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Thursday, September 02, 2010

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Digital Armageddon: Could foreign hackers execute a crippling attack on American shores?


A key Department of Defense network goes down. Air-traffic control collapses. Trains collide. Financial data systems are in ruins. Lethal clouds of chlorine gas drift from plants in New Jersey and Delaware.
By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  September 03, 2010
 

Arts

Interview: Tom Green
On the Gathering of the Juggalos and his rules of behavior
Review: Rob Sheffield's inner Sheena
Womanly man

Food

Mohr and McPherson Café
Good coffee, snacks, and an escape from the isolation of your lonely home office
Review: The Haven
Giving the Scottish their long overdue credit for cuisine

Life

A blood-boiled appeal to the young and bewildered Boston newbies
You again?
A typical dorm room
Hoopleville
Higher education: How to do drugs in Boston
If you choose to partake, at least do it right
Hooray for students
Or, go out and bang a college kid tonight
I hope they don't have to amputate
Failure
Islamophobics Anonymous
Big Fat Whale
Photos: St. Anthony's Feast at the North End
St. Anthony's Feast | North End | August 27-29, 2010
Pimping his ride
History Dept.
Sleep when you're dead: A guide to late-night Boston
Think Boston shuts down at midnight?
Student Survival Guide 2010
Everything you need to live in Boston for the next four years.

Movies

Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Harvard Film Archive
Perverse poetry
Review: Going the Distance
Long, Barrymore are out of gas
Review: How I Killed Mumblecore
The answer: from within
Review: Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Cassel fights the power once more
Review: Pressure Cooker
Culinary school doc cuts like a knife
Review: Suck
Alice Cooper, Moby, and Iggy Pop walk into a bar ...
Review: Takers
More like "Takers or Leavers"
Review: The American
Gun for hire: Clooney's aim is true
Review: The Tillman Story
The fraud of war: a hero of our time
Review: Two in the Wave
Conventional documentary on unconventional subjects

Music

A Steve Albini vitriol sampler
Shellackings
Bloc Party's Kele Okereke adopts a solo platform
Boxer rebellion
Br1ght Pr1mate step up their game, boy
Monkey shines
Giant Steps: Goodies from Berklee's Beantown Jazz Festival

Music Continued

Giant Steps: Ted Rosenthal, Danilo Pérez, and Vijay Iyer
Pianos plus
Interview: Six Finger Satellite
Providence band talks Machine Cuisine Companion Cassette reissue
Live Review: Off the rails on a lazy train
Putting the "zzzzzzzzz" into Ozzfest
Photos: Autolux live at the Middle East
Autolux live at the Middle East Downstairs, August 27, 2010
Photos: Iggy and the Stooges at House of Blues
Iggy and the Stooges, live at the House of Blues, August 31, 2010
Photos: Scissor Sisters at the House of Blues
Scissor Sisters, live at the House of Blues, on August 28, 2010
Photos: Stone Temple Pilots at the Bank of America Pavilion
Stone Temple Pilots live at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA on September 1, 2010
Review: Fitz and the Tantrums | Pickin' Up the Pieces
Dangerbird (2010)
Review: Land of Talk | Cloak and Cipher
Saddle Creek (2010)
Review: Megafaun | Heretofore
Hometapes (2010)
Review: Ra Ra Riot | The Orchard
Barsuk (2010)
Review: Rose Elinor Dougall | Without Why
Scarlett Music (2010)
Review: The Sword | Warp Riders
Kemado (2010)
Shellac's Steve Albini sets his own sonic pace
Pure audiogasm
The Big Hurt: Tila gets shat on
Plus Faithless sell out, plus Jay Electronica vs. Lil B, and props for Cee Lo

News

Beck and Call
Glenn Beck’s rally on the Washington mall was scarier than you’d like to think
Digital Armageddon: Could foreign hackers execute a crippling attack on American shores?
Grimm connection?
Letters to the Boston editor, September 3, 2010
Just a reprieve? Unless Republican leaders learn from the past, another Iraq is in our future
In terms of foreign policy, the Republican Party remains unapologetically committed to Bush/Cheneyism
Obama on the Vineyard
Follow the leader
Worcester Rising
Lt. Governor Tim Murray, Congressman Jim McGovern, and sheriff Guy Glodis have pushed the Bay State's political frontier westward

RecRoom

Crossword: ''Everyone's Gotta Eat''
They're just doing what they believe in.
Review: Hydro Thunder: Hurricane
Hurricane Force: riding a high tide
Sports Blotter: Down, lineman
An arrest for the ages in Oregon. Plus, Jay Mariotti needs a timeout.
The Laser Orgy 500: the Phoenix's quest to crown the greatest video game of all time
Battle royal



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