NEWS & FEATURES

A review by the Phoenix suggests that the jury made a mistake when it convicted Abdul Raheem. David S. Bernstein examines the evidence.

Media irresponsibility could place Michael Schiavo’s life in danger for many years to come. Dan Kennedy explains.

Adam Reilly examines Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey’s dilemma: Serve Mitt Romney, or serve herself?

Ruth Tobias finds a few courses at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts that dish up a smorgasbord of real-world benefits.

Author David Prerau illuminates daylight saving time. Tamara Wieder speaks with the author of Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time.

In "Out There," Sarah Green is unprepared for the business of vaginoplasty.

In "Urban Buy," Nina Schwartz does not wear short shorts.

Dan Savage on sex.

In the Phoenix editorial: Artists deserve to be paid — but the entertainment industry’s bid to outlaw innovation is wrong-headed and doomed to fail.

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Plus, this just in:

MUSIC

In Sound Bites, Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer, a pair of bratty art mavens with a vision of pop as performance art, convened a gallery/salon to manufacture costumes, designs, and concepts for their forthcoming Odyssey.

Franklin Soults meets England's M.I.A. and the rappers of Brazil and Senegal

Matt Ashare is Reading between the lines of Beck's latest Guero

Ted Drozdowski hears Black and Mirman go for the laughs

Petra Haden sings The Who Sell Out. Mac Randall listens.

Jonathan Perry appreciates Eric Matthews’s well composed pop

Something for Rockets try not to get ahead of themselves. Jeff Miller tunes in.

Lloyd Schwartz hears James Levine lead two BSO premieres; Teatro Lirico’s cool (and hot) Carmen

In Cellars By Starlight, The courts have their say on Mark Sandman's recorded legacy

In Out: Japanese girls, Chinese boys, and pre-Rumble Savants

Chris Rucker hears The Glow and The Konks, plus news on Converge, Some Girls, Octave Museum, and more

Live reviews of: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, RICK BARTON AND THE SHADOW BLASTERS, and THE PAT METHENY GROUP

Also, short reviews of:

THEATER

Liza Weisstuch reviews Culture Clash in AmeriCCa at the Virginia Wimberly Theatre.

Steve Vineberg watches the ASP take on the Bard's 'problem comedy'.

Carolyn Clay says Living Out presents its own culture clash.

DANCE

Marcia B. Siegel reviews Boston Ballet's 'Falling Angels'; Battleworks at Zero Arrow Theatre.

BOOKS

Phoenix Literary Supplement

J.L. Johnson does war by the book.

Ricco Villanueva Siasoco finds hilarious fiction in a hyperreal world.

William Corbett sees Poetry get rich during National Poetry Month

Maureen N. McLane reviews Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951–1991

TELEVISION

HOTDOTS: TUESDAY 5 8:00 (2) Nova: The Great Escape. The true story behind the 1963 Steve McQueen movie of the same name reunites the WW2 Allied airpeople who planned an elaborate escape from Stalag Luft III, at Sagan in present-day Poland. By Clif Garboden

FOOD