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Menopause the Musical  summers at Trinity 
Here's a hot flash for you: dying is easy (in the theatrical sense of bombing onstage); producing a successful show is hard.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  June 02, 2009
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Celebrating the original DIY

Sex can't get any safer than having it with yourself
Like you, dear readers, I was apparently too busy exploring south of the border to even realize it, but I just found out that May was National Masturbation Month.
By YOUR SECRET ADMIRER  |  June 03, 2009
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The original DIY, observed

Celebrating the safest of sex, plus what to do when dates collide
This explains a lot: May was National Masturbation Month, first held by the San Francisco-based sex shop Good Vibrations in 1995, and celebrated nationwide. (Some places even hold Masturbate-A-Thons to raise money for local HIV- and AIDS-prevention organizations.) Is that why everyone's been so giddy of late?
By YOUR SECRET ADMIRER  |  May 27, 2009

Crossword: ''That's B. S.''

At least it's broken up
At least it's broken up
By MATT JONES  |  May 29, 2009
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Legalize pot now

With support from the unlikeliest circles, this could be marijuana's moment
The Obama administration, already overtaxed with two foreign campaigns, made headlines this past week when the White House's newly minted director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy called for an end to the "War on Drugs."
By MIKE MILIARD  |  June 01, 2009

Recession lesson

Drinkin 'n' thinkin'
Cigarette tax hikes in Rhode Island have smokers kicking the habit.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO  |  May 20, 2009
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Turkey Terror Tale

Tom Foolery
Violent crime, gang activity, and general thuggery are not recurring themes on the Brookline police blotter. But that civic paradise is plagued by another kind of scourge — one that manifests all three of those crimes in avian form. And it isn't bird flu.  
By LANCE GOULD, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY EMILY MELLO  |  May 13, 2009
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You Snus you lose

Rhymes with noose
Unbowed by last month's $1 a pack increase in the cigarette tax, the tobacco industry is pushing new unhealthy products to gain more Rhode Island customers.
By STEVEN STYCOS  |  May 13, 2009
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Review: Fig Trees

Strikes a delicate balance among solemnity, wry humor, and rage
Here's a first: an AIDS documentary nested inside an opera that's obsessed with albino squirrels, figs, palindromes, and Pythagoras.
By SHAULA CLARK  |  May 06, 2009

They said what?

Republican lawmakers sound off on global warming
GOP leaders have a reputation for shunning science in favor of politics: on stem-cell research, evolution, and of course, climate change. As the global-warming battle heats up, so has their often-nonsensical rhetoric.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  May 06, 2009

Do state officials know best?

Word From The Top
Like when the country goes to war, most news reports of how state government is handling the H1N1 “swine flu” crisis have just repeated what officials have said.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  May 07, 2009
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Flat Patties

Making a virtue of a usually guilt-ridden quickie
A fast-food cheeseburger is like a drunken assignation with a stranger met at a wedding reception: momentarily delectable but often leading to shame, nausea, and possibly even health issues.
By MC SLIM JB  |  May 06, 2009
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Boston's Severin problem

Is WTKK up to measuring degrees of intolerance?
The questions raised by the Severin incident have a philosophical and moral resonance that has been touched upon only in passing.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 06, 2009
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Dodging shots


In politics, and with the media, it's the outcome, and not the intention, that matters. That's fortunate for Senator Susan Collins, who got lucky twice in the same week.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  May 06, 2009
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Review: 'A Horse Is Not a Metaphor'

Hammer's joy in being alive is no metaphor either
Cinema might not be able to cure cancer, but when wielded by a master documentarian like Barbara Hammer, it can squeeze a little beauty out of the disease.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 06, 2009

Safe sex, duh

UPDATE
A sharp-eyed reader caught an omission in one of Your Secret Admirer's previous columns.  
By YOUR SECRET ADMIRER  |  April 29, 2009
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Review: Pedro

An inspiring life reduced to sound bites, clichés, and hugs
There's no other reason to see the film.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 28, 2009
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The healing arts

Breathing Easier
Eunah Kim, a Korean-born, Cambridge-based artist with advanced lung cancer, has focused her craft on dark imagery.
By IAN SANDS  |  April 22, 2009

Going to pot

State medical marijuana law advances
The state's medical-marijuana laws, which govern how patients can access pot for medical purposes, is on the brink of significant change.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  April 15, 2009

Casco Bay to Copley Square . . . via Hopkinton

Epic stupidity?
When Boston Marathon runners cross the Copley Square finish line next Monday and sponge the diarrhea off their thighs, Will Thomas and Seth Bradbury will have even more to celebrate than their fellow soiled athletes.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 15, 2009
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A bug in your ear

Deer Tick neither bite nor suck
Back in the summer of 2004, John J. McCauley III was out for a hike with some friends in the woods of his native Rhode Island.
By RYAN STEWART  |  April 19, 2009
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Review: Shooting Beauty

Compassionate, and without pity
Sometimes just being a gifted artist doesn't mean you're the right person to tell the story.
By TOM MEEK  |  April 15, 2009
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Giant step

The Low Anthem sign with Nonesuch Records
Indie-folk trio the Low Anthem — Jeff Prystowsky, Ben Knox Miller, and Jocie Adams — have signed with Nonesuch Records, which will re-release their highly-acclaimed disc, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, on June 9.
By CHRIS CONTI  |  April 15, 2009

Holistic healing

Going green
Last month, I got hit with a nasty combination of the flu and tonsillitis, which left me barely able to swallow or speak.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  April 15, 2009
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Review: Crude

Quietly compelling
Joe Berlinger returns with a documentary that follows through on the promise of 1992's Brother's Keeper .
By BRET MICHEL  |  April 15, 2009
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Boston's Best Shopping 2009

The only marketing survey that counts
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who love to shop and people who would rather prepare for a colonoscopy than enter a store. This latter bunch could account for the Best Readers’ Poll write-in “votes."  
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF  |  April 16, 2009
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Dance Monkey!: Mehran Khaghani

Hates to be called Mommy Face
Every week we put a comic in the hot seat. This week's victim is...
By  |  April 10, 2009

Interview: James Carroll

The full transcript of the Phoenix's conversation with the author
The Phoenix 's Adam Reilly recently spoke with Globe columnist James Carroll about his new book, Practicing Catholic (Houghton Mifflin), and his critical but durable relationship with the Roman Catholic Church.
By ADAM REILLY  |  April 01, 2009
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Review: The Black Balloon

The complicated nature of acceptance
Toni Collette as another unflappable mother? This time to a spoon-banging, shit-smearing autistic teen?
By ALICIA POTTER  |  April 06, 2009

43. Denis Leary

JAKE THE FAKE
Why we suck? Here’s why you suck, “Dr.” Denis Leary: that book of yours is the most juvenile heap of taxi-driver observations since, well, since No Cure for Cancer . He may have apologized to the parents of autistic children for his unfunny printed tirade, but when’s he gonna apologize to us for the rest of his career?  
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009

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