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Thursday, January 13, 2011

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Unlocking knowledge

From OpenCourseWare to co-ops, area schools are taking their learning outside the classroom
Back in 2000, when Google was two years old and the all-for-naught panic over a worldwide Y2K meltdown had subsided, the MIT faculty had to answer two questions: how is the Internet going to change education? And what are we going to do about it?
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 12, 2011
 

Arts

Artists probe atrocities, the atmosphere, and yarn
Research and development
Hip-hop history
Dan Charnas's story is bigger than the music
Interview: Bob Saget
Balls-deep introspection
Jokes and the unconscious spar in Hysteria
Sang Freud
Live! — sort of
Fela! on screen

Food

Great Taste Diner
Living up nicely to a slightly boastful name
Review: Canary Square
Remaking a popular spot in Jamaica Plain

Life

Boehner's Agenda
Big Fat Whale
How To Be Good at the Future
Tap into technology and make yourself a Master of Tomorrow
MLK's ghost visits the ghost of Detroit
Hoopleville
Panhandling
Idiot box
Photos: Michele McPhee hosts book signing party for A Date With Death
Michele McPhee signs  A Date With Death | Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grill | January 3, 2011
Photos: No Pants Subway Ride Boston 2011
No Pants Subway Ride | From Alewife to Hynes Convention Center | January 9, 2011
Unlocking knowledge
From OpenCourseWare to co-ops, area schools are taking their learning outside the classroom
What do you think it all means?
Failure
What gap?
Reality check

Movies

Panahi is silenced, but the Festival of Films from Iran goes on
Persian Gulf
Review: And Everything Is Going Fine
Want to know more about Spaulding Gray? Don't start here.
Review: Country Strong
Pretty weak
Review: Leaving
Kristin Scott Thomas stays cool
Review: Season of the Witch
Nic Cage can't save this one

Movies Continued

Review: The Green Hornet
Seth, where is thy sting?

Music

Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker display their indie artifacts
Antiques roadshow
Country Strong | Soundtrack
Sony (2011)
Down in the folk trenches with the Old Edison
A fighter's chance
Joe Lovano Us Five | Bird Songs
 Blue Note (2011)
Social Distortion | Hart Times and Nursery Rhymes
 Epitaph (2011)
The Big Hurt: Biebs's babe
Plus Bach's split, Thude's Justin, Blu in Seattle, and Muse in space
The Decemberists | The King Is Dead
Capitol (2011)
The new Brighton Music Hall is ready to roll
Sound investment
The Smith Westerns | Dye It Blonde
Fat Possum (2011)
Two Door Cinema Club embrace dance hooks
Pop rocks
White Lies | Ritual
Fiction (2011)

News

American psycho
And the American psychosis
Desert Storm: How the GOP and the Sunset State nurture the lunatic fringe
Tragedy in Tucson re-opens the question of the GOP's dangerous embrace of extremists
MIT blows out 10010110 birthday candles
Sesquicentennially yours

RecRoom

171 ski events to do this winter
Ride out the snowpocalypse the fun way
Crossword: ''The Worst of 2010''
 just when you thought it was over...
HBO's Big Love shows us the inequalities in every marriage, writ large
Big Patriarchy
Interview: Chloë Sevigny
On acting, freaks, nerd roles, the end of Big Love, and why she doesn't want to be any more famous than she is
PBS looks at the darker side of changing the world
Digging up dirt
Rich harvest: Parks and Rec reaps a bounty
Rich harvest

BLOGS
Andrew C. McCarthyism
Talking Politics  |  January 15, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Meet the Mayor: Great Scott
Phlog  |  January 14, 2011 at 11:48 AM
See this film: Dead Snow at the Coolidge
Outside The Frame  |  January 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM
RIP Trish Keenan of Broadcast
On The Download  |  January 14, 2011 at 9:18 AM
[video] The Old Edison, live in Allston
January 13, 2011 at 2:40 PM
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