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Thursday, February 03, 2011

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The secret life of a Charlestown drug dealer

Hickey flipped for the Feds — and lived to make a movie about it
The next face Shane Mauss saw, though, was unmistakable. It was Johnny Hickey. A fast-talking tattooed Charlestown native with a tough brogue and checkered past, he used to sometimes work security at a comedy club Mauss used to play back in Boston.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  February 05, 2011
 

Arts

Poems, prose, and the New Yorker
Elizabeth Bishop goes pop
Psy at the Majestic, Savion Glover at the Opera House
Getting off the ground and into it
Review: SpeakEasy makes the best of Nine
Less than 10
Review: The Druid’s fine trip to Inishmaan
Cripple kicking
The man in the yellow fur coat
As the Boston Athenaeum stages an Edward Gorey retrospective, his biographer reflects on the artist's lasting legacy
Tim Wu, historian of information empires
Net brutality

Food

Blue Asia
Pan-Asian cuisine with complimentary manga  
Review: Cognac Bistro
An outstanding French take on local goodness

Life

2011 Valentines
Big Fat Whale
Beer bottle football
Hoopleville
Interpreting mass die-offs
 Big Fat Whale
Season affecting decisions
Failure
Self-inspection
Failure

Movies

Love might be awarded at this year's Sundance Festival, but anger holds sway
Hope and fury
Review: Barney's Version
Tale of a sad-sack chick magnet
Review: On the Bowery
The quintessential skid row
Review: The Mechanic
Hackneyed retooling of a 1972 thriller
Review: Undertow
A story of loss
Review: Williams S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Prime footage

Music

Beth Ditto | Beth Ditto EP
Deconstruction (2011)
Dom | Sun Bronzed Greek Gods [Remastered] + more
Astralwerks/Burning Mill (2011)
Eulogies | Tear the Fences Down
Dangerbird Records (2011)
Gang of Four roar back with post-punk fury
Still in uniform

Music Continued

Iron & Wine | We Kiss Each Other Clean
Warner Bros. (2011)
James Blake | James Blake
PID (2011)
Laura Stevenson moves from aggression to affirmation
Yes we Cans
Mean Creek lead a rocking Allston block party
Out: Choose your own adventure
Photos: Cage the Elephant at the Ames Hotel
WFNX Acoustic Session with Cafe the Elephant at the Ames Hotel, January 11, 2011
Photos: Linkin Park at the TD Garden
Linkin Park | TD Garden | February 1, 2011
Photos: The Decemberists at the House of Blues
The Decemberists | House of Blues | January 29, 2011
Photos: Tokyo Police Club and Two Door Cinema Club at the Paradise
Tokyo Police Club + Two Door Cinema Club | Paradise Rock Club | January 19, 2011
Review: Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis
Boston Lyric Opera pulls out the stops
Sweden's Radio Dept. create musical graffiti
Art for pop's sake
The David Wax Museum and Tierney Sutton bridge tradition with the here and now
Border crossings
Walter Sickert leads a band of musical misfits
A Broken Toy story
Winning the future
The week in press releases

News

Fake gays not protesting IFC-distributed rape film
Epic fail dept.
Hitting a nerve
Letters to the Boston editor, February 4, 2011
The GOP's top dog? It's T-Paw, not Mitt.
Pawlenty tops our list
The secret life of a Charlestown drug dealer
Hickey flipped for the Feds — and lived to make a movie about it
What's gotten into Egypt?
Plus, Republicans for same-sex marriage, and trying to kill health-care reform

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Yee-Haw!''
Review: Dead Space 2
The engineer, unmasked
Should sportswriters be allowed to gamble on sports?
Sucker bet

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