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Sipping from the bottom up

Going green
This growing season, get rid of that watering can.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 12, 2011

Photos: Boston Flower Show at the World Trade Center

Boston Flower & Garden Show | World Trade Center | March 20, 2011
The Boston Flower & Garden Show takes over the World Trade Center from March 16-20, 2011.
By DAVE BARKER | March 21, 2011

Grand Theft Oater?
The land doesn't care. Not about the storms that blow across its plains. Not about the animals that stalk one another through its grasses. And certainly not about the men who occasionally appear over the horizon and try to build a civilization on its sands.
By MITCH KRPATA | June 21, 2010

Potatoes and a pennywhistle on Somerset Street

In the Garden
Drive south on Broad Street past the markets and churches, take a left on Somerset and there, in a clearing of raised garden beds behind a chain-link fence, you will find Phil Edmonds with his peas.
By ELIZABETH RAU | April 02, 2010

Topiary Slalom

Hoopleville
Welcome to the Wide World of Garden Sports
By DAVID KISH | February 17, 2010

Lilac beard

Failure
Hey, look: a lilac beard!
By KARL STEVENS | July 08, 2009

Livin' la Vida Locavore

If farmers and artisans are packing their best goods and schlepping them to your 'hood, cheap, what's your excuse for not consuming them?
Winter has always traumatized New Englanders, but because of the economy (thanks, rapacious mortgage-bundling douche bags!), this past season was particularly grim.
By SHAULA CLARK | June 10, 2009

Fred Woodward | Urban Garden

Ujam (2009)
Veteran Boston jazz guitarist Fred Woodard comes from the Wes Montgomery and Grant Green schools of elegant post-bop funk with a contemporary spin of hip-hop and avant-garde.
By JON GARELICK | April 14, 2009

That's how people grow up

Morrissey, live at House of Blues, March 29, 2009
Morrissey specializes in decadent enlargements of contrary emotions: he's got despair on lock, he's an excellent sculptor of ennui.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 31, 2009

Growing good air

Going green
What's greener than houseplants?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 18, 2009

Crossword: ''Double dip''

It's giving me an ice cream headache
It's giving me an ice cream headache
By MATT JONES | February 18, 2009

The parent trap

Coraline pushes familiar buttons
Coraline pushes familiar buttons
By PETER KEOUGH | February 06, 2009

Review: My Bloody Valentine 3-D

Not for the squeamish
Back in the early '80s, before Michael, Jason, and Freddy took off as slasher all-stars, there were other less famous genre seedlings, like the homonymous source for this pedestrian hack-'em-up about a pickax-wielding wonk gone berserk in a sleepy mining town.
By TOM MEEK | January 20, 2009

Man and Wife

Harry Callahan’s photos of Eleanor at RISD
"I think I've photographed the same things all my life," Harry Callahan said in 1991. "Buildings and grasses and people walking." And, for a stretch running from about 1941 to 1963, that included his wife, Eleanor.
By GREG COOK | November 19, 2008

A shadow world

Lauren Fensterstock’s unsettling installation
The centerpiece of Lauren Fensterstock’s installation at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art is what appears to be a large black pool with giant lily pads.
By KEN GREENLEAF | October 09, 2008

10 above-and-beyond Earth-huggy ways to do things in Boston that, of course, do not use gas

By MIKE MILIARD | June 11, 2008

Meow mix

Katt and some other cats
Spring showers have yielded not only vibrant daffodils and vexing pollen but also a variety of recordings by local experimental musicians.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | May 13, 2008

Flashback

The high voltage work of Corita Kent
Sister Corita Kent was something of a celebrity.
By GREG COOK | May 07, 2008

May 2, 2008

Weekly forecast
Weekly forecast
By SYMBOLINE DAI | April 30, 2008

Digging in

Scrutinizing the sustainable-farming message
When The Real World goes green, you begin to wonder whether we’ve reached critical mass on this whole environmentalism/eco-chic/rolling-out-the-green-carpet schtick.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 28, 2008

The bong show

Massachusetts lawmakers are pushing to criminalize Salvia. Is this a test-run for marijuana-law reform?
Some state legislators are using the flawed logic of prohibition to try to outlaw another plant they fear kids are using as a legal substitute for pot.
By JAMES TIERNEY | April 23, 2008

Off the wall

The strained poetry of . . . and Jesus Moonwalks
Unfortunately, while many passages of fervently gathered lyricism are thrust toward us like exotic bouquets between scenes of ordinary conversation, the poetry doesn’t accumulate impact.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 15, 2008