NEWS & FEATURES

Ninety-four-year-old Doris Haddock, a/k/a Granny D, is running for US Senate in New Hampshire, but, says Adam Reilly, it's not clear exactly why.

The government is trying to force numerous reporters to either give up their sources or go to jail, but it's obvious what any journalist who wants to stay in the field would do in that situation, says Dan Kennedy. So what is the government trying to accomplish?

Ian Donnis shows how buying Fair Exchange coffee can change the lives of millions of impoverished coffee growers, one cup of joe at a time.

Michael Bronski explains how one of the "greatest generation's" finest gifts to American culture was a new appreciation of the male form: the disrobed Everyman.

Tony Mendoza bought his first camera when he was 11. More than 50 years and wide acclaim later, the Cuba native's autobiographical "Stories" exhibition is opening in Provincetown. Eileen Kennedy introduces you to him.

Sally Cragin talks with New Yorker photographer Robert Polidori, who captures Cuba, a place of paradoxes, in his work.

In "Out There," Alan Olifson has one year left in the coveted 18-to-34-year-old demographic. What happens then?

In "Urban Buy," Kerry Lynch sees wine get square.

In the Phoenix editorial, we lament that, as American deaths near the 1000 mark in Iraq, the horror is covered up with obfuscation, intimidation, and lies.

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Plus, this just in:

MUSIC

Sean Richardson talks politics with Bad Religion and Less Than Jake.

Brett Milano spends two nights with Phish and one with Rush.

Ted Drozdowski finds bluegrass and more at the Cantab.

Michael Alan Goldberg the Burning Brides take no prisoners.

Banning Eyre finds that the local Calabash Music site offers international downloads.

Jon Garelick says the Newport Jazz Fest celebrated its 50th with a hurricane of good music.

Also, short reviews of:

THEATER

Steve Vineberg sees Timon, Cymbeline, and King John in Stratford.

Carolyn Clay says Butter flies in Gloucester.

Sally Cragin reviews the Publick Theatre's Merchant of Venice.

ART

Christopher Millis says the Sackler Museum's Calderwood Collection opens the door to Islam.

BOOKS

Jon Garelick reads Nicholson Baker going after Bush.

TELEVISION

HOTDOTS: SATURDAY 21, Midnight (2) Last Holiday (movie). To make up for all the fundraising schlock it's been force-feeding viewers, 'GBH is filling the unprofitable hours with 'Public Domain Film' - which means it's not paying big royalties for this stuff. By Clif Garboden

FOOD

SPECIALS