Celebrity
Top 10 local stories
The Globe's Mark Shanahan and Paysha Rhone remember the newsmakers that kept the Hub abuzz in 2008. (Yes, that's you, Tom and Gisele.)
Most captivating stories
From Brangelina to Britney, here's a look back at the news that captured our readers' attention this year.
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Movies
Boston Globe movie critics Ty Burr and Wesley Morris each share their picks for the top 10 best films of the year. The videos below were shot as part of Burr and Morris's Take 2 weekly video review podcast.
Ty Burr's top 10
The year's best films were full of unlikely heroes. "Slumdog Millionaire" makes this list.
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Things to do
Games and more
Blogs
'Avatar' projection issues? Maybe yes, Maybe no.
Some interesting responses from my posting late last week about...
New contemporary curator at MFA
After searching around the world for more than a year,...
Bubs take second place
After a week of strong competition, the Beelzebubs took second place...
Globe critics
From Heath Ledger to Tina Fey, we were one in 2008
If you felt uncommon hope and unprecedented despair this year, join the club. Pop culture helped pull us together through the highs and lows.
TV/Radio
Colbert, Stewart led the fray
The presidential campaign gave TV comedy an electric jolt in 2008 and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert (left) and Jon Stewart were on fire.
Media
Fey drilled Palin, Couric got cred, and papers saw red
The long, fascinating presidential campaign defined the media landscape this year.
Music
Pop
Teens acted their age, and some hope for hip-hop
The year in pop music was kind of like the economy: For every up there was an even more dramatic down.
Classical
A new-music party 100 years in the making
It was a big year for new music in Boston. At the center of it was a 100-year-old composer of bracing modern music named Elliott Carter.
Theater/Arts
Dance
Moving works stood out in a year of hard times
Local dance chronically lacks support and recognition, though some choreographers are still managing to put together note-worthy productions on shoestring budgets.
Visual Arts
Bold strokes at Mass MoCA; inspiration at the ICA
This year saw the new Institute of Contemporary Art truly come into its own, and everyone in the art scene seems to agree: Boston needs the ICA to thrive.
Theater
Small companies had big ambition
At best, solid admiration, not transporting thrill, is the prevailing mood about the theater scene in 2008.
A see change in 2008
It's been a seismic year for Boston art galleries. More than a dozen commercial galleries moved, closed, or changed hands this year.