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Year in Dance: Reusable histories & durable trends

No startling breakthroughs, but that's okay
Conservation is a good thing in these times, and some of the most interesting performances drew on the uses of history — personal history, performance history, and even some inventions that sought to overturn history.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 24, 2008

Mixed nuts

Ballet Rox's Urban Nutcracker
Ballet Rox's Urban Nutcracker , the ultimate multicultural Christmas celebration, has become so inclusive, it's almost a blur.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 19, 2008

Old wives’ tales

Follies at the Lyric; We Won’t Pay! by the Nora
A pretty girl is less like a melody than like yesterday’s news in Follies , the New York Drama Critics Circle Award–winning 1971 musical that lost money but became the stuff of legend.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 09, 2008

Winged feet

Dance around town
Dance highlights from the fall season.
By DEBRA CASH | September 11, 2008

Hancock

Comedy or existential drama?
Director Peter Berg’s latest, which suffers from a major identity crisis, could be the biggest test of Smith’s ability to open a summer “tent-pole” picture since 1999’s The Wild Wild West .
By BRETT MICHEL | July 01, 2008

Pride Week 2008

Sustaining community: the fun never stops
Boston Pride Week 2008 is shaping up to be a joyous smorgasbord of celebrities, literati, dancing, singing, boozing, schmoozing, friends, family, and joyful noises galore.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | June 04, 2008

Getting real

Activists gather sigs to oppose ‘Real ID’
Activists are teaming up in outrage against the Maine’s seeming acquiescence to federal “Real ID” demands.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 21, 2008

Channeling Shakespeare

Cardenio at the ART; King John at ASP
Cardenio , an early-17th-century play in which Shakespeare may well have had a hand, has been MIA since its debut and will doubtless remain so.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 19, 2008

Combat and rain

Nai-Ni Chen at John Hancock Hall
Taiwanese choreographer Nai-Ni Chen danced with Cloud Gate Dance Theater before moving to New York in 1982, and her work, like theirs, is a suave amalgam of traditional Chinese elements and modern dance.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 13, 2008

Urban cheek

BalletRox's Nutcracker
There are several meanings to the word popular, and BalletRox’s The Urban Nutcracker satisfies the truest of them.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 11, 2007

Menino’s hit list

40 potential candidates for the 2009 election who could take on the mayor — if they have the courage.
At a recent political event, Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Robert Crane, the former long-time state treasurer, how many years he had held that office.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 28, 2007

Suffrage net city

The Web has become key to presidential politics — we rate the candidates on how they’ve put Al Gore’s invention to use
Three years ago, when the Red Sox were winning and John Kerry was losing, YouTube hadn’t even been invented.
By MIKE MILIARD | November 28, 2007

Mitt's equity army

Romney’s war chest is overflowing with the contributions of his financial-world pals. But what is the price of their loyalty?
The predictions coming out of Ames, Iowa, hold that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is expected to win this weekend’s closely watched straw poll.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 10, 2007

Bad Boston

27 things that drive us crazy about the city we love
Why are Bostonians so damn mean?
By PHOENIX STAFF | January 17, 2007

First Night 2007

From Voltron and John Doe to fireworks and U.V. Pro, an insider's guide to getting the most out of your button on New Year's Eve.
Boston's not-so-silent night will be hot enough to melt ice sculptures. And that's just the weather forecast.
By SHARON STEEL | January 04, 2007

Fantasizing Congress

Democracy in action
With football in playoff mode and spring training two months away, participants in any of the Web’s innumerable fantasy sports leagues may see this winter as a fallow period, a time when they could get rusty. Lucky for them, the 110th Congress convenes on January 4.
By MIKE MILIARD | January 03, 2007

Reconstruction project

JV Darapsinga gets a new lease on life
Twenty-five-year-old Javon Townes (a/k/a JV Darapsinga) shows up for interviews as if he were about to hit the stage — as if he were expecting someone to call with a gig any minute.
By MATTHEW M. BURKE | December 12, 2006

Technopolis lost

A development dream that didn’t come true
It was a grand vision. Maybe even a noble one. “TECHNOPOLIS.”
By MARTY D. WOLFAND | December 06, 2006

Top-cop shopping

Has Menino already decided on the next police commissioner? And if so, why won’t he name him or her till November?
It’s been three months since former commissioner Kathleen O’Toole announced she was leaving the Boston Police Department, and only one bit of information has been confirmed: Mayor Thomas Menino isn’t making the mistake of rushing to name her replacement.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 15, 2006

Citizen arrest

As we brace for a bloody summer, the Mayor misses two opportunities to build trust between the city and its police
When it comes to violent crime, Boston Mayor Tom Menino has some advice for his constituents: trust the police and help them do their jobs.
By ADAM REILLY | June 24, 2006

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