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RCA/Legacy (2009) There's a plethora of Elvis Presley albums on the market, most of them compilations and box sets, each focusing on certain hits, eras, and/or styles.
Drama
Chris Rock
Good
Rhino (2009) Like most Big Star fans, author Robert Gordon overheats a little in the biographical essay that accompanies this handsome four-disc box set.
Horror
The Eye
Alex Proyas
Jamie Bell
Gift books to savor Trying to reach as broad a range of tastes and pocketbooks as possible, we this year scavenged everything from the front pages of the Onion to R. Crumb's genesis, to valedictory Updike. Stuff to read, stuff to look at, glossy pages and matte. Remember: be careful not to ...
Action
Kevin Spacey
Andy Garcia
Carol Reed
Kurt Wimmer
Hank Azaria
Chris Rock
Passion Pit, Phoenix, and Spoon, live at the Orpheum Theatre, December 4, 2009 A quick, mildly sycophantic shout-out to the "powers that be" here in Phoenix -Land: This year's Miracle on Tremont Street was nothing short of a wicked pissah powerhouse bill. The grand old Orpheum creaked under ...
Other
Chris Rock
Jackie or Marilyn, Pete or Roger — they are what they eat. so, who are you? So you've got a party coming up, a gift due, or a difficult-to-please significant other. So you've got a party coming up, a gift due, or a difficult-to-please significant other. How can you tell what to serve or ...
Other
Stereo equipment is so passé. This year's unnecessarily awesome gadgets will stir coffee and turn T-shirts into guitars. "Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools." So wrote Henry David Thoreau, a long time ago, in Walden . "Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools." So wrote ...
Other
Henry Cavill
Whiskey drinks for people who don’t like whiskey. Yet. If Mad Men has taught us anything, it's that we shouldn't go to a 1960s advertising executive for health advice.
Green Street Grill's Emily Stanley serves up a Maple Leaf If Mad Men has taught us anything, it's that we ...
Drama
Don Cheadle
John Wayne
Emma Thompson
Dylan Baker
Reissued and remastered CDs give classic releases a fresh face Most music fans can probably be forgiven, at this point, for being doubting Thomases at the alleged demise of the major-label music industry. Bauhaus Most music fans can probably be forgiven, at this point, for being ...
Drama
Stones
The Box
Marc Lawrence
Andy Garcia
Jamie Bell
Eddie Murphy
Boston Music Awards 2009, live from the Liberty Hotel, December 2, 2009 Photos of Will Dailey, Mean Creek, Dear Leader, Lisa Bello, Bad Rabbits, and more from the Boston Music Awards. | Catherine Lee Will Dailey | Boston Music Awards | Liberty Hotel | December 2, 2009 RECAP/VIDEO: The ...
Other
Live at WFNX's Miracle on Tremont show on December 4, 2009 Photos of Passion Pit, Phoenix, and Spoon performing at WFNX's annual Miracle on Tremont Street Photo: Catherine Lee Passion Pit | Miracle on Tremont Street at Orpheum Theatre | December 4. 2009 Read more
Other
Chris Rock
A fantastically long list of Turkish delights Even without enormous evidence, the Nadeau family has decided that "Turkish food never lets you down." Louise likes to grab lunch downtown at Boston Kebab House; Maurice prefers Allston's Saray; and Stephanie and her school friends enjoy ...
Other
A solid Italian-American trattoria with dynamite pizza Friends are always asking me for my latest cheap-eats "discovery." But amid a million food blogs, 24/7 food television, and amateur-review Web sites like Chowhound and Yelp, I'm rarely the first to sing a good restaurant's praises. ...
Other
Letters to the Boston editor, December 4, 2009 Not so fast, Mike! Mike Miliard quotes Brian Skerry on ocean bottom trawling: “If we did that on land — to catch a single deer you go through the forest and kill all the raccoons and squirrels and skunks and everything that lives there — ...
Other
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Roman Polanski
Oceans
A former Jail Blazer returns to action. Plus, hugging it out at Portland State. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Couldn’t you feel that void, that emptiness resulting from the failure of former LA Clipper and Portland Trail Blazer Ruben Patterson to get arrested for anything at all recently? ...
Comedy
College
Ruben Fleischer
Todd Phillips
Marc Lawrence
One (2009) Since Boy Meets World dropped into my radar a month ago, I’ve discovered how much magic stretches clean across the tracklist, and I was planning to include it on my year-end list. Yet more immediate praise is due.
Comedy
Wayne'S World
Fantasy (2009) It’s astonishing to think that Rickie Lee Jones would turn out an album this organic and free of cynicism 30 years after her debut with the star-making, retro-hipster hit “Chuck E.’s in Love.” Particularly since her songwriting has always been so acutely self-aware.
