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Table of contents for week of May 20, 2005

NEWS & FEATURES

Adam Reilly reports on the Massachusetts Democratic Party's lost weekend.

Dan Kennedy says Newsweek's screw-up is a gift to right-wingers looking to blame the media for Bush's foreign-policy failures.

Matthew Shaer delves into the world of underground urban-cycling culture in Boston.

In "Out There," Steve Almond has the ultimate plan for showing support to our troops.

Dan Savage on sex.

In the Phoenix editorial: The White House blames Newsweek’s erroneous reporting for anti-American violence. Next time, it won’t be so lucky.

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Plus, this just in:

  • DEATH PENALTY Ross goes quietly
  • READING ROOM Papercut ’Zine Library opens
  • INDY ROCKS! A new way to discover new music
  • PLUTOCRACY WATCH Getting carded? Tell the US Senate.
  • DIRTY HANDS Carmen vs. Osama
  • SPOOKY BOX Democracy ex machina

    EDITORS' PICKS

    In Performance, The Sleeping Beauty’s final weekend, and Pollyana Ribeiro’s farewell

    In Theater, Robert Reich and John Buffalo Mailer mix playwriting and politics

    In Galleries and Museums, Quilts at the MFA, and Eugene Tan's performing garments at the Berwick

    In Classical, BMOP salutes Toru Takemitsu, and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson reprises Bach cantatas with Emmanuel Music

  • Hot Tix
  • 8 Days
  • Future Events
  • MUSIC

    Nick Sylvester says you can't please a Weezer fan - especially when it comes to the band's new album.

    Eliot Wilder hits the road for Aimee Mann's new song cycle, A Forgotten Arm

    Adam Bregman talks with Billy Idol about his hits, his misses, and his new album

    Lloyd Schwartz takes in the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Cantata Singers, and Intermezzo

    In Giant Steps, Jon Garelick examines the Billie Holiday reissue industry and a new biography

    Big Business explain to Kurt B. Reighly why they're a heavy band women can like

    In Cellars By Starlight: Brett Milano talks with local garage rockers the Charms about their heady year

    In Out: The Sweet Leaf Fest; plus Spookie Daly Pride get ug-uh-ly.

    Chris Rucker hears The Transplants ride a Westbound Train, Mary Timony's Deftones connection, and more

    And in Roadtripping, Gwen Stefani at the KISS FM concert, plus Bruce Springsteen and more

    Live reviews of: The Crystal Method, The Mars Volta, and Nine Inch Nails

    Also, short reviews of:

  • Doves SOME CITIES
  • Andrea Echeverri ANDREA ECHEVERRI
  • Heavy Trash HEAVY TRASH
  • Pink Martini HANG ON LITTLE TOMATO
  • The Ramones END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES
  • Thunderbirds Are Now! JUSTAMUSTACHE

    MOVIES

    Peter Keough reviews Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

    Chris Fujiwara reports on Rois et reine

    Peter Keough checks out Busby Berkeley's retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive.

    Also, short reviews of:

  • KICKING & SCREAMING
  • LAYER CAKE
  • MAD HOT BALLROOM
  • MUJAAN
  • LA NIÑA SANTA/THE HOLY GIRL
  • OUR FATHERS
  • O OUTRO LADO DA RUA/THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET
  • STUPEUR ET TREMBLEMENTS/FEAR AND TREMBLING
  • UNLEASHED
  • THEATER

    Carolyn Clay reviews the Actors' Shakespeare Project's Julius Caesar and the Merrimack Repertory Theatre production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming,

    DANCE

    Marcia B. Siegel reports on the Boston Conservatory's tribute to Julie Ince Thompson.

    BOOKS

    Amy Finch reviews Martha Stout's The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us.

    TELEVISION

    HOTDOTS: TUESDAY 24: 8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Sydney City Guide. Trekker Justine Shapiro tours the Gateway to Australia by taking in the sights at its earliest settlement, its trendiest beaches, and its opulent Opera House. By Clif Garboden

    FOOD

  • Dining Out Shanghai Gate
  • On the Cheap Petsi Pies
  • Hot Plate: Neptune Oyster’s sardines
  • Taste Buds: Upcoming local dining events

    SPECIALS

  • Digital Photography Guide
  • The Best 2004
  • Liquid - Fall 2004
  • Fall Preview
  • Education Section 2005