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Jeb Bush, savior of public education

Waiting for Kryptonite
Jeb Bush is a visiting fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 23, 2010
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Edan brings beauty to the big screen

Audio-visionary
Be sure to munch that eighth of mushrooms in your sock drawer before heading to the Brattle Tuesday for the A/V ride of a lifetime.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 24, 2010
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The Next Alcoholic Product To Get Banned In Mass

Meet the future Four Loko
So I'm in my corner bodega yesterday discussing the Four Loko phenomenon with the proprietor (who keeps me up on all the local booze trends), when I saw something even more interesting on a back shelf ...
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 22, 2010
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Skipp Whitman | Skipp City

Self-released (2010)
I was hardly expecting one of the freshest rap discs this year to come out of Brookline.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 22, 2010
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MuckRock City

How two local new-media junkies cut through the red tape and became First-Amendment superstars
Michael Morisy and Mitchell Kotler started their Web site, muckrock.com, as a hobby, and they set out to do something woefully esoteric.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 17, 2010
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Prison Update: It's not getting any better


It's discouraging that conditions may have worsened in state prisons since the Phoenix published "Troubled Over Bridgewater" in September.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 10, 2010
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Pigeon John is about to blow up the spot

Aerial bomber
Pigeon John is a black sheep among black sheep.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 09, 2010
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Nottz | You Need This Music

Raw Koncept
Anyone who's heard a mainstream rap disc in the past decade may have noticed that, beyond the painful radio candy, cats like Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, and even 50 Cent have a few hard-grinding tracks on which they open cans of kick-ass.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 09, 2010
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Breaking bread with mixed nuts at Jon Stewart's rally to restore sanity

Meeting in the middle
When I finally awoke from the effects of a pre-flight spliff the size of a tampon, I was sprawled across Logan Airport's Terminal C with gum in my beard. A man in full Marine Corps sweat apparel was shaking my shoulder.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 03, 2010
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Gold diggers: El Salvador vs. Pacific Rim Mining

Mine. Not yours.
If Chilean miners can maintain vast media attention for two months, then human-rights advocates may be in pole position to lure spotlights toward other underground issues below the border.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 27, 2010
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The new Combat Zone?

The recent murders in Mattapan only hint at the problems that fester on and around Blue Hill Avenue
As such savage acts often do, the quadruple homicide in Mattapan this past month lured platoons of journalists to Boston's communities of color.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 20, 2010
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Boston activists infiltrate bankers' convention

Foreclose on this
On Tuesday, I got a tip to tail a fleet of activists to the Hynes Convention Center while they infiltrated the American Bankers Association's Business Expo and Director's Forum.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 20, 2010
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Review: Jackass 3D

A bittersweet reunion of the Wild Boys
If physical comedy's overriding purpose is to make fools laugh out loud, then the first two Jackass films should be regarded alongside Buster Keaton's slapstick classics.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 20, 2010
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Termanology and Statik take Lawtown national

Mass appeal
At a middle school in Roxbury last week, a teacher friend of mine, hardly expecting a landmark response, asked her students to list their favorite hip-hop artists. One brave young cat passed up Wayne and T-Pain to prop a home-town hero: "Termanology can take all those suckas."
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 19, 2010
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7L and Esoteric | 1212

Fly Casual (2010)
Ten years ago, my guess is that not even 7L and Esoteric could have imagined they'd go on to build one of the most reliable catalogues in indie-rap history.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 19, 2010
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Waiting for Repo Man

The man behind Inside Job shows us just how low Wall Street has sunk
Inside Job , Charles Ferguson's newly released documentary, details with painful precision just how royally Wall Street screwed the planet.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 13, 2010
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Review: Inside Job

The feel-bad movie of the year.
Although Inside Job is destined for Academy acclaim, it seems unlikely that anyone will actually enjoy Charles Ferguson's new documentary.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  February 24, 2011
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Purple Mass Group

Massachusetts has more Independent voters — and candidates — than ever. Will they ever make a difference?
There's a message in how Governor Deval Patrick and Charlie Baker laugh off Tim Cahill's venom in the gubernatorial debates: neither Republicans nor Democrats are sweating their Independent rival in the 2010 election.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 06, 2010

Necro: Horror business

Brooklyn hip-hop artist embraces his bad rap
When you're a Necro fan, tough love is the name of the game.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 05, 2010
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Boston Police Officer resides at house linked to Mattapan quadruple homicide

Crime watch
What you didn't know about 40 Woolson Street.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  September 30, 2010
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Dead end in Dudley

Boston's other big hole
September was a sexy month for the future of Boston's landscape.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  September 29, 2010
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