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Put the Pixies on your feet
Psyched about those Pixies shows at the Wang? Us, too. How'd you like to wear some special Pixies sneaks to the Pixies show? Vans is...
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Cranberry craze
In the spirit of the season, we've rounded up where to go to find this fall favorite.
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‘Glitter and Doom Live’
The double-disc album documents the crackling energy and force of various performances from Tom Waits's 2008 tour.
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Vicki Kennedy will talk to Oprah
This Wednesday, Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Senator...
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Is the North Shore Music Theatre coming back from the...
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Album reviews
Is their music as hot as their buzz? This week we find out
We get to see what some of the year's biggest names are made of, with the release of debuts from Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert, and music from Shakira and Lady Gaga.
- Adam Lambert shifts styles in ‘For Your Entertainment’
- Lady Gaga’s got a lot riding on ‘The Fame Monster’
- Susan Boyle: I Dreamed a Dream
- Shakira takes some subtle risks in gritty 'She Wolf'
- Q&A: Shakira says new CD looks out for single gals
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- More Celebrity News ABC cans singer Adam Lambert (Boston Globe, 11/24/09)
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Chief guilty of 3 counts in Parker-Broderick case
Barry Carpenter was convicted of three felonies but acquitted on burglary charges in the break-in case. (AP)
Final episode of TLC's 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' airs
The series that turned Jon and Kate Gosselin into celebrity parents has come to an end. (AP)
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Highlights and wins
Adam Lambert raised eyebrows, Jermaine Jackson wore a white glove as his late brother was honored, Shakira shook, and Whitney returned.
Concert review
Sonic Youth and the Feelies still do it with feeling
What's not to love about New York? For one raucous, revelatory Sunday night, the Wilbur Theatre should have been named "CBGB North" with its double dose of alternative rock from Sonic Youth and the Feelies.
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‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’
Where the first film's director, Catherine Hardwicke, plugged into Meyer's vision of supernatural teenage lust with abandon, Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that's a morning-after mope-fest.- Weekend box office: 'New Moon' earns $141M
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‘Precious’
This movie catalogs a wealth of human ugliness. It's even been made to look ugly, presumably to underscore the horror movie that is Precious's life. But "Precious," in its own way, is a work of astonishing joy.TV/Radio
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Frontline examines the credit card industry
“The Card Game" looks at the dark - and highly profitable - underbelly of the credit card system.
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Oprah's departure could have quite the effect
It's known as the "Oprah effect" — anything the billionairess media mogul touches, endorses, or barely mentions acquires a cult following. But what will happen once "The Oprah Winfrey Show" ends?
- Who’s lining up to fill Oprah’s shoes - or her time slot?
- Oprah ending talk show after 25 years on the air
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- Survey Are you sad to see the show go? Or is it time?
Theater/Art
Exploring paths to knowing the world
Yu-Wen Wu’s works meditate on how we come to know our world: through vision and metaphor, and also through measurement and comparison.
Stage review
The presence of Christmases past in ‘Tru Grace’
The spirit of holiday reflection is evoked in "A Christmas Memory" and "The Loudest Voice," short stories by two masters of the form that have been adapted for the stage.
Books
G Force | Mo Lotman
Harvard Square: an illustrated history in food
Mo Lotman's illustrated book shows an area in which continuity and change go together like ivy and brick.
Review
'Mother' starts strong but leaves the reader unbelieving
Every great whodunit has the ability to elicit something like "Of course, that's who did it and of course, that's why and how he or she did it." There are no "of courses" in "The Wrong Mother."