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Get Sprung: 20 things you should get out and do this spring

Get out and explore Boston
Bike erotica enthusiasts, freaks, geeks, big names in comedy and music, and pillow fights abound this spring.
By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO AND MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  March 21, 2011
 

Arts

Love and Robots in Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera
In Tod Machover's new opera, Death and the Powers , high technology meets high anxiety
Philadanco brings the funk
Ferocious euphoria

Food

Review: Bosphorus
A coming-out party for Turkish food in Boston
Saus
  Belgian street food that's good with both kinds of sauce

Life

Book Squad 911
When your library's underwater, who you gonna call?
Parental devices
Big Fat Whale
Photos: PAX East 2011 (Saturday)
At the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center | March 12, 2011

Movies

Jane Eyre redux
Cary Fukunaga and Mia Wasikowska hold forth
Plain Jane
And all the better for it
Review: Battle: Los Angeles
Jerry Bruckheimer's version of a "Be All You Can Be" PSA
Review: Envy
Who envies who? You'll want to stick around to find out
Review: I Saw the Devil
Gruesome repetition is a big part of serial killing and this Korean horror film
Review: Kill the Irishman
"There's a bit o' good in every Irishman"...and in this slick gangster biopic
Review: Of Gods and Men
Thoughtful true story about the search for peace and purpose in a chaotic world
Review: Paul
E.T. riff confuses fanboy-baiting references with actual gags
Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
Slick legal mystery plays like an above-average TV crime show pilot

Music

25 Essential Hip-Hop Acts at SXSW 2011
Beyond New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, or Atlanta
A pint with Ken Casey and Al Barr of the Dropkick Murphys
"I didn't know we were associated with Faneuil Hall"

Music Continued

Getting it live: Boston's Spring jazz preview
Singing and more in the clubs
Photos: Bright Eyes at the House of Blues
Bright Eyes + Mynabirds | House of Blues | March 10, 2011
Photos: Pogues at House of Blues
Pogues | House of Blues | March 12, 2011
R.E.M. | Collapse Into Now
Warner Bros. (2011)
SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 1: the adventure begins
South by Southwest Music Festival | March 15, 2011
SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 2: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at the Phoenix
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | SXSW | The Phoenix, Austin TX | March 16, 2011
SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 2: First Contact Austin day party at Klub Krucial
First Contact: Austin Day Party | Klub Krucial | March 16, 2011
SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 2: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper at the Swan Dive
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper | SXSW | Swan Dive, Austin TX | March 16, 2011
SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 2: on the streets of Austin
The Phoenix team hits the streets at SXSW 2011
SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 2: Wild Flag at Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop
Wild Flag | SXSW | Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop, Austin TX | March 16, 2011
Withered Hand | Good News
Absolutely Kosher (2011)

News

Anonymous unmasked
Crazy Like a Fawkes
Bachmann overdrive
Turn off the dark
China Syndrome
Ian Bowles reflects on moving Massachusetts into the lead on clean energy -- and how the feds might have thrown it all away
Nuclear Failure
When safe enough doesn't cut it
Responses to the Dickwolves Debacle
Letters to the Boston editor, March 18, 2011

RecRoom

Crossword: ''High High, Captain''
Time for some H-2-oh!
Review: Killzone 3
What if you don't play Killzone 3 in 3D?

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