Table of contents for week of March 4, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
"Good news" and "AIDS" don't often belong in the same sentence, but Tony Giampetruzzi says there is reason to be encouraged.
Is Jon Stewart too smart for his own good? Not as long as he keeps up the dick jokes, says Dan Kennedy.
Shay Stewart-Bouley says increasing diversity brings good and bad changes to our doorsteps.
Plus, this just in:
MILESTONES 1: USM Women’s Studies celebrates its silver anniversary
MILESTONES 2: Geno’s is dead; long live Geno’s
CONSERVATIVES NEED LOVE TOO: Hannity plays Cupid
Politics and Other Mistakes
Bramhall Square
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Chris Dahlen stumps for Hush, Hush Sweet Harlot at the Red Door in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Big-time soprano Deborah Voigt comes to the Merrill By Becca Dewan.
Nick Sylvester talks to Hot Hot Heat, who have a new album coming out. Good timing, seeing as "Bandages" just now got out of our heads. Oh, crap, there it is again.
In keeping with this week's theme of incomprehensible sub-headlines, New Jersey's A Girl Called Eddy heard London calling. Seriously, WTF does that mean? By Mikael Wood.
Worth the trip:
Color and Talea at Zeitgeist Gallery
Also, short reviews of:
Eric Clapton: SESSIONS FOR ROBERT J
Adam Green: GEMSTONES
Hawthorne Heights: THE SILENCE IN BLACK AND WHITE
Jesu: JESU
Moby: HOTEL
Mu: OUT OF BREACH
Pit Er Pat: SHAKEY
FILM
You'd assume that a film named Be Cool would be, well, pretty cool. But that's why you're not a film critic and Peter Keough is.
Short reviews of:
MAN OF THE HOUSE
THE JACKET
CURSED
THEATER
Megan Grumbling says Good Theater more than lives up to its name with A Man of No Importance.
Worth the trip:
The Producers at the Colonial Theatre
Homebody/Kabul at the Boston Center for the Arts
ART
Chris Thompson talks entropy with Rachel Katz. The story starts off great, but becomes progressively more unreadable. *rim shot*
Worth the Trip:
"Dreaming Now" at the Rose Art Museum
BOOKS
Alex Irvine takes a Suburban Safari with Hannah Holmes, which we imagine is probably the most appropriate occasion there is to don a pith helmet.
Author Temple Grandin delves into the non-human mind to discover more about how her own brain works. By Amy Finch.
Plus, Ink Slingers.
TELEVISION
What do Kirstie Alley's new show Fat Actress and HBO's Deadwood have in common? They're both focused upon in Joyce Millman's article this week, and that's about it.
FOOD
Anthony King feigns ignorance on the subject of Ragù pasta sauce, being the fancy-pants food critic and all.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2004
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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