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Behind the (local) music

A new show shines a light in the recording studio
“Working in a studio for so many years, we get to work closely with musicians when they are at their most creative — and most vulnerable,” says Marc Bartholomew, audio engineer and co-runner of Hanover Street’s Acadia Recording Company.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | October 07, 2009

Imagine that

2nd Story's Harvey is simply delightful.
Mister Rogers is dead. Long live Elwood P. Dowd!
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | August 18, 2009

After Sesame

Avenue Q is the street where you live
Where does Gen-X move when it’s way too old for Sesame Street and way too poor for Park Avenue?
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 14, 2008

Used but not abused

Are you afflicted with mall madness? Escape the suburban mobs at these 11 incredible vintage stores
The Maginot Line of vintage clothing is most assuredly underwear.
By SHARON STEEL | November 20, 2007

Use your illusion

Or, How I almost forgot it wasn’t really the Smiths
When Jose Maldonado pushed onto the stage at the Middle East downstairs last Friday and crooned the opening verse to “Ask,” I suddenly realized what it requires to get tired hipsters to dance with abandon.
By SHARON STEEL | May 23, 2006

Attack of the 50-foot Oprah

Why America’s most powerful celebrity should be more feared than loved
David Letterman is by no means the first one to realize that the road to success — or forgiveness — entails planting a kiss somewhere on Oprah’s oft-fluctuating anatomy.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | February 09, 2006

The awful truth

Recent revelations about fictitious memoirs have exposed our society’s lust for stories about savaging helpless children
Not to be outdone by recent Beltway-corruption scandals, the ordinarily more-subdued literary world found itself two weeks ago grappling with its own grim little fraud.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | January 25, 2006