http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living en-us 2007-12-06T17:16:00Z http://www.boston.com/ http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/bcom_logo_140w.gif http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/11/15/on_tv_men_are_the_new_weaker_sex?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News "Big Shots," ABC's mostly-comedic take on male bonding, is a man's idea of a woman's idea of men. The show's heroes - each the head of a corporation - are adorable, sensitive, flawed, and yearning for love. And they're eager to talk about it. They gab about troubled relationships on the golf course, across the pool table, in the steam ... Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/11/15/hottest_suburban_dad_alive?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Sounding a bit like LBJ, Matt Damon swears he did not seek and will not accept the mantle of "Sexiest Man Alive," which the discriminating editors at People foist on the Cambridge-bred actor in the new issue. "You gave an aging suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime," Damon writes of the overdue honor. "My 9-year-old stepdaughter now thinks ... Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/11/15/bway_talks_to_resume?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News With the lucrative Thanksgiving week looming, striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers say they will start talking again on Saturday. Local 1 and the League of American Theatres and Producers jointly announced yesterday that they will resume negotiations "at an undisclosed place and time." Thanksgiving weekend is one of the best times for business on Broadway, with many shows selling ... 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/11/15/in_mosleys_mysteries_a_history_of_race_relations_in_the_us?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News NEW YORK - When the world first met Easy Rawlins, he was 28. It was post-World War II Los Angeles - a city full of opportunity and without a long history - not a bad place to be for a smart, confident black man. Fired from his job, Easy was in need of fast cash to pay his mortgage. So ... Colleen Long, Associated Press 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/11/15/novel_set_in_vietnam_war_cia_history_win_national_book_awards?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News NEW YORK - Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke," a 600-page journey through the physical, moral, and spiritual extremes of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, won the National Book Award for fiction last night. Hillel Italie, Associated Press 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/11/15/drifting_in_the_shadows_of_hamlet?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News NEW YORK - The Wooster Group's production of "Hamlet" at the Public Theater is extremely interesting. It's almost as interesting as "Hamlet" itself. Louise Kennedy, Globe Staff 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/11/15/drawing_on_our_colonial_history?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News The Old North Bridge in Concord, site of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the first battle of the American Revolution, isn't so old. The bridge there has been destroyed by storms and floods several times and rebuilt. The current version, in what's now Minute Man National Historic Park, was erected in 1956. Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/11/15/fine_language_fiery_emotion?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News When reading books I'm going to review, I fold down the corners of pages containing passages that are especially illuminating or powerful. My copy of Irish author Anne Enright's "The Gathering," winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, is now twice its original thickness from all of those dog-eared leaves. In fact, about the only unfolded corner is the cover ... Julie Wittes Schlack 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/11/15/wror_and_wods_get_into_the_all_holiday_spirit_early?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Yes, as of this past Monday - more than a week before Thanksgiving - two Boston stations have already switched to a temporary format of all-holiday music. Clea Simon, Globe Correspondent 2007-11-15T05:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/09/23/warping_the_lessons_of_watergate?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News John Dean, who was White House legal counsel to President Richard Nixon, famously identified "a cancer growing on the presidency" when he testified as the government's key witness in the Watergate trial. In 2004, in the damning analysis "Worse Than Watergate" he made a similar diagnosis about the Bush-Cheney administration, and now "Broken Government" (Viking, $25.95) examines, with great precision ... Anna Mundow 2007-09-23T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/09/23/drawing_comics_is_easy?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News SHUTESBURY - Cartoonist Alexa Kitchen got her big break at the 2003 Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art book fair for independent presses. Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent 2007-09-23T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/09/23/short_takes_boston_globe?