Table of contents for week of July 1, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
Remember that alleged tax relief due the citizens of Maine? Well, someone's getting rich: Maine's timber-barons will gain millions by the elimination of capital-gains tax. By Lance Tapley.
Sara Donnelly explores the French sport of Freerunning, which has taken hold everywhere from Scion commercials to Portland.
Mike Miliard hangs out with Boston's ineffectual Communists, who swear the revolution is coming once someone gets off their ass and just does something.
Adam Reilly introduces George Allen, Republican 'It' Boy.
Shay Stewart-Bouley gives thanks that Maine is a state that allows her the right to choose how her baby will be birthed.
Plus, this just in:
EATING LOCAL Share shares
PBS UPDATE Clifford gets a reprieve
UPDATE 2 CAFTA, up or down
OP-ED Polls don’t tell Baldacci’s story
THEATER SCENE Act like you mean it
CRUISE CONTROLLED Katie, Katie! Are you okay?
GROKSTER BLUES Marketing to scofflaws
Politics and Other Mistakes
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
Satellite Lot will release their long-awaited debut, Second Summer, this summer. Sam Pfeifle says the disc was worth the wait.
Matt Ashare explores the legacy of three geeks from Northampton who became Dinosaur Jr., attends rock therapy with the band, and debugs their classic album Bug.
Tracy Bonham returns to Boston via Brooklyn. By Mac Randall.
Ted Drozdowski explores the true-to-life fictions of Ry Cooder and Mark Knopfler.
DJ Shadow's landmark album Endtroducing... is back with a facelift. By Ken Micallef.
DJ Danger Mouse goes from Grey to Technicolor by teaming up with Gorillaz. By Simon William Vozick-Levinson.
Plus, Sibilance.
Also, short reviews of:
Boredoms SEADRUM/HOUSE OF SUN
The Epoxies STOP THE FUTURE
Fountains of Wayne OUT-OF-STATE PLATES
Doris Henson GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY
Mem Shannon I’M FROM PHUNKVILLE
Rachid Taha TÉKITOI
FILM
If aliens did invade Earth, at least we wouldn't have to hear about Tom Cruise anymore, right? Well, maybe not, if Steven Spielberg's scary War of the Worlds is any indication. By Gary Susman.
Chris Fujiwara praises George A. Romero's Land of the Dead. Among the many things this film has going for it is a lack of screen time for Tom Cruise.
Short reviews of:
REBOUND
THEATER
Get some real classic rock at Seacost Rep with a performance of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.
ART
Maggie Knowles says Rockwell Kent rocks well at the Portland Museum of Art.
Worth the trip:
"Double Take: Photorealism from the 1960s and ’70s" at Rose Art Museum
Danijel Zezelj and the thoroughly modern Gardner Museum
BOOKS
Dai Sijie takes Freud to China in Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch. Review by Clea Simon.
FOOD
There's no better summertime dessert than strawberry shortcake. Andy King has some tips to make this killer classic.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2005
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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