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							 Shepard Fairey spins at Obey Experiment REDUX at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston 
							
							 
						
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							 Photos from Passion Pit's performance at the  Boston Phoenix  and WFNX's annual Best Music Poll Concert on August 1, 2009 at Boston's City Hall Plaza. 
							
							 
						
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							  The biggest story in sports media last week was the discovery of surreptitiously shot nude-video footage of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, whose comeliness has made her a favorite — and sometimes a fetish — of the online sports commentariat.  
							
							 
						
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							 Biggest mosh pit of Best Music Poll 2009? That's easy: the Gaslight Anthem's set, which had worried punks milling around City Hall four hours before showtime, like they were gonna miss a parole hearing.  
							
							 
						
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							 Are Cobra Starship's gleeful Day-Glo appropriations and their unbridled enthusiasm really indications of a disparity between intention and expression? Or is their crime simply the meta-mania of their fusion of '80s retro kitsch and '00s celebrity worship? Really, it's neither. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							   Merce Cunningham's death on July 26 wasn't unexpected. He'd been in frail health since this past winter. He was in a wheelchair for his 90th-birthday celebration in April at Brooklyn Academy of Music. In June, the Cunningham Foundation announced plans for the future of the company and the repertory after his death.   
							
							 
						
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							  The biggest story in sports media last week was the discovery of surreptitiously shot nude-video footage of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, whose comeliness has made her a favorite — and sometimes a fetish — of the online sports commentariat.  
							
							 
						
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							   The Bang Group's performance at Concord Academy Thursday night wrapped the audience in rings of intimacy and surprise. Choreographer/director David Parker, acting as MC, paid loving tribute to Summer Stages Dance, where he and the company have appeared and taught for 10 years.   
							
							 
						
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							  Teranga is Boston's first serious Senegalese restaurant, but belongs more in the upscale-import category with the Helmand, Lala Rokh, and Orinoco than with typical immigrant restaurants. It's a pleasant and beautifully decorated bistro where diners mingle and have a good time.  
							
							 
						
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							   We want what everyone wants — happiness and the personal freedoms our forefathers lived and died for.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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