Table of contents for week of August 22, 2003
NEWS & FEATURES
Camille Dodero wonders how a tough economy could affect Somerville
and its thriving arts community.
Trudy Lieberman examines the
hungry in America.
Michael Bronski pores over Hawthorne and Melville's complex
relationship.
Tamara Wieder gets down with the high
and mighty Jim Hightower.
In the Phoenix editorial
we accuse president Bush of playing politics with our energy grid.
In "Out
There," David Valdes Greenwood doesn't fall for forwards.
Genevieve Rajewski gets charitable in "Urban
Buy."
Letters
to the editor
Moon Signs
Dr.
Lovemonkey
Plus, this just in:
MEDIA:
Ex-Phoenicians buy Bay Windows and South End News
MEDIA:
Mitt Romney’s secret tormentor
FIRST
PERSON: New York unplugged
JUSTICE:
A short strike yields a short-term fix
GERM
WARFARE: South End to biodefense lab: Bug off
SOX
TALK: Non-disclosure strikes again
COMMUNITY
ART: Dot matrix
EDITORS' PICKS
In State of the
Art, Angelo Petraglia comes home.
In Arts
News, Huntington schedule changes, plus more events and season
schedules.
In Museums
& Galleries, Watercolors at NESAD, radio in Dudley Square, and
poetry at the ICA
Plan your week:
This
week
Hot
Tix
8 Days
Future
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Weekend
State
of the art
MUSIC
In Cellars by
Starlight, Robin Vaughan talks Clint Conley about his new Consonant
record.
Sean Richardson watches Kiss and the
Misfits kick their marketing machines into high gear.
Josh Kun goes from Herbie
Mann's jazz to Solomon and Socalled.
Clea Simon offers an old Phan's look at the
new Liz.
David Weininger on Zuidam
and Golijov at Tanglewood.
Lloyd Schwartz on Janus
21, Elliott Carter at Monadnock, and Merce Cunningham in Peterbrough.
Live reviews of: Radiohead,
Les
Nubians and Harry Connick
Jr.
Also, short reviews of:
The Cash
Brothers: A BRAND NEW NIGHT
Morcheeba:
PARTS OF THE PROCESS
Glasseater:
EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL WHEN YOU DON’T LOOK DOWN
Medicine:
THE MECHANICAL FORCES OF LOVE
Mogwai:
HAPPY SONGS FOR HAPPY PEOPLE
The
Reverend Charlie Jackson: GOD’S GOT IT: THE LEGENDARY BOOKER AND
JACKSON SINGLES
Pete Rock
& C.L. Smooth: GOOD LIFE: THE BEST OF
...and Roadtripping:
Mike Miliard lays down the soundtrack to Summer.
FILM
Peter Keough finds comic belief in American
Splendor.
In Filmculture,
Gerald Peary goes blue with Blow Job, blue movies and Harvey Pekar.
Also, short reviews of:
STEP INTO
LIQUID
THE
WEATHER UNDERGROUND
O.T. OUR
TOWN
GRIND
OLIGARKH/TYCOON:
A NEW RUSSIAN
THEATER
Carolyn Clay on Off-Season
and Van Gogh in Gloucester.
Steve Vineberg on The
Game and Peter Pan in the Berkshires.
Iris Fanger deems Bosoms
worthy of neglect.
East meets west in Pacific
Overtures .
ART
Christopher
Millis on Medardo Rosso, and George Bellows's 'Tragedies of War.'
BOOKS
Harvey
Pekar parses Richard Cook's biography of jazz label Blue Note.
TELEVISION
Hotdots :
SATURDAY 23, 1:00 a.m. His Girl Friday. The best newspaper
movie ever made - despite its questionable view of journalistic ethics
(fabrication, lawbreaking, intervention). Until 2:30 a.m.
FOOD
Dining
Out : Peking Tom's Longtang Lounge
On
the Cheap : Mass Avenue Restaurant
Noshing
& Sipping : Anchor Small Beer
SPECIALS
Guide to Summer
2003
Summer
Reading
The 6th annual
Best issue 
