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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

Play by Play: June 12, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  June 11, 2009
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Full shelf

The best in summer reading
Hot town, summer in the city. . . . or in the country. . . . or at the beach. Wherever you are, don't forget your books.
By BARBARA HOFFERT  |  June 08, 2009

Play by Play: June 5, 2009

Plays A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  June 02, 2009

Play by play: May 29, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 27, 2009
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Spite the power

This week in protest saw teens swarm the State House and tired bus drivers rally
While the economy has given us a collective jackboot to the groin, it has also seemingly stirred a civil discontent.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 11, 2009

Play by Play: May 1, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 28, 2009

Play by Play: April 24, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 22, 2009
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Quincy council plays with dolls

All they want to do is dance
Local burlesque group the Boston Babydolls are getting their tasseled titties twisted by Quincy Ward 6 City Councilor Brian McNamee.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  April 22, 2009
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Museum pieces and other pieces

Jazz Week returns, the Jazz Hall of Fame inducts, Ron Gill says bye
It's Jazz Week time again — that time when the Boston jazz community looks to expand its minority-appeal music to a larger public.
By JON GARELICK  |  April 21, 2009

Play by play: April 17, 2009

 Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 14, 2009

Play by Play: April 10, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 08, 2009

Play by play: April 3, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 01, 2009

Play by Play: March 27, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 24, 2009

Play by Play: March 20, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 18, 2009
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DIY and more

Regattabar, Scullers, Creative Nation Music's fifth-anniversary celebration and more
Jazz acts up
By JON GARELICK  |  March 30, 2009
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Slideshow: Blastfest 2009

Photos from the Whitehaus Family Blastfest 2009 at the Cambridge YMCA, March 13, 2009
Whitehaus Family Blastfest 2009
By CHRIS DEMPSEY  |  March 17, 2009
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Health-care's big moneyman in New England

Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region
Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region
By STEVEN STYCOS  |  February 20, 2009

Play by play: February 13, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 11, 2009

Play by Play: February 6, 2009

Plays A through Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 09, 2009
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Avanti!

Garrison's Fewell's journey out
By the time guitarist Garrison Fewell made his first record as a leader, in the early '90s, he was nearly 40 years old, and the sound he displayed on his debut, A Blue Deeper Than Blue , was ripe.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 06, 2009
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Start Snitching

Wilkerson, Murray, and just about everyone else forever hold their peace
There's a new theater in the multilateral conflict spurred by bribery charges leveled against former state senator Dianne Wilkerson.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  January 07, 2009
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Fourth-quarter earnings

Haden, Hunter, Rollins, Mela, Bley, and e.s.t.
Times a-wastin' on 2008, so before it's too late, here's a handful of discs that have caught my ear over the past few months.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 17, 2008
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Free-improv festivities

The first annual Smash Palace
The first annual Smash Palace
By SUSANNA BOLLE  |  November 24, 2008
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Death of a hoop dream

Mario Hornsby Jr. was senselessly gunned down in May. Now his father is trying to make sure his death was not in vain.
This past fall, Mario Hornsby Jr., then a senior at Springfield Central High School, wrote an essay for English class.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  August 28, 2008

Corrente’s born-again retirement

If at first you don’t get a taxpayer-funded pension, try, try again
Now here’s a shocker: the Providence Retirement Board made a stupid decision. My heavens!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  August 20, 2008
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Please shut up!

Our salute to a few of the most obnoxious people of the week
How can we miss you if you won’t go away?
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  July 16, 2008
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Beat Generation

Ed Lin’s second novel is an authentic portrait of Chinatown in 1976
Set in New York City’s Chinatown during America’s bicentennial and the pessimistic aftermath of the Vietnam War, Ed Lin’s second novel, This is a Bust, is ripe with political, institutional, and racial turmoil.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  July 09, 2008
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Streetball spectacle

The other end of the court
The other end of the court
By NEELY STEINBERG  |  June 18, 2008
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Pete Robbins

Do the Hate Laugh Shimmy | Fresh Sounds New Talent
Alto-saxophonist Robbins’s writing on these 10 originals never settles for theme-solos-theme variations.
By JON GARELICK  |  May 12, 2008

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