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							  Welcome to the gayborhood.
							  Fifteen years ago, Glenn Beck was a small-market DJ with a drinking problem, no friends, and bleak professional prospects. Today, he’s a Fox News superstar averaging 2.4 million viewers, an inexorably successful author, and the leader of a popular movement that condemns government in general and President Barack Obama in particular.
							  I can’t speak for the kids, but I would rate Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 40-page children’s picture book up there with  Up  and  Wall•E  as topping the recent renaissance in children’s movies. If pressed, I’d rank it close to  The Wizard of Oz .
							  If new albums by Super Furry Animals, 50 Foot Wave, and the Flaming Lips are any indication, 2009 is smack in the middle of a new psychedelic age.
							  Photos of Paramore and Paper Route at the HoB
 
				
					
					
							
							  Welcome to the gayborhood.
							  Fifteen years ago, Glenn Beck was a small-market DJ with a drinking problem, no friends, and bleak professional prospects. Today, he’s a Fox News superstar averaging 2.4 million viewers, an inexorably successful author, and the leader of a popular movement that condemns government in general and President Barack Obama in particular.
							  “I got very tired of being called an ‘alternative journalist’ for so many years,” says former  Phoenix  reporter Al Giordano. “Alternative to what?"
							  Here’s a new way to tell when college kids are back in Boston: shelves at the Joint — a new Comm Ave head shop near Packard’s Corner — resemble electronic-store aisles during the Los Angeles riots.
							  I can’t speak for the kids, but I would rate Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 40-page children’s picture book up there with  Up  and  Wall•E  as topping the recent renaissance in children’s movies. If pressed, I’d rank it close to  The Wizard of Oz .
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