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Thursday, November 25, 2010

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Why Bookstores?

As the recession claims more and more big chain stores, independent booksellers become hot commodities
Boston is pocked by vacant storefronts. Businesses don't sell in this economy; they just disappear. But there is one exception: of all things, bookstores are selling like proverbial hotcakes.
By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON  |  November 23, 2010
 

Arts

From Russia with fate
Doctor Zhivago revisited
Morality play
Huntington's Vengeance is sweet
Photos: The MFA opens its new Art of the Americas wing
An opening-weekend tour of the MFA's new Art of the Americas Wing
Streetcraft and stagecraft
Mark Bradford's LA, Triiibe's Eden

Food

The Foundry on Elm
A big room that seamlessly balances the best of bistro and comfort food

Life

Franchise opportunities
 Big Fat Whale
Photos: JP vs. Somerville dance-off
 Civic pride on the line at Fourth Wall Project
Psychological profiles
Hoopleville
Refudiate!
  Idiot Box
The new MFA
 Failure
The Next Alcoholic Product To Get Banned In Mass
Meet the future Four Loko
Why Bookstores?
As the recession claims more and more big chain stores, independent booksellers become hot commodities

Movies

Burden of dreams
The Weimar cinema's shadows play with ugly realities
Interview: Edward Zwick, director of Love and Other Drugs
Beyond Glory days
Review: Faster
The cinematic equivalent of a head shot from the Rock
Review: Love and Other Drugs
Zwick, Gyllenhaal, Hathaway give us a hard sell
Review: Made in Dagenham
Hawkins gets fiery as union leader
Review: Tangled
This is Disney, all right
Review: White Material
Claire Denis revisits her themes of the legacy of colonialism and the intricacy of racial relationships

Music

A wild night for Billy Ruane
A wild night for Billy Ruane
Brandon Flowers and the evolution of a pop-star Killer
The Flamingo kid
Edan brings beauty to the big screen
Audio-visionary
Electronic Havana
Another side of Cuba, another side of Berklee; plus Jason Stein and the Dymaxion Quartet

Music Continued

Girl Talk | All Day
Illegal Art (2010)
My Chemical Romance | Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Reprise (2010)
Ocean Colour Scene | 21
Universal (2010)
Ra Ra Riot graduate to the indie elite
Senior project
Skipp Whitman | Skipp City
Self-released (2010)
Stereolab | Not Music
Drag City (2010)
The Big Hurt: Corgan vs. Malkmus: 15-year grudge
Feud reunions
The boy with The Thorn in his side
On the record with Jesse Gallagher and Biff Rose

News

#MaHeritage
What would you add to a list of Massachusetts's 'intangible cultural heritage'? We asked, you answered — In 140 characters or less.
Bugged
Letters to the Boston editor, November 26, 2010
Gen X Goes to Washington
It's the first major slacker-generation wave of congressmen — but are they Alex P. Keatons, or nihilistic cranks?
Jeb Bush, savior of public education
Waiting for Kryptonite
Patronage = corrpution
Plus, the Pope + condoms
The Annual Thanksgiving Squid Maze
Back by popular demand
Viral justice?
The media might have moved on, but RCC students won't let a case of potential police brutality on campus fade without a fight

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Crunchy on the Outside''
Fry that sucker!
Review: Dance Central
Harmonix busts a move
Review: Glory Daze
An unfunny comedy about the '80s



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