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							  It's no secret that daily-newspaper journalism is in huge trouble.
							  As with Best Picture, the themes of death, aging, and difficult love dominate the two Shorts Oscar categories this year.
							  Teens with special powers? A government conspiracy?
							  The Czech choreographer/Nederlands Dans Theater director made an evening out of five pieces —  No More Play, Petite Mort, Sarabande, Falling Angels, and Sechs Tänze  — he'd created between 1986 and 1991.
							  In lieu of action, character development, or plot,  The International  offers architecture.
							  The Massachusetts-bred street artist Shepard Fairey returned to his home-turf this month to "bomb" the Phoenix offices, conduct interviews, and unveil his latest work at the ICA.
							  Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.
							  Joss Whedon continues to fight the darkness
							  Pierre Morel's talents as an action cinematographer served him well when he directed  District B13.
							  I travel to Manhattan a lot, and since 9/11 have found Amtrak's Acela service out of Back Bay Station a far more pleasant and hassle-free way to get there than flying.
 
				
					
					
							
							  Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region
							  It's no secret that daily-newspaper journalism is in huge trouble.
							  Whatever your race — and whatever you think of his résumé, or his politics, or his yen for tax-cheating cabinet nominees — Barack Obama's arrival in the Oval Office is something to celebrate.
							  If you find yourself groaning through the first five minutes of Jeremiah Zagar's Academy Award-shortlisted feature documentary about his artist father Isaiah, you might just be its target audience.
							  The Portland Symphony is in trouble. The unresolved dominant-seventh chord — a $2 million loss over the past eight years, and a possible shortfall of $220,000 this year alone — would be a setback for any company. But for the symphony, this is more than that.
							  A few months back, one of my best friends from high school slept with the guy to whom, years earlier, she had lost her virginity.
							  A list of hospital CEOs' compensation
							  Shepard Fairey and his show "Supply and Demand" arrive at the Institute of Contemporary Art like a guerrilla general emerging from the jungle after his forces have taken the capital.
							  R. Crumb's Underground at MassArt
							  Man, has this been an interesting few weeks in sports crime, featuring some of the weirder cases you'll  ever  hear about.
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