NEWS & FEATURES

Camille Dodero explains why micro-radio could be coming to a frequency near you.

City councilor Maura Hennigan revives the school-committee debate. Adam Reilly sheds light on the issue.

While network news flounders toward the future, Dan Kennedy says the present belongs to NPR.

David S. Bernstein says city council elections have become a large-bill race.

In Mondovino, filmmaker and former sommelier Jonathan Nossiter finds culture, corruption, danger, and hope in the bottom of a wineglass. Tamara Wieder talks with him.

In "Out There," Steve Almond gets manly with squash.

Dan Savage on sex.

In the Phoenix editorial: Bernard Law’s re-emergence following the pope’s death shows that the Church has learned nothing. Plus, why DeLay should resign, and Bush’s miserable choice for the UN.

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Plus, this just in:

MUSIC

In Sound Bites, Charlie Chaplin's first feature and the first feature-length comedy ever, Tillie's Punctured Romance set the standard for both, though some claim that Marie Dressler as the farmer's daughter of the title steals the show.

Garbage return with a renewed sense of purpose. Ken Micallef talks with Butch Vig.

Lloyd Schwarts reviews Russell Sherman, Opera Boston’s The Crucible, the Borromeo’s Schoenberg, La Fenice, and American Classics’ Music Box Revues.

Nick Sylvester hears Animal Collective hook up with Vashti Bunyan.

Carly Carioli and Will Spitz referee The Bravery’s battle with the Killers.

Converge bring the noise back home to Allston. J. Bennett listens from the basement.

Ted Drozdowski listens in on Merle Haggard bringing his Bakersfield sound east with Dylan.

Michael Alan Goldberg extols the virtues of Handsome Boy Modeling School

In Cellars By Starlight, Bourbon Princess and Mary Timony

In Giant Steps: Eric Hofbauer's DIY jazz

In Out: Milky Way shindig unleashes the Hound; ZuZu goes iPod

Chris Rucker hears Wes Eisold and Tripp Underwood get booked

Live reviews of: Lewis Black, The Kills, and The Psychadelic Furs

Also, short reviews of:

THEATER

Carolyn Clay spends time in the clink at ART Prison

Mike Albo undermines celeb culture in My Price Point!

DANCE

Marcia B. Siegel reviews Çudamani at Sanders Theatre.

ART

Christopher Millis sees Abelardo Morell move on; plus Mary Lum, Henry Horenstein, and 'Spring Formal'

BOOKS

Nina MacLaughlin says that with How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers quiets down.

TELEVISION

HOTDOTS: SUNDAY 17 9:00 (2) Mystery!: Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage, part one. A new series with Geraldine McEwan stepping in for the late Joan Hickson as Agatha Christie's sharp-eyed senior-sleuth. By Clif Garboden

FOOD