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By MATT BORS | August 15, 2012

Slideshow: Grupo Fantasma live
Grupo Fantasma live at the Middle East
Review: Jonathan Richman at Middle East upstairs
The closing show of Jonathan Richman's three-night stand at the Middle East upstairs hit an early peak on the second song. "My Baby Love Love Loves Me" (from 2004's Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love ) smothered the audience with the intensely romantic side of his persona.
Review: Middle East and Laura Marling at SPACE
At SPACE Gallery, May 11
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Slideshow: Grupo Fantasma live
Grupo Fantasma live at the Middle East
Review: Jonathan Richman at Middle East upstairs
The closing show of Jonathan Richman's three-night stand at the Middle East upstairs hit an early peak on the second song. "My Baby Love Love Loves Me" (from 2004's Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love ) smothered the audience with the intensely romantic side of his persona.
Review: Middle East and Laura Marling at SPACE
At SPACE Gallery, May 11
Review: Waltz With Bashir
The so-called anti-war-film genre has lately "distinguished" itself with a flurry of Iraq-war flops featuring earnest polemics.
Sheila take a bow
It's a few hours before the Sheila Divine's free show at the Lansdowne Pub a week ago Thursday, part of WFNX's week-long Disorientation 2010 series.
Photos: Man or Astro-man? at the Middle East
Man or Astroman?, live at the Middle East downstairs, November 14, 2010
Istanbul'lu
On one side of the scales, Nadeau's Law: "Never eat anything famous." On the other side, chef-owner Huseyin Akgun, who really ought to be famous for his cooking at the original Beacon Hill Istanbul Cafe, the bigger one in Allston, and some other spots in between.
Review: Miral
Julian Schnabel, a painter by trade, comes at his films (all bio-pics) with passion and élan.
Will anything change now that Osama is dead?
The death of Osama bin Laden and the impending 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks have many people contemplating the gains and futility of nearly a decade of American engagement overseas.
Akrobatik: down but not out
It's hard to evaluate life-threatening illnesses if you skipped med school to kick rhymes.
New EPs, Arborea kickstarts for an album, and Spose's song-a-week
The much-anticipated BALTIC SEA full-length has been put on hold until the new year by ERIK ROCK RECORDS , but not to worry: The band are releasing a short-run EP with two songs from the upcoming album, plus a couple of segues and a free download of a b-side from the last record.
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