The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 2009:
PARTING SHOTLet the sunshine in
May 01, 2009 ... Caption ...
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
May 01, 2009 ... Today is Friday, May 1, the 121st day of 2009. There are 244 daysleft in the year. Today's birthdays: Former astronaut Scott Carpenter is 84.Country singer Sonny James is 80. Singer Judy Collins is 70. ActorStephen Macht is 67. Singer Rita Coolidge is 64. Pop singer NickFortuna ...
Blogging for dollars ; ALEX BEAM
May 01, 2009 ... Late last month Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's notoriously ineptcampaign pollster, published an article in the Wall Street Journalasserting that "there are almost as many people making their livingas bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are makingtheir primary income from ...
Keep threesome in fantasy land
May 01, 2009; ... Q. I am 25 and have been in a relationship with 26-year-old"Randolph" for two years. We, of course, have had some emotional upsand downs, but overall it's wonderful. Our sex life has also beenincredible. However, about six months ago while playing fantasygames, we pretended we were in ...
Cr i ti c' s c o rn er ; BY MATTHEW GILBERT
May 01, 2009 ... In Treatment 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m., HBO2 This season has focused more on Gabriel Byrne's Paul Weston, andthat has really been working for me. Byrne (left, with Dianne Wiest)has been dazzling, in his usual low-key way. Tonight, HBO2 is airingthe fourth week's episodes back to back, and ...
Daily guide
May 01, 2009 ... ON BOSTON.COM Chat at 1 p.m. with Ty Burr on movies. ON CHRONICLE Medical Journal 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV (Channel 5) Liz Brunner joins"Chronicle" to tell the story of radio show host Glenn Ordway andthe medical emergency that threatened both his wife and newborndaughter ....
OPENING THIS WEEK