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The Decemberists | The King Is Dead

Capitol (2011)
It may be called The King Is Dead , but the latest Decemberists album screams "rodeo" rather than "royalty."
By MIRIAM LAMEY | January 11, 2011

Friartown, redux

PC players foul out. Plus, helping Johnny Mac, a Supreme shift, and ‘Monbo Time’
Phillipe and Jorge have always had a problem with Providence College basketball’s advertising campaign, which refers to the area as “Friartown” in a delusional suggestion that the squad has support throughout the local community.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 14, 2010

Rise and fall

Naked Shakespeare's Richard II
For years now, the Naked Shakespeare Ensemble has brought its signature fare — stripped-down productions and ravishingly acute attention to the Bard's language — into a slew of non-traditional settings, including the Wine Bar on Wharf Street, SPACE Gallery, and the Sacred and Profane festival.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 20, 2009

Oil's well

Twelve American universities with Persian Gulf campuses
Twelve American universities with Persian Gulf campuses
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND KYLE SMEALLIE | September 25, 2008

Mad men

Orfeo’s Look Back in Anger; WHAT’s What the Butler Saw
Audiences must have developed shock absorbers over the course of the past 50 years.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 24, 2008

January 2008

Monthly forecast
Monthly forecast
By SYMBOLINE DAI | December 31, 2007

Honorable sacrifices

For God and King, at the Players' Ring
“Does one say ‘immoral’ or ‘amoral?’” a drunken, debauching young Henry II asks his best friend and chancellor, Thomas Becket.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 20, 2007

Salman speaks

Rushdie's new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, is a work of epic ambition that fuses myth with rock-and-roll reality
This article originally appeared in the May 6, 1999 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By PETER KADZIS | June 21, 2007

Paul’s got Kate?

Maybe not, but Simon Cowell goes up in flames
Paul Potts! Paul Potts! And again — Paul Potts!
By JAMES PARKER | June 19, 2007

Royal pain

Mirren and Frears save The Queen
Every tragedy reaches a point where mourning turns to kitsch. Watch the trailer for The Queen (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007

L’Allegro, fuss and feathers, and the ICA blues

A year in dance
This year we were looking forward to dance performances at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater in the new ICA.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 20, 2006

Off with their heads

Recent polls are giving the GOP the willies. So should the movies.
The signs are getting bleak for the man in the White House and the party in power.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 20, 2006

Back story

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
The English choreographer Matthew Bourne isn’t the first to propose an Oedipal dimension for Swan Lake .
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 25, 2006

Ballet birds

Matthew Bourne’s swans fly in
It’s been a decade since Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake burst into the public consciousness, transforming the familiar image of the ballet swan, with her crown of feathers and undulating arms, into a feral, malevolent male bird surrounded by his fearsome flock.
By IRIS FANGER | April 13, 2006

Hamlet unbraced

Aquila brings the Dane to town
When Prince Harry dressed up as a Nazi for his ill-fated costume party, most of the world was shocked. Robert Richmond saw parallels to the Melancholy Dane.
By SALLY CRAGIN | January 12, 2006