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7/13/12
Moonrise Kingdom: They Hype Surpasses the Product
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MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012) Directed by Wes Anderson Focus Films, PG-13, 94 mins. * * 1/2 Everyone keeps waiting f...
7/11/12
New Bedford Folk Festival Ranks Among the Best
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Newport… Winnipeg… Big Muddy… Old Songs…. Fine folk music festivals each (though Newport is way too pricey), but ask me to list my favorite...
7/9/12
MLB Predictions at All-Star Break
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July 10 is that annual meaningless event known as the All-Star Game, this year appropriately played in a meaningless place: K...
7/6/12
A Lazy Worker is a Productive Worker
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Could this be the seminal economic text of our time? In 1880, Paul Lafargue wrote a 40-page pamphlet that defended the “right to be ...
7/4/12
Boy an Offbeat (and uneven) Delight
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BOY (2010) Directed by Taika Waititi New Zealand Film Commission, 88 minutes, in Maori and English * * * The lovable ...
7/2/12
Leave It to Beavers
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Building better ecosystems--one beaver at a time! I live in an expanding western Massachusetts town that’s short on availabl...
6/29/12
Okay for Now: A Teen Novel, or Just a Good Book?
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Okay for Now. Gary Schmidt New York: Clarion Books, 2011. * * * * Joe Pepitone, Aaron Copeland, and James Audubon are three nam...
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