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Dining Out

Restaurant critic Devra First took your questions.

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Mallard Fillmore

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Barlow's

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'Highway Rider'

Pianist Brad Mehldau's highly-anticipated new jazz album goes nowhere.

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Jamie McCourt for....president?

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After loss, new love and creativity found

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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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Theater/Art

Galleries

Artist as commodity

Andrea Fraser lampoons art world rubric in her performance videos and exploses the art world's bloated ego in the process.

STAGE REVIEW

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."

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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.