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Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Review: A Dangerous Method

Cronenberg's dramatization of the rise of psychoanalysis
Perhaps the three characters in David Cronenberg's handsome, eloquent dramatization of the birth and near demise of psychoanalysis represent the parts of the psyche that the movement would eventually hypothesize.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  December 20, 2011
 

Arts

A whirlwind year of dance
From Fela! to Merce
Boston arts institutions flexed their muscles in 2011
Boom town!
Dueling stages
When it came to home teams vs. visitors, audiences were the winners

Food

2011: The year in cheap eats
Twelve months of terrific budget-priced dining
Celebrating 2011 in dining, all over the place
The year in restaurants

Life

A Child Bride's Garden of Verse
The Year in Courtney Stodden Tweets
A quagmire to remember
Big Fat Whale
Facebook party pics
Failure

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Life

The Fourth Wise Man
Hoopleville

Movies

Interview: Michel Hazanavicius talks about The Artist
Silence is golden
Review: A Dangerous Method
Cronenberg's dramatization of the rise of psychoanalysis
Review: The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius's flashback to '20s-era Hollywood
Review: The Adventures of Tintin
Spielberg's second-rate animated Indiana Jones
Review: War Horse
A veritable, old-fashioned story
Review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Worthy of an IMAX screen
Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Flamboyantly grisly sex crimes
Review: We Bought A Zoo
Cameron Crowe's film version of Benjamin Mee's memoir
The best films of 2011 are not the ballyhooed
Also-rans

Music

10 Boston jazz acts that blew through the roof in 2011
Mystics and monsters
2011 goes pop
The music climate is as frigid as the business
2011: A very mixed year for classical music in Boston
Valedictions and salutations
Dubstep's party crashes the mainstream
Wobble to the top
Give Up the Ghost roar back for a timely reunion
Growing up hardcore
Indie labels fill the majors' void in 2011
DIY or die
Interview: Violent J on the FBI, Odd Future, and why he pulls more hotties than we do
The year in Juggalos
ON SPOTIFY: Guest lists 2011: Phoenix critics weigh in on the year in music
Listen to the jams, albums, and mixes that got our writers through 2011
PTSOTL names the shittiest songs of 2011
Kill your radio
The Big Hurt: Weighing 2011 against decades past
The year in context
The year in Boston rock
A scene comes together in 2011
The year 'new battling' took over Boston
Plan of attack

News

A longing look at 2011's lost liberties
Shit that got banned
Boenher's shame: The putrid politics of Republican negativity.
Or, the GOP’s Payroll-Tax screw-up explained
Letter to an Old Contrarian
Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
QUIZ: Candidate or Criminal?
Telling politicians from those in the pen isn't easy — just take their words for it
The Phoenix's Greatest Hits of 2011
Self-Aggrandizement Dept.

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Their Hearts Grew Three Sizes That Day''
A veritable Who's Whoville.
Sexiest video game studs of 2011
If only they were real
Video games of 2011: Yakuza 4 is the tops
The gang's all here

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