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Thursday, January 28, 2010

/Arts

Finding her voice
An ex-con, a village, an opera

Half-century
Highlights of Colby's collection

Hedonism at its best
Absurdist mirth and wonder in Ubu Roi

Power of place
Exploring a New England ghost town in person, and on the page

/Food

Don't be chicken
Dig right in at Binga's Stadium

/Life

Corporate Persons Are Jerks
Big Fat Whale

Soups of Eastern Europe
Hoopleville

What if John McCain had become president?
Idiot Box

/Movies

An idyll examined
Frederick Wiseman's four-hour, 1999 documentary about Belfast, Maine

Is there 'hope' in Hollywood?
Three controversial (and sure to be Oscar-nominated) films tackle race in the age of Obama

Oscar predictions 2010
With 10 Best Picture noms, is Oscar up in the air? Our critic predicts.

Review: Extraordinary Measures
The business of who lives and who dies

Review: Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold's unsentimental education

Review: Legion
God is fed up with all the bullshit

Review: Mystery Team
Those meddling kids

Review: Tooth Fairy
It bites

/Music

Basia Bulat | Heart Of My Own
Rough Trade (2010)

Brave new Raw Era
Sibilance

Fresh Vetz | Vet Status
Top Shelf (2009)

Interview: Ozzy Osbourne
The belles lettrist tells all

/Music Continued

Pit Er Pat | The Flexible Entertainer
Thrill Jockey (2010)

Portland Symphony Orchestra
Music Seen

Priestess | Prior To The Fire
Tee Pee (2009)

The Big Hurt: Billboard Top Hip-Hop and R and B songs
Who charted?

The Magnetic Fields | Realism
Nonesuch (2010)

Various Artists | Pop Ambient
Kompakt (2010)

Woe be gone
Moshe and Brzowski revel in the sacred and profane

/News

Bus fares set to climb
Transport Watch

Department of conjecture
Letters to the Portland Editor, January 29, 2010

Jane Austen + Grinder Girl
Balls, Pucks, and Monster Trucks

Second choice
The ills of instant-runoff voting

Starting to clear Maine’s broadband backlog
Mapping the Internet

Trying times for Obama
Tough times for the nation

/RecRoom

Lonely island
Michael Emerson sheds some light on Lost

Review: Army of Two: The 40th Day
One step forward, but Army of Two steps back

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