Table of contents for week of December 9, 2005
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Phoenix writers test toys and gadgets, proof read books, and find the right spices to spice up the season in this year's Guide to the Seasons. |
Republicans and Democrats alike are rejuvenating their parties with young blood. Ian Donnis looks into the political youth surge and even talks to a few college activists.
Deirdre Fulton gets a glimpse of Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts's first abortion test.
Phillipe & Jorge: WMDs found!
Ask Dr. Lovemonkey: Ex-Boyfriend blues
Savage Love: Disabled and willing
Editors' Picks
Crossword Solution: Solution for the Jonesin' Crossword of December 9, 2005: "Initial Reaction" — Matt J. in da house!!
Plus, this just in:
SUPREME FIGHT: Ramping up views on Alito nomination
CITY WATCH: A downtown moment between a bistro and a strip club
TALKING POLITICS: Whitehouse dodges debate on Iraq (for now)
Astrology: Moon Signs
MUSIC
Bob Gulla talks to Days Unknown about trying to make it big and Joanne Lurgio about trying to put out her CD, Find a Dream . . . Catch It If You Dare, plus more.
Matt Ashare bops back to the '80s and '90s with box sets Whatever: The '90s Pop & Culture Box and Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story.
Joyce Millman rediscovers the formative power of The Boss's Born To Run.
Also, short reviews of:
THE COMPLETE JELLY ROLL MORTON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECORDINGS BY ALAN LOMAX
CHILDREN OF NUGGETS: ORIGINAL ARTYFACTS FROM THE SECOND PSYCHEDELIC ERA, 1976–1996
ONE KISS CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER: GIRL GROUP SOUNDS LOST AND FOUND
THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS: PCD
THE ROLLING STONES: THE SINGLES: 1968–1971
FILM
Gary Susman catches The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
This week's trailers:
AEON FLUX
SYRIANA
Worth the Trip:
The Talent Given Us at the MFA.
THEATER
Bill Rodriguez appreciates the old-fashioned romance and edgy darkness of Romeo and Juliet.
Worth the Trip:
Three Sisters at American Repertory Theatre and White Christmas at the Wang Theatre.
A Doll’s House at Devanaughn Theatre and Red Elm at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
DANCE
Worth the Trip:
Nutcracker at the Opera House
ART
Bill Rodriguez checks out the art at It’s Not So Big, It’s Not So Pricey show at the Space at Alice.
Worth the Trip:
"Syncopated Rhythms 20th-Century African American Art from the George & Joyce Wein Collection" at Boston University Art Gallery.
"Icons + Altars" @ New Art Center in Newton, "Third Thursdays" screening of I Shot Andy Warhol also @ New Art Center in Newton, and "To Delight the Eye" @ Fogg Art Museumr.
TELEVISION
Hot dots: TUESDAY 13: 9:00 [2] FRONTLINE: THE WALL STREET FIX | An old report tracing the rise and fall of WorldCom, the company that made Wall Street insiders rich and robbed average investors.
FOOD
Johnette Rodriguez's post-Thanksgiving appetite has her heading for pizza at Carmella’s Middletown.
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