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Thursday, August 05, 2010

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Report from the Gulf

The BP spill is shattering hopes and dreams along the Gulf Coast.
On a windy Tuesday afternoon in New Orleans, Clara Gerica is in her usual spot: beneath a small, blue tent at the Crescent City Farmers Market in the well-to-do Uptown neighborhood.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  August 10, 2010
 

Arts

A good walk
Gail Caldwell remembers Caroline Knapp
Double exposure
Jenny Holzer and Miguel Gutierrez at the ICA, Monica Bill Barnes at Jacob's Pillow
Interview: Paolo Bacigalupi talks about The Windup Girl
Moor power for free
CSC's Othello on Boston Common
Photos: Work by Jenny Holzer at the ICA
Pre-performace projections on the waterfront
Play by play: August 6, 2010
Theater listings, week of August 6, 2010
Tracking time
Mark Ruwedel at PEM, Jerome Liebling at the Currier
Uninformed brilliance
Bill Burr earns raves for his rants

Food

Noche
Solid appetizers and late-night menu, just too conservative for the Theatre District
Olecito
Fine tacos in a shinier-than-usual setting

Life

Anti-Immigrant Stupor
Big Fat Whale
BP gets a new CEO
Idiot Box
Continuing education August 2010
Wanna be a game developer? There's a class for that.
Eco-friendly driving
Hoopleville
I didn't write the book report . . .
Reality Check
Informal ed
When you swap memorizing for learning, sparks fly and tuna rolls
Inside the minds of museum visitors
Failure
Leveling Up
Be a Boston-based video-game developer
Photos: Bumpkin Island Art Encampment
2010 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment | July 31–August 1
Photos: Roller derby in Providence
Roller Derby at the Indie Arts Fest , on July 31, 2010
Things that go Bumpkin in the day
Rock Homesteady

Movies

Review: Best Worst Movie (2010)
Best Worst Movie is the best
Review: Charlie St. Cloud
Efron, Steers go overboard
Review: Farewell
The big winner in this fact-based KGB drama? Western pop culture.
Review: Get Low
Duvall goes full hermit
Review: Kisses
A prepubescent, hard-boiled version of Before Sunrise
Review: The Concert
Enjoy laughing uproariously at cartoonish Russian stereotypes?
Review: The Other Guys
Will Ferrell returns to form

Music

Cults | Cults 7''
Forest Family Records (2010)
Endless Boogie | Full House Head
No Quarter Records (2010)
Fat Joe | The Dark Side
E1 (2010)
Getting folked
Prine, Helm, and Edward Sharpe highlight the Newport fest

Music Continued

Jackie Greene comes alive
Guitarist breaks from the Dead
Menomena | Mines
Barsuk (2010)
Miniature Tigers | Fortress
Modern Art/ILG (2010)
Photos: Arcade Fire live at Bank of America Pavilion
 Arcade Fire, live at Bank of America Pavilion, August 1, 2010
Photos: Black Keys at Bank of America Pavilion
The Black Keys live at the Bank of America Pavilion, July 31, 2010
Photos: Certified G'z at the Western Front
Certified G'z, live at the Western Front, on July 29, 2010
Photos: Newport Folk Festival 2010, Part Two
Andrew Bird, the Swell Season, Richie Havens, What Cheer? Brigade and more, live from Newport, July 30 - August 1, 2010
Photos: Newport Folk Festival, part one
The Low Anthem, Yim Yames, John Prine, Sharon Jones, Edward Sharpe and more, live from Newport, July 30 - August 1, 2010
Photos: Newport Folk Festival, part three
More from Newport, July 30 - August 1, 2010
Photos: Public Enemy: 1988-1998
 From the Phoenix archives: Public Enemy through the years
Psych in, psych out
Deep Heaven Now resurrects the ’90s festival
Social Studies | Wind Up Wooden Heart
Antenna Farm Records (2010)
Still Public Enemy #1
Twenty years after Black Planet, Chuck D continues to fight the powers that be
The Big Hurt: Kings of Leon pooped
Plus ultimate 2010 jam revealed, Joe Perry wrecked, and Neil Young unplayable
Who's afraid of Memoryhouse?
Ontario dream-pop duo find inspiration in the library stacks

News

Confessions of a pâté girl
Ah, growing up in Cambridge
DeLeo's the one
Don't blame Patrick or the legislature for the failure of casino gambling
Dicking around
Notes on war clubs, meat poles, and male sexuality
Double double's toils and troubles
Twins on Twins
More muzzles
Letters to the Boston editor, August 6, 2010
Notes on Fathers: What Illness Can Teach Us About Family Connections
Out There
Report from the Gulf
The BP spill is shattering hopes and dreams along the Gulf Coast.
Rookies Go Bust
DeLeo and Baker were bested in Beacon Hill's gaming showdown, not so Cahill

RecRoom

Buzzer beaters
The home-invasion trend hits Philly. Plus, Shawne Williams's spiral continues.
Crossword: ''The damage is done''
A body of work in body work
Review: Limbo
How low can you go?



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