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Boston Rap's Class of 2010

These 10 homegrown hip-hop artists are ready to graduate to the big time
With Sam Adams burning up the iTunes charts and Slaine set to co-star in Ben Affleck’s upcoming Charlestown heist flick, The Town , major-label poachers may well be looking toward Boston for the next up-and-gunning rap talents.
By: ERIN BALDASSARI  |  September 19, 2010
 

Arts

Art in the air conditioning
Local museums keep you cool — and the art's pretty good, too
Beyond belief
Three literary fantasies for summer — including a true one
Book bag for the dog days
Load up your Goodman, Gordimer, Franzen, Moody, and more
Girls talk
Sloane Crosley and Emily Gould tell all
Slideshow: Tavares Strachan's ''Orthostatic Tolerance'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
Tavares Strachan at the MIT List Visual Arts Center | Through July 11

Food

Lee's Place Burgers
A great hamburger stands out against millions of awful ones
Review: Nico
An average North End destination with a sweet ending

Life

Bang Ganger
The explosive lives of pyrotechnical professionals
Freaks, Geeks, and Faux Bono
Boston-area subcultures keep the Bay State comfortably kooky this summer
Grave Spotting
Spooky? A bit, but Massachusetts's cemeteries are also the bucolic, final resting places of many great American writers.
High-school nicknames
Failure
New Summer Series
Big Fat Whale
Photos: Boston Pride Parade 2010
Boston Pride 2010 Parade | Tremont Street to City Hall | June 12, 2010
Teach the controversy
Idiot Box
This is your summer . . . on drugs
Nine ways to take the high way out of Dullsville
This one's for the dads
Hoopleville
Trail of jeers
Forget Paul Revere. This summer, treat yourself to a tour of Boston's worst in political corruption.

Movies

Cinema paradisos
As Hollywood's summer fare goes cold, local film festivals heat up
Days of future past
'SF-1970' at the Harvard Film Archive
Review: Fresh
Really grows on you
Review: Stonewall Uprising
Well-meaning but sedate look at the '60s gay-rights movement
Review: The A-Team
We love it when a plan comes together
Review: Toy Story 3
The play's the thing
Review: Trash Humpers
Harmony Korine: older enfant terrible , or just plain old terrible?
Tilda Swinton's mixed metamorphoses
Indie-cinema luminary gets retrospective in P-Town

Music

Bonnaroo 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] The Avett Brothers, Clutch, Norah Jones, and more
Live from Bonnaroo 2010 | June 12, 2010
Bonnaroo 2010 (Sunday): [Photos] Japandroids, Miranda Lambert, Kris Kristofferson, Blues Traveler, and more
Live from Bonnaroo 2010 | June 13, 2010
Boston Rap's Class of 2010
These 10 homegrown hip-hop artists are ready to graduate to the big time
Coming soon, unfortunately
Music you don't want

Music Continued

Guitaristic
Ben Monder's unique space
Interview: Glenn Danzig
The horror-punk legend on  Deth Red Sabaoth , comics, and vast global conspiracies
Joe Pernice and Joyce Linehan's collected tweets
The Twitterary Life
Mary Chapin Carpenter | The Age of Miracles
Zoë/Rounder (2010)
Mission accomplished
Isis call it quits with a last-hurrah tour
Pernice Brothers | Goodbye, Killer
Ashmont (2010)
Photos: Crowd shots from Bonnaroo 2010
  Bonnaroo 2010 | June 10-13, 2010
Rockport rules
A new beginning for the music festival
Salif Keita | La Différence
Emarcy (2010)
Suckers | Wild Smile
Frenchkiss (2010)
Summer treats
Whether classical, jazz, pop, or folk, 'tis the season to get out and enjoy the music
The Futureheads | The Chaos
Dovecote (2010)
Tony Cennamo (1933-2010)
Boston jazz loses a great
Vinnie Paz | Season of the Assassin + Reef the Lost Cauze vs. Guns-N-Butter | Fight Music
Enemy Soil (2010)

News

Boston Phoenix Summer Guide 2010
Have a weird summer!
Drawing inspiration
Anarchist Seth Tobocman brings radical comic-book to the Lucy Parsons Center
Menino's money problems
Letters to the Boston editor, June 18, 2010
Say what?
Obama should forget the feel-good and seize the opportunity in the Gulf
Temptation: Some Like It Hot
A Martha's Vineyard lust odyssey

RecRoom

Cardinal sin
Drunken golf-cart fun at Stanford; plus, an aspiring NHL goon takes his show off the ice
Crossword: ''Movie Madness''
Be kind, can't rewind
Gone but not forgotten
Henry VIII and The Tudors bid adieu
Oprah, red in tooth and claw
All God's creatures get nailed in Life
Review: Red Dead Redemption
Grand Theft Oater?



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