hayes's schooner, the United States, left Boston and sailed to the Arctic.
By GREG COOK  |  January 06, 2009
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Tweak-folk

Reimagined folk songs by Sam Amidon
Released this summer, Nico Muhly's Mothertongue (Bedroom Community) — the latest album by the ambitious contemporary classical music composer, a protégé of Philip Glass — offers listeners a bombastic example of the ongoing collaboration between the composer and Vermont-based folk singer Sam Amidon.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  December 03, 2008
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Interview: Lance Hammer

Delta force
Some filmmakers seek to penetrate the mystery of human existence through cinema.  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008
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Around the block

Dr. Lovemonkey
I am a 26-year-old woman and got married four months ago.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY  |  July 30, 2008
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Happy days

The Geography of Bliss
He eats rotten shark in Iceland, gets fried on Moroccan hash in the Netherlands, and graciously accepts a 14-inch gift penis in Bhutan.
By AMY FINCH  |  April 08, 2008
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The French are coming

Justice and Busy P bring the Ed Banger sound to Boston
The launch of an extensive North American tour sponsored by MySpace that comes to the Paradise this Saturday.
By BEN WESTHOFF  |  March 10, 2008
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Screaming Masterpiece

Sort of crap
Magnússon’s film fails to illuminate what this declaration of independence meant or how it was carried out.
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 06, 2008
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Steep

Reckless and soulful
“Mountains have the last say,” explains his stoic wife. “Sometimes they swallow you up.”
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 16, 2008
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Eclectic finds

Looking for the brave and the new in 2008
With the frigid weather and bracing winds, the natural inclination early each new year is to go a bit fetal, curl up, and hibernate until springtime.
By SUSANNA BOLLE  |  December 26, 2007
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''Great Journeys''

From Marco Polo to Twain and Shackleton, with a bit of Pico Iyer
Now that the jungle is withdrawing, and the wilderness is tenanted, the brief of the travel writer has altered somewhat.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 24, 2007
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Benni Hemm Hemm

Kajak | Morr Music
The language of twee-dom knows no borders.
By DAVID DAY  |  June 26, 2007
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Jubilation!

Today Massachusetts, tomorrow the world
We can all thank the conservatives who several years ago controlled the state legislature for the fact that Massachusetts citizens have same-sex- marriage rights.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 14, 2007
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The Boss of It All

Since when do we believe Lars von Trier?
The Boss of It All reflects on the mysteries of identity, responsibility, globalization, and Gambini’s æsthetics of theater.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 30, 2007
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Gus Gus

Forever | Groove
This Iceland outfit’s fifth album says electronic club music — the kind created by DJs, not rock bands.
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  May 22, 2007
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Brave new world?

Adventures in outsourcing, or, Why the Herald should move to Mumbai
PasadenaNow.com recently hired two India-based reporters (combined salary: approximately $19,000) to cover the Pasadena City Council. Could it happen here?
By ADAM REILLY  |  May 16, 2007
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Road rules

Andrea Arnold takes on Lars von Trier
Dogme is out, done for, as are Lars von Trier’s sly strictures on making Dogme films: only natural lighting, the actors must wear their real clothes, etc.
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 08, 2007
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Readers' pick: DJ


Though he's based in Boston, DJ Justin Carr can be heard ’round the world, thanks to his stint as a resident spinner for PureDJ.com.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  April 17, 2007
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PRC anniversary show

30 years and counting
The Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, has announced a call for entries for the 12th installment of its annual — and acclaimed — juried exhibition.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 20, 2006
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Portland to host international gay conference

Showcase
US Representative Tom Allen will be there. Governor John Baldacci is expected to show.
By TONY GIAMPETRUZZI  |  October 25, 2006
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‘Ice’ is nice

Schmoozing at the Reykjavík Film Festival
In culture-crazy Reykjavík, the city of 200,000 that spawned Björk, Icelanders have practically everything to get them through the cool-to-cold weather: a symphony orchestra, dance and theater companies, rock bands and poetry readings, and an astonishing number of Euro-hip galleries and art museums.
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 11, 2006
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Kristin Hersh’s family affair

Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave, and Bullseye
It’s a family affair. Really.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  August 15, 2006
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Home on the range

Laura McPhee’s deadpan take on nature  
This is one of those revisionist Westerns. Her subjects reflect what her father, Pulitzer-winning journalist John McPhee, has called her “constant search for the dividing lines between altered and unaltered worlds.”
By GREG COOK  |  June 07, 2006
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Apocalypse now

Killing Joke resume their urgent war dance
Jaz Coleman — magus, timelord, leader of the tribe of Killing Joke — is theatrically drunk on the end of a phone in the Czech Republic.
By JAMES PARKER  |  May 28, 2006
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Sigur Ros at the Orpheum

Stylized soundscapes
Well, having done the research, I’m warming to this Jonsi Birgisson — gay, blind in one eye, loves Iron Maiden, plays the guitar with a cello bow, and sings, when the mood takes him, in a made-up language called “Hopelandic.”
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 15, 2006

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