Table of contents for week of April 22, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
While a boon for the chronically homeless, one substance-abuse counselor warns that the new Logan projects need oversight. By Sara Donnelly.
The Greens might join forces with the Republican party to veto Baldacci's budget, proving once again that the enemy of one's enemy is one's friend. Or maybe just that politics is stupid.
A national driver’s license — in reality, a national ID card — would let the government track and restrict all our movements. And that’s un-American. By Richard Sobel.
Plus, this just in:
EDITOR'S NOTE
GET TOGETHERS: Study corporate power, make friends
THOSE WACKY ARTISTS: Passenger takes on Angioplasty
FORCED INTIMACY: Alehouse’s window to the soul
Politics and Other Mistakes
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Prepare for some absolutely horrifying syntax with jdwalker's Them Got You. But prepare also for some damn good rhymes. By Sam Pfeifle.
The new British invasion is a hip-hop variant called "grime," and leading the charge is the precocious Dizzee Rascal. By Nick Sylvester.
David Gedge returns to the Wedding Present. If you know what that sentence means, then you probably also know that's good news. By Adam Bregman.
Mikael Wood says American Hi-Fi just want to have fun, but from their lyrics it sounds like they also have trouble getting girls. And that's certainly no fun.
Gary Burton's protégés pull him back into the band business. By Jon Garelick.
Josh Kun speaks of the desert hero Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero.
Insomniac Dave Attell brings his stage show to Boston. By Ted Drozdowski.
Plus, Sibilance.
Worth the trip:
Lost City Angels
Also, short reviews of:
Adrian Belew: SIDE ONE
Clem Snide: END OF LOVE
Dr. Dog: EASY BEAT
Ed Harcourt: STRANGERS
Hella: CHURCH GONE WILD/CHIRPIN’ HARD
Damien Jurado: ON MY WAY TO ABSENCE
Sylvie Lewis: TANGOS AND TANTRUMS
FILM
Short reviews of:
A LOT LIKE LOVE
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR
THE INTERPRETER
KUNG FU HUSTLE
Worth the trip:
The Independent Film Festival of Boston
THEATER
Drunks, at Mad Horse, is a glimpse into Alcoholics Anonymous. By Megan Grumbling.
DANCE
It's hard to know what's more exciting: the "Dance USM" program at USM that feature professional-quality dancing, or that we're running a new dance story.
Worth the trip:
Martha Graham Dance Company in New York
ART
At the Altered Book Project, there are books that can be pulled on a leash, used as a lectern, beheld for their artful additions and alterations — or read, even. By Chris Thompson.
BOOKS
Douglas Wolk stands up for comic books, in particular DC's Birds of Prey and Marvel's Daredevil.
Richard C. Walls revisits the work of H.P. Lovecraft and wonders if the horror writer earned his legacy.
TELEVISION
Joyce Millman checks out Kenneth Branagh as FDR, plus the new Miss Marple, Geraldine McEwan.
FOOD
Joe S. Harrington says Nile is an oasis in the Arts District.
Andy King heralds an unexpected classic at the Blue House Café.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2004
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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