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Review: The Cove

Secret dolphin slaughter revealed
There's something at stake here, and it's not just the conscience of Ric O'Barry, who as the former dolphin trainer for the 1960s television show Flipper feels responsible for the planet's porpoise fetish.
By CHRIS FARAONE | August 04, 2009

Review: The End of the Line

Doomsday from under the sea
Eating fish is great for you — but it's a different story for the poor fish.
By GERALD PEARY | July 22, 2009

Ronnarong

A small-plates concept elevates a veteran Thai place above the pedestrian
For more than 10 years, the Great Thai Chef held forth in Somerville's Union Square.
By MC SLIM JB | July 15, 2009

Film: Universal Bites Jaws Into Vineyard

"All is grist to their mill."
Gov. Sargent posed for the photos on a pier in Edgartown, preparing to let fly a bottle of vintage California champagne against the hill of the Orca, a pleasure craft transformed into a Nova Scotian Trawler to be used in Universal's production of Jaws.
By PETER BIRGE | June 19, 2009

Into the heart of sharkness

Shark expert Greg Skomal torpedoes the Great White hype
Unless you are a spectacularly moronic daredevil hell-bent on getting shark-shanked, New Englanders are more likely to be mowed down by a molasses tsunami or felled by Lizzie Borden's ax than they are to die in the maw of Jaws.
By SHAULA CLARK | June 11, 2009

Splash, on demand

Water parks that float our inner tube
A crippling (and, as we've discussed, utterly ridiculous) fear of sharks isn't the only thing capable of keeping us away from the beaches this summer.
By SHAULA CLARK AND CHRIS FARAONE | June 11, 2009

Heart of sharkness

Shark expert Greg Skomal torpedoes the great white hype
Unless you are a spectacularly moronic Masshole hell-bent on getting shark-shanked, New Englanders are more likely to be mowed down by a molasses tsunami or felled by Lizzie Borden's ax than they are to die in the maw of Jaws.
By SHAULA CLARK | June 11, 2009

Review: Otto; or, Up With Dead People

Plods at an undead pace
"Wow, I just got a mental flash of thousands of zombies jumping over a shark."
By SHAULA CLARK | May 06, 2009

Middling earth

Too much talk spoils the images
At times, the images in Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield's documentary adapted from the BBC nature series of the same name elicit that rare cinematic response: wonder.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 21, 2009

Rant: We need more artists!

Some people say we need more doctors, more teachers, more engineers. Fools.
There's just not enough art to festoon all the walls in all the coffee/sandwich/burrito/gelato/bagel/pizza/frogurt shops in this great art-loving, snack-loving city of ours.
By DAVID KISH | February 25, 2009

Stuff your stockings

Maine-made treats for the holidays
For Christmas last year, my shop-local plan had me assembling gift baskets brimming with foods for several families on my list.
By TODD RICHARD | December 10, 2008

Mixed Magic’s Moby Dick goes to DC

Whale tale
In 2006, Pitts-Wiley wrote Moby Dick: Then and Now , a theatrical version of Herman Melville’s book, which joined the story of Captain Ahab chasing a great white whale to an urban tale of teenagers chasing “that Great White Thing” — cocaine.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | November 05, 2008

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

An uninspired sit-com packed with Hollywood stars
It’s a light entertainment that can cash in with election-weary audiences.
By BRETT MICHEL | November 05, 2008

No sex, please, it's Boston?

Nicholas Hlobo tones it down at the ICA
It’s a big, curious, floating object, a leaping whale, a flying squash, a makeshift anatomy display, with a bit of carnival atmosphere.
By GREG COOK | August 04, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Bethany Van Delft

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
I’d eat a cup of salt so that I might come close to experiencing what a dolphin frolicking in the ocean might experience.
By MARC HIRSH | July 15, 2008

Werner’s world

Herzog’s End justifies his means
The world is doomed, and Werner Herzog, for one, is happy about it.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

Pole sitter

Interview: Werner Herzog ponders the end of the world
Speaking to the legendary German filmmaker is like speaking to God.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

Happy days

The Geography of Bliss
He eats rotten shark in Iceland, gets fried on Moroccan hash in the Netherlands, and graciously accepts a 14-inch gift penis in Bhutan.
By AMY FINCH | April 08, 2008

Sizing things up

Monumental Prints and Small Ponds at the Davis Museum, ‘Art and Math’ at Axiom, Glass Sea Creatures at Harvard, and New Rationalists at Proof
Back in the day — and by that I mean the 15th century — printing on paper was in its infancy in Europe, since the process of papermaking had just made its way there from China.
By RANDI HOPKINS | March 10, 2008