NEWS & FEATURES

Mike Miliard spends time in Fort Myers with the Red Sox, lazin’ on Elysian fields.

After a brief stint as a slick, celebrity-driven version of the Nation, the pot-appreciation magazine High Times is back to its roots — and readers are inhaling deeply. Camille Dodero reports.

Adam Reilly explains how the Latter-day Saints could make Mitt Romney president.

Dierdre Fulton sees gay marriage gaining ground with three votes added to the pro-gay-marriage column.

Blind, award-winning musician and photographer Henry Butler accepts no limitations. Tamara Wieder speaks with him.

In "Out There," Caitlin Shetterly struggles with her vehicular identity.

In "Urban Buy," Naz Sioshansi drapes herself in this season's new trend.

Dan Savage on sex.

In the Phoenix editorial: In Suffolk County, murder cases take months — even years — to come to trial

Special Election Coverage Linda Dorcena Forry - A landslide vote carries a ‘New Boston’ candidate into Finneran’s former seat Stacey Monahan - Old-school union backing wasn’t enough to propel her to a win in 2005 Michael Moran - Despite the coming challenge of the general election, he’s finally on his way to Beacon Hill Tim Schofield - Even in defeat, the runner-up scored a win by helping his district reaffirm its progressive roots

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

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MUSIC

In Sound Bites, Perhaps the only thing more terrifying than being hung out to dry by one's malfunctioning karaoke track on national television is the prospect of having to take the blasted thing on tour for a couple of months.

50 Cent and the Game diss and tell. Nick Sylvester gets in the middle.

Lloyd Schwartz on the BSO’s Fliegende Holländer, the Cantata Singers’ St. John Passion, and Mark Morris’s new musicians.

Camille Dodero hears the Picaresque pop of Colin Meloy’s Decemberists.

Matt Ashare talks with the Louisville trio Slint who are now on a reunion tour.

Ted Drozdowski says Solomon Burke and Hubert Sumlin can still roar.

In Cellars By Starlight, The Dresden Dolls' Dresden debut.

In Giant Steps: David Caruso and the Fringe fanatics

In Out: Interpol in the small hours; Broken River Prophet at T.T.’s

Chris Rucker hears Court springs Sandbox; Cave In rejoin Hydrahead; Averi steal your girlfriend.

Live reviews of: Interpol, DJ Spooky, and Tim Berne

Also, short reviews of:

THEATER

Carolyn Clay says Cupid rules Neil Bartlett’s Dido.

DANCE

Marcia B. Siegel sees cheeky toes at the Shubert.

ART

Christopher Millis sees understated drama in photographs by Peter Kayafas and Tama Hochbaum.

TELEVISION

HOTDOTS: TUESDAY 22 8:00 (2) Nova: Dirty Bomb. The show that dares to ask the question "How much worse is a dirty bomb than a clean bomb?" And they actually simulate dirty-bomb attacks in the DC subway system and in London's Trafalgar Square. By Clif Garboden

FOOD