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Strawberry Fields By Marina Lewycka Penguin, 294 pp., $24.95 Marina Lewycka's first novel told the story of a quirky family of Ukrainian immigrants making a go of life in England among the bourgeoisie. In her second she branches out, telling the story of a quirky miscellany of Ukrainian, East European, Asian, and African migrants making a go of life in ... 2007-09-23T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/09/23/rebels_writers_and_milkmaids?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Knopf, 284 pp., illustrated, $24 When Laurel Thatcher Ulrich published "A Midwife's Tale" in 1991, the quiet revolution taking place in the academy went fully public. Discovering the history of women and entering it into the stories we tell ourselves about the past had been the focus of intense agitation by ... Sharon Ullman 2007-09-23T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/09/23/shelf_life?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Case revisited In 1974, Kenneth C. Edelin, an African-American doctor finishing his residency training at Boston City Hospital, was indicted on a charge of manslaughter. The indictment concerned an abortion he had performed on a 17-year-old girl; the alleged victim was her fetus. After a six-week trial, a jury convicted Edelin. In 1976, the state Supreme Judicial Court reversed the ... Jan Gardner 2007-09-23T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/calendar/articles/2007/09/20/get_your_ride_on?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Mystic River paths Where Run through Everett and Medford, with easy access in several spots. 2007-09-20T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/calendar/articles/2007/09/20/boston_by_bike?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Boston is a miserable city for bikers. The roads are glorified cowpaths - rutted, full of potentially lethal potholes, and loaded with sharp curves and odd meanderings. To call the weather inhospitable and unpredictable does not do justice to the 30-degree temperature swings of spring days or the 45-mile-per-hour winds of an early fall northeaster. Boston drivers are a national ... Dennis Fisher, Globe Correspondent 2007-09-20T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/calendar/articles/2007/09/20/jamaican_food_like_mom_makes?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News There's reggae on the radio, coconut water in the cooler, and chicken patties under the heat lamp. Lorenz Island Kuisine, with its bright walls and friendly owners, is a welcoming spot that has been serving authentic Jamaican food in Codman Square for a year now. Chris Lorenz Graham owns the place and runs it along with his wife, Samantha, and ... Bella English, Globe Staff 2007-09-20T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/calendar/articles/2007/09/20/a_big_step_up_from_the_dive_bar?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Coda's name is a reference to the intersection nearest the bar/restaurant: It's by the corner of Columbus and Dartmouth, in the space once occupied by Tim's Tavern. Its name is not meant to refer to the musical coda, a passage that both prolongs and concludes a movement. Still, this new hangout does extend the legacy of Tim's, which was celebrated ... Devra First, Globe Staff 2007-09-20T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/food/wine/articles/2007/09/19/a_toast_to_beers_biggest_booster?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Despite beer writer Michael Jackson's self-deprecating assertion on his website that he wasn't "that Michael Jackson," the revered London-based author, TV personality, and "beer hunter" was definitely a superstar in the brewing community. Ann Cortissoz, Globe Staff 2007-09-19T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2007/09/19/green_peppers_with_toasted_almonds_and_golden_raisins?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Serves 4 Serve with bluefish or steak, or use to top pizzas. Add the peppers to salads or serve with fresh ricotta on French bread toasts. 2007-09-19T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2007/09/19/a_peck_of_peppers?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Some like to pick green peppers off pizzas and pull them out of salads. They seem so much less exciting than the red, yellow, or orange ones. And there are so few recipes that use the green peppers as the primary ingredient. 2007-09-19T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2007/09/19/macadamia_nut_chicken?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Serves 4 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts Salt and pepper, to taste 6 cups bread crumbs 1 1/2 cups finely chopped macadamia nuts 3 cups flour 6 eggs, lightly beaten 1. Set the oven at 350 degrees. Have on hand a rimmed baking sheet. 2007-09-19T04:00:00Z http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2007/09/19/pork_chops_with_apple_cider?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News Serves 6 6 boneless pork loin chops (2 1/2 to 3 pounds) 2 tablespoons canola oil Salt and pepper, to taste 1/2 small onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 1/2 cups apple cider 1 teaspoon each chopped fresh oregano and thyme 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar 1. Set the oven at 400 degrees. 2007-09-19T04:00:00Z