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Get more out of Boston for less. See 25 recession-proof (and fun) things to do.
After loss, new love and creativity found
Peter Lieberson's new song cycle reflects the sorrows, poignancy, and loves of his life.
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'American Idol' Top 11
The finalists sang Rolling Stones songs this week as one contestant was let go. See what Sarah Rodman thought of them, including Cape Cod's Siobhan Magnus.
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Artist as commodity
Andrea Fraser lampoons art world rubric in her performance videos and exploses the art world's bloated ego in the process.

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Calculating human costs in a world of machines
Elegantly stylized and wonderfully cast, SpeakEasy Stage Company's production of "Adding Machine: A Musical" is a 10.
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TELEVISION REVIEW
In ‘Justified,’ a portrait of the man as a good man
Raylan Givens is a full-on cowboy, despite the fact that it's 2010, and he is the mesmerizing hero of FX's terrific new series, "Justified."
- Chat Transcript Critic Matthew Gilbert talked TV


Greatness, from one generation to another
Even before HBO's "The Pacific" begins, some are wondering whether all these tributes add up to an idealized portrait that overlooks the flaws of the World War II generation, while shortchanging the contributions of the much-maligned boomers who followed them.
- TV review: HBO miniseries captures World War II action
- Tom Hanks on the making of 'The Pacific'
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'Green Zone'
In Paul Greengrass's film, Matt Damon plays Roy Miller, a chief warrant officer who races around Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction.

'The Yellow Handkerchief'
The movie takes a sentimental urban legend that has been floating around for the better part of four decades and fashions from it a small, achingly emotive drama.
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Concert review

For Dropkick Murphys fans, hearing of the green
During Friday nights kickstart at the House of Blues for this years six-day, seven-show extravaganza, the band blazed through 90 minutes that covered all the bases of the annual classic for a boisterous soldout crowd.


Golden times for Bublé
Canadian crooner Michael Bublé is happy to take a few risks these days and spread his wings as a songwriter.

Books

Review
Redefining terrorism in American history
Neither an academic clarification of terms, nor an appeal to mass hysteria, Michael Fellman's "In the Name of God and Country" enters obliquely into a discourse about terrorism.

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A serious look at a nearly forgotten man of history
Robert E. Sullivan's "Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power" is a magisterial biography of a man now nearly forgotten and always clearly misunderstood.


















