Table of contents for week of June 24, 2005
  
NEWS & FEATURES
 Deirdre Fulton says there are signs that the party of Teddy Roosevelt - our first conservationist president - may be reviving its care for the environment, and wonders whether or not the Bushoids will listen.
 David S. Bernstein finds out what happens when cops botch evidence in a murder trial.
 Harvey A. Silverglate explains that a careful reading of the Tom Finneran trial transcript suggests US Attorney Michael Sullivan will have a hard time getting a conviction from 12 impartial jurors.
 Adam Reilly wonders whether Bishop Gilbert Thompson is undercutting Deval Patrick.
 Mike Miliard talks with Speed, the 85-year-old man who makes the best dogs in town.
 Dan Savage on sex.
 In the Phoenix editorial: Judd Gregg and John Sununu go MIA on an anti-lynching measure. Plus, Romney’s politicized health plan, and demonizing Durbin.
   
  
 Letters to the editor 
Moon Signs 
Plus, this just in: 
 MICHAEL POTVIN
Art mechanic supreme
RAISING THE BAR
Goodbye, Plough; hello, Linwood
BUSTING OUT
Show us your teats
GUN CONTROL
Re-arming DC: Senators want to pack heat in capital
FISH OUT OF WATER
Howie Carr’s bleeding heart
QUOTES + NUMBERS
Cooler than you
EDITORS' PICKS 
In Theater, Rough & Tumble tackles race
 In Galleries and Museums, 'ICA artist-in-residence Jerry Beck builds an ark in Charlestown
 In Classical, Highlights from this year's Tanglewood schedule
 Free Stuff
Hot Tix
8 Days
Future Events
MUSIC 
Franklin Soults weighs in on the White Stripes' latest album, Get Behind Me Satan.
 Ted Drozdowski talks with Billy Corgan about his solo debut.
 Kurt B. Reighley listens to the circus rock of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  
Web exclusives: Mikael Wood talks with E about the Eels' new double album, and Mac Randall chats with Tracy Bonham about her return to Boston.
 In Cellars By Starlight: Jonathan Perry checks in with Hi-N-Dry labelmates Session Americana, the Heygoods, and the Coots
 In Giant Steps: Jon Garelick checks out new albums from Joshua Redman and Me'Shell NdegéOcello
 In Out: Mad Man Films, Badman, and Night Rally
 Chris Rucker with news and notes on Pixies, Clinton Sparks, Hellfest, and more
 In Download: Hockey Night, The Oranges Band, and more
 Live reviews of: 
 Foo Fighters and Heavy Trash & the Campbell Brothers
 
 Also, short reviews of:
 Erin McKeown
WE WILL BECOME LIKE BIRDS
Meat Beat Manifesto
AT THE CENTER
Medications
YOUR FAVORITE PEOPLE ALL IN ONE PLACE
Van Morrison
MAGIC TIME
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops
SADIE MAE
MOVIES 
Brett Michel weighs in on the latest Merchant Ivory film, Heights.
 Gerald Peary attends the Newport Film Festival.
  Also, short reviews of: 
 
 APRÈS VOUS . . .
BEWITCHED
ÉCRIVAIN D’O/WRITER OF O
HERBIE: FULLY LOADED
O HOMEM QUE COPIAVA/THE MAN WHO COPIED
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
DER NEUNTE TAG/THE NINTH DAY
   
 
THEATER 
Carolyn Clay reviews Tony McLean's A Grand Night for Singing.
 Jeffrey Gantz sees Johann Mattheson’s never-performed 1710 opera Boris Goudenow.
 
DANCE 
Marcia B. Siegel checks out Bournonville's Abdallah in Copenhagen.
 
 
BOOKS 
Robin Vaughan reads Heather King's Parched.
 
TELEVISION 
Joyce Millman reviews the new HBO/BBC film The Girl in the Café
 HOTDOTS: MONDAY 27 9:00 [2] THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | THE FIGHT | An excellent background yarn about the 1938 heavyweight bout between African-American Joe Lewis and German superman Max Schmeling.
By Clif Garboden 
FOOD 
Dining Out Victoria's Diner
On the Cheap Le Chandelier Restaurant
Hot Plate: Petit Robert Bistro’s Gâteau Petit Robert
Taste Buds: Upcoming local dining events
SPECIALS 
Guide To Summer
Best Music Poll 2005
Digital Photography Guide
The Best 2004
Education Section 2005
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