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Thursday, September 22, 2011

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The night before Nevermind

Bullet LaVolta's drummer on opening for Nirvana in Boston on September 23, 1991
It was no accident that, the night before Nevermind came out -- September 23, 1991 -- Nirvana chose to play Boston.

By: TODD A. PHILIPS | September 22, 2011

Arts

Brustein takes another look at Will's world
Bardic fun

Photos: Kostas Seremetis's ''Ready…Steady…Go!'' at the Fourth Wall Project
Fourth Wall Project | September 10–October 23, 2011

Photos: Scenes from the opening of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art
From the grand opening of the Museum of Fine Arts's new wing

The hipster Harry Potter
Colin Meloy’s fake children’s book isn’t for children at all

The MFA pulls out the stops for contemporary art with the Linde Family Wing
Playing catch-up

Their cheating hearts
Literary Lites

Underground no more, Kostas Seremetis comes home
He's now worthy

Young Adulteration
Kid lit, cultural literacy, and the rise of books that are fun to read

Food

A mushroom of one's own
The woods around Boston are full of fantastic fungi — if you just know where to look

Review: The Field Pub
'Tis the season for warming up with pub grub

Speed eating match
Hoopleville

Life

Photos: Freedom Rally 2011 at Boston Common
Mass Cann/NORML's annual Freedom Rally | September 17, 2011

Practice makes perfect
Failure

Slideshow: A year of ''Meet the Mayor''
Term limits? Those are for losers. Here are the 12 Foursquare mayors who hung onto their turf

The Anti-Vax Vaccine
Big Fat Whale

Movies

Interview: Jonah Hill straightens up
Money man

Review: Killer Elite
Narrative confusion

Review: A Dolphin Tale
Not much of a splash

Review: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Exhilarating action

Review: Happy, Happy
A familiar tale of adultery

Review: Manhattan Short Film Festival
Running the gamut

Review: Moneyball
The game's plays are numbered

Review: My Afternoons with Margueritte
Twisting the "lonely child, clean old man" formula

Review: Straw Dogs
Rod Lurie's new version of the Peckinpah classic

Music

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Hysterical
Red General Catalog (2011)

Coming clean with Girls of San Francisco
Cult of personality

Das Racist | Relax
Greedhead (2011)

Dissecting the enveloping sound of Elbow
Full bodied

Dum Dum Girls | Only In Dreams
Sub Pop (2011)

Evidence | Cats & Dogs
Rhymesayers (2011)

Guerilla Opera's Loose, Wet, Perforated
Huh?

Kasabian | Velociraptor!
RCA/Columbia (2011)

Out: If a hook falls in a forest, does it make a melody?
From Cambridge to Camden town

Photos: Tree play the 22nd Annual Freedom Rally
Boston Common | September 17, 2011

The Big Hurt: The Game outs 50 Cent, Gucci Mane goes to the slam; plus, Julian Lennon's new titles, and more
Music news in brief

The Horrors change more than their hair
Makeover

The improbable rise of We Are Augustines
Comfort music

The Mekons | Ancient & Modern
Bloodshot (2011)

The night before Nevermind
Bullet LaVolta's drummer on opening for Nirvana in Boston on September 23, 1991

The timely pop return of Emergency Music
So long to the subtle

Twin Sister | In Heaven
Domino (2011)

News

A jolly good biomass mess
Letters to the Boston editors, September 23, 2011

A Statesman Too Late?
John Kerry heads to work on the debt ‘super committee’ with his usual earnestness and high hopes — despite the circus that surrounds him

Obama’s jobs plan is a step in the right direction
Notes on class warfare

Uncovering the sins of Joe McGinniss
Don't quote me: Vision quest

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Juggler's Blues''
So much can go wrong

Is Boardwalk Empire about to enter its golden age?
Easy livin'

Taking gaming to the masses
Laser Orgy