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Review: Mallu Magalhães

Vivo (2009)
Mallu Magalhães is a teenage girl from São Paulo who was raised on a steady diet of old Beatles, Dylan, and Johnny Cash records.
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  January 06, 2009
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Review: Prince of Persia

Run, jump, die, repeat
Pauline Kael titled one of her review compilations Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , saying that those four words (from a Japanese movie poster) captured the basic appeal of movies.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  January 06, 2009

Kaidoku XXXIII

Psycho Sudoku

By PSYCHO SUDOKU  |  December 31, 2008

Psycho Sudoku XXXIII - solution



By PSYCHO SUDOKU  |  December 31, 2008
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Music Seen: Anticon's 10th anniversary

Knitting Factory (Manhattan), December 18, 2008
Sure, Ray LaMontagne is huge and the Rustic Overtones saw their national time, but there is something to be said for a record label co-founded by Mainers that is more than a decade old and can still sell out the Knitting Factory in New York City.
By SONYA TOMLINSON  |  December 31, 2008
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Rehearsing their choir

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper are easy to find, easy to love
Epically twee, and then simply epic, "Comet Flies Over the Underbelly" — the fourth track on Lady Lamb the Beekeeper's Samples for Handsome Animals — is, for a minute or two, almost unbearable.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  December 31, 2008
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Johnnie's on the Side

The Front of the House is at the head of its class
This large space has always housed attractive restaurants, despite violating two of Nadeau's laws: Eateth Not Within 1000 Cubits of a Government Institution; and Ditto for Sports Stadia.
By ROBERT NADEAU  |  December 30, 2008
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163 Vietnamese Sandwich

The piquant (and unscary) joys of Asian sub sandwiches
163 Vietnamese Sandwich is a typical slightly shabby Chinatown storefront.
By MC SLIM JB  |  December 30, 2008
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Good news, bad news

Fear and loathing? Or happy days? The only thing we know for sure about the coming year is that we're all in this together.
It will be the best of times. Or, perhaps, it will be the worst.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  December 30, 2008
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Junk-food judges

The Best of the Bad
The Internet can help you answer any question these days.
By JULIA RAPPAPORT  |  December 31, 2008
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The gays can not be stopped!

DOMA Demo
The national LGBT equality group Join the Impact hopes to galvanize sympathizers across the country to demonstrate in their home towns on Saturday, January 10, in protest of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  December 30, 2008
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More sex, more Lincoln

A hefty reading season, from Jayne Anne Phillips and T.C. Boyle to Pablo Neruda
The subject of Lincoln is like catnip to publishers (and readers), but the only things missing from our winter list are actual cat books.
By BARBARA HOFFERT  |  December 30, 2008
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Old RI

Comic book brings Rocky Point Park back to life
Pawtucket-based artist Jason Mayoh recently published his third issue of Tales of Rocky Point Park .
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 30, 2008

Angkor Restaurant

Cambodian with a Khmer accent
There is an interesting story behind many of the recipes at Angkor Restaurant.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  December 29, 2008
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Year in pictures

Imagery 2008

By PHOENIX STAFF  |  December 24, 2008
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Eating like tourists

Are Portland restaurants captive to visitors' dollars?
This year Portland's restaurant "scene" seemed to nudge its way into the consciousness of the national food media
By BRIAN DUFF  |  December 23, 2008
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Review: The Reader

Tiresome and callow
It's Christmas, and our thoughts turn toward the Third Reich.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  December 24, 2008
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Josephs Two

Classic Italian-American and diner fare with no superfluous apostrophes
It's tough to be a punctuation stickler who writes about restaurants.
By MC SLIM JB  |  December 23, 2008
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My year in food

The 2008 Dining Awards 
The 2008 Dining Awards 
By BY ROBERT NADEAU  |  December 23, 2008
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Poetic sense

Age of art
For the last end-of-the-year review I had to rely on the kindness and opinions of others, having just started reviewing again after a long hiatus.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  December 23, 2008

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