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52 ways to leave 2009

Get your New Year's Eve down to an Auld Lang science.
Your usual lackadaisical approach to New Year's Eve — just see what happens and go with the flow — is not going to cut it this year. Sure, the end of this decade may not have the same kind of new-millennium pressure riding on it as the last one, but the plunge into 2010 is a milestone nonetheless.
By SHAULA CLARK | December 30, 2009

Crossword: ''Bank job''

You're getting colder
You're getting colder
By MATT JONES | December 02, 2009

Smashing success

The New Collisions start things off right
It feels as if all the music people these days were rushing toward a hyper-electro-modern future where they'll be programming drum machines hard-wired directly to their erogenous zones.
By BARRY THOMPSON | May 27, 2009

Action Jackson

Screaming down the Highway, over the limit
Locally, Loverless, This Way, and now Highway Jackson are forging a bit of a rock renaissance in Portland.
By SAM PFEIFLE | March 04, 2009

Let’s undo the movies

Chantal Akerman plays with your mind at MIT’s List Center
If those collective behaviors inspired and demanded by the cinema of its witnesses are, in essence, its very boundaries, Belgian-born filmmaker and video artist Chantal Akerman could be considered a smuggler.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | April 30, 2008

Both sides

Rachel Corrie and Pieces stand off in the Middle East
Two young women are coming of age on stage as part of New Repertory Theatre’s “Their Voices Will Be Heard” series.
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 12, 2008

Bob Enos, 1947-2008

Remembering one of a kind
“He could always hit those high notes,” said Roomful’s former bandleader Greg Piccolo.
By MARC LIPKIN | January 16, 2008

Finding dignity

Hilary Duff, Bank of America Pavilion, August 30, 2007
Of her fans — bespectacled little girls with glow sticks at Bank of America Pavilion — Duff exclaims, “It’s very, like, empowering!”
By ELLEE DEAN | September 04, 2007

Tween troubles

Kelly Clarkson’s fall from grace
Poor Kelly Clarkson.
By SHARON STEEL | July 09, 2007

Singin’ the trues

Martina McBride shows what she’s got
I’d be lying if I said I’ve liked every song I’ve ever heard Martina McBride do.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | May 22, 2007

Boston music news: January 26, 2007

Notes on the Tanya Donelly-Girl Authority connection, and the next Darkbuster Hometown Throwup
Not long ago, John Virant, label president at Rounder, was chatting up the nine-girl Boston pop group Girl Authority to Tanya Donelly.
By JIM SULLIVAN | January 23, 2007

Species warp

Larry Keigwin at Zero Arrow
Larry Keigwin’s dance is mostly about sex: homosex, heterosex, kinky, tender, tragic, contentious, friendly, and even subliminal sex.
By MACIA B. SIEGEL | February 09, 2006