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A scene from the Phantom Limb Comany's "69 South: The Shackleton Project','' about the famous British expedition to Antarctica led by Ernest Shackleton. The performance includes puppets, dance, special effects, including projections, and music and will be at the...
January 27, 2012 6:09 pm
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In the swing of things
Sculpture by Kim Bernard in her "Stuff Moves"" show at Boston Sculptors Gallery Feb. 8-March 11. It's an exhibition of her most kinetic work, in which, she says, "the hard and fast science of physics collides wirh sublime spirituality,...
January 27, 2012 4:47 pm
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Delahunt sees the light
Photo by LYDIA WHITCOMB William Delahunt, as the congressman representing Boston's South Shore, Cape Cod and the Islands, spent years fighting the Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound at the behest of the Kennedy family, who don't want...
January 26, 2012 5:50 pm
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Church-state in Naugatuck
Photo by THOMAS HOOK I ran this picture on my other blog last month, but the recent squabble over a prayer banner in a Cranston public school reminded me of this use of a public park and Civil War...
January 26, 2012 5:05 pm
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Keith C. Burris: At UConn, take on the NCAA
By KEITH C. BURRIS MANCHESTER, Conn. Keith C. Burris is editorial-page editor of the Journal Inquirer, in Manchester, Conn. Which is more important: a life or power? What should matter more: the hopes and dreams of a young man...
January 26, 2012 9:08 am
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Take a break!
"Untitled,'' by photographer Jerry Uelsmann (1992), at the Robert Klein Gallery, Boston....
January 25, 2012 5:48 pm
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Lose it at home!
"Untitled #64,'' by Laura Letinsky, at Carroll and Sons gallery, in Boston. xxx Kudos to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick for conservatively NOT including any projected casino revenue in his next budget proposal, even as the state decides to get...
January 25, 2012 5:24 pm
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Newport melodrama
The battle continues in Newport over Maya Lin and Queen Anne Square!...
January 24, 2012 6:35 pm
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Stuart Little menaces your house!
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January 24, 2012 6:10 pm
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Finding the right face
A painting from George Herman, in his "Mans and Other'' show at the Albright Art Gallery, in Concord, Mass....
January 24, 2012 5:18 pm
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Calling it what it is
"Indescribable,'' sculpture by Marjorie Kaye, at the ArtSpace-Maynard Gallery, in Maynard, Mass, Indeed....
January 24, 2012 5:05 pm
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Peter Ubertaccio: Failure of the State of the Union speech
Peter Ubertaccio is chairman of the department of political science and director of the Joseph Martin Institute for Law & Society at Stonehill College, in Easton, Mass. EASTON, Mass. Thomas Jefferson ended the practice of giving the State of...
January 23, 2012 4:39 pm
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Downward mobility
Photo by LYDIA WHITCOMB The trouble with falling on the ice after a certain age is that you remain with rigid muscles for three or four months of the year and find yourself always looking down....
January 23, 2012 4:33 pm
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James L. Jones: Cruise-ship doctor's questions
James L. Jones, M.D., practiced emergency medicine for more than 30 years. He currently serves as senior physician for a major cruise line based in in Miami. MIAMI The Costa Concordia tragedy shows us part of the human experience...
January 23, 2012 9:22 am
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Solitary snowbound
"Untitled Interior (Blizzard),'' 2005, Digital C print, by SARAH MALAKOFF. Cozy and chilly (as in eerie) at the same time. Who is in that house? ....
January 20, 2012 6:57 pm
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Stone and smell
"The Last Valley -- Paradise Rocks'' by Sue McNally, at the Paint Now show at T.F. Green Airport, in Rhode Island. What a lovely evocation of the geological and biological complexity of the New England coast. You can almost...
January 20, 2012 6:38 pm
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Face of the future
From "Plastic Visions,'' a show by Ed Friedman, at Galatea Fine Art, Boston Feb. 1-26. This is what we will look like in a few years if we spend more time on cell phones....
January 20, 2012 6:13 pm
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Organic murals
Two expanding New England traditions -- murals, inside and out, and locavore stores and restaurants -- come together at the Fertile Underground grocery co-op in Providence. Next stop: Farms on tops of mill buildings to supply these outlets, like...
January 19, 2012 5:08 pm
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A. Ralph Barlow: Roger Williams and the social compact
Rev. A. Ralph Barlow is pastor emeritus of Beneficent Congregational Church, UCC, "Round Top" in downtown Providence. In recent days in Rhode Island there has been a tangled, intensely controversial bundle of threads hanging over the decision by Federal...
January 19, 2012 4:40 pm
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