Thursday, March 04, 2010
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Rock icon Patti Smith recalls burroughs and Mapplethorpe, the early days of CBGB, and saddling up for Horses in this memoir excerpt
The stars were lining up to enter the Ziegfeld Theatre for the glittering premiere of the film Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones. I was excited to be there.
Arts
Excerpt: Patti Smith's Just Kids
Rock icon Patti Smith recalls burroughs and Mapplethorpe, the early days of CBGB, and saddling up for Horses in this memoir excerpt
Good company
Inspector Montalbano might be the friend you haven't met
Old masters
Anna Sokolow and Joseph Gifford
OMG, blame him
Holy Finger-Pointing
Play by Play: March 5, 2010
Theater listings, March 5, 2010
Point of no return
The end justifies the meaning in Don DeLillo's Omega
Food
Dosa Factory
Indian street-food snacks and more, tucked in the back of a grocery store
The Daily Grill
A newcomer earns its keep
Life
Movies
Oscar predictions 2010: Locker is a lock
Bigelow, Bullock, and Bridges also will win gold
Oscars Battle 2010
We pinned the Academy's favorites against each other in this online battle. Now you decide who goes home the ultimate winner.
Review: A Prophet
Jacques Audiard's Scarface for the new millennium
Review: Cop Out
More like strike out
Review: Terribly Happy
Exudes an evil all its own
Review: The Crazies
Glorious gore, without too much overkill
Review: The Good Guy
As much fun as chlamydia
Music
Dee's so fine
The girl-group delights of the Deelinquents
Interview: Max Raabe
Killer cabaret: bringing Berlin to Boston
Music Continued
Lady killer
Anything they can do, Dessa can do better
Past perfection
The radiant, repressed pop of Neon Indian
Photos: Black Eyed Peas at TD Garden
Black Eyed Peas, live at TD Garden, February 26, 2010
Photos: Ingrid Michaelson at Somerville Theatre
Ingrid Michaelson, live at the Somerville Theatre, March 2, 2010
Photos: Peelander-Z at the Middle East
With Animaniguchi, and Math the Band, live at the Middle East, March 1, 2010
Review: Rogue Wave at the Paradise
Rogue Wave, live at the Paradise Rock Club, March 1, 2010
Snakebite
Opera Boston presents the world premiere of Madame White Snake; plus the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Boston Philharmonic
The Big Hurt: Lightfoot lives!
Plus Weezy tweets and Mayer backpedals
The other side of heavy
Harvey Milk scramble your metal detector
News
Ken Miller just can’t win
Brown biology professor attacked by Darwin-hating fundies and leftie atheists alike
Signs of the Times
Letters to the Boston editor, March 5, 2010
Stop the Quinn-sanity!
Annals of Journalistic Awkwardness
The Big Ligotti
Like his homeboy Scott Brown, Boston's elephant in the room is poised to make noise beyond Massachusetts
The Cultural Caucus's big gamble
Formed to be a savior of the arts in the Bay State, a political coalition is playing high-stakes poker by putting casinos in its sights
Where's the outrage?
ACORN attack tape found to be fraudulent. Plus, applause for the merger of two AIDS agencies.
RecRoom
Lame Ducks
Oregon football closes in on infamy; plus, a Villanova Wildcat needs litter training
Nothing beats nothing
Jerry Seinfeld and Ricky Gervais return
