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Thursday, December 09, 2010

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Gift Guide 2010: Real gifts for real people

Stocking stuffers for the drunks, hippies, and geeks in your life
So, what do you get for the drug dealer who has everything? Flummoxed by the thought of trying to surprise the music snob on your list? We'll tell you what presents they want this year.
By: PHOENIX STAFF  |  December 08, 2010
 

Arts

Gift Guide 2010: Books that'll make your coffee table look smart
 Rock of Pages
Gift Guide 2010: Graphic novels and comic anthologies
MFA reinstates women's art prize
Unrewarded
Review: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Plus Mrs. Grinchley; Merrimack's Beasley; Stoneham's Pageant

Food

Flatbread Company at Sacco's Bowl Haven
A trip down Sacco's memory lanes
Petit Robert Central
Jacky's empire strikes back

Life

A study in absurdist sex dialogue
Failure
Adventures at Tech Mart
Hoopleville
Boston's Best Indie Craft Fairs: Welcome to Craftghanistan
A never-ending quagmire of felted owls, twee pirates, and racy onesies
Filthy Rich Facts
Big Fat Whale
Here comes Weeda Claus
And the Smoke Encircled His head Like a Wreath
Holiday Gifts for People We Hate
When a lump of coal just won't do
Regretsfully yours: A holiday stroll through the bowels of Etsy with April Winchell (a/k/a Helen Killer)
It's the most garbage-ful time of the year
She's too damn controlling
 Reality Check

Movies

Interview: Mark Wahlberg
The good fight: the actor on bringing Micky Ward to the big screen
Review: Die Nibelungen
Fritz Lang's other classic
Review: I Love You Phillip Morris
Should have been a drama instead
Review: Queen of the Lot
Tanna Frederick not so irritating this time
Review: Spring Fever
Artful, dreary, and pointless
Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Kind of like looking for the Horcruxes in The Deathly Hallows , only less fun
Review: The Fighter
Family feud: the toughest bouts are outside the ring
Review: The Warrior's Way
Dong-gun Jang's worst enemy: his director
Review: Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham makes herself at home
Six Boston accents worthy of Oscar
Pahk the awahds in Hahvahd Yahd

Music

Bombay Bicycle Club | Flaws
Island (2010)
Buff1 and DJ Rhettmatic | Crowne Royal
Fat Beats (2010)
Henry Threadgill's untrackable journey
Impractical genius
Ke$ha | Cannibal
RCA (2010)

Music Continued

Matt Wilson | Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O
Palmetto (2010)
Pascal Pinon | Pascal Pinon
MORR Music (2010)
Photos: Boston Music Awards 2010
Boston Music Awards 2010 | Liberty Hotel | December 5, 2010
Photos: SSLLOOWW with Avoxblue
Avoxblue | Middlesex Lounge | November 30, 2010
Pre-Weezer: The Metal Years
Rivers' edge
Reading Rainbow | Prism Eyes
HoZac (2010)
Reflecting on the solo path of Faces on Film
The isolated chronicler
Review: BEMF's Dido and Aeneas
Plus the BSO's Schumann and Harbison, Haochen Zhang, and a Concert for the Cure
Shackleton | Fabric 55
fabric Records/EMI (2010)
The Big Hurt: Cidade de Biebs
Why was Justin Bieber in the mansion of a Rio drug lord?
The future was now at the 2010 BMAs
Scene together
The historical strum of Bert Jansch
Folk lure
The schlock opera of Peaches Christ Superstar
The last rubber
The Sunshine Factory | Sugar
Self-released (2010)

News

A planet falls
Letters to the Boston editor, December 10, 2010
Interview: Boston City Councilor Matt O'Malley
The new kid
The velvet rope of prejudice?
Race relations
Wiki paradoxes
Plus, kudos to Council and DeLeo

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Getting Hotter''
Step by step, it'll all get done
Gift Guide 2010: DVD Box Sets
Sureties and obscurities
Gift Guide 2010: Ski and snowboard accessories
Buck up, little shopper
Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns
Monkey shines



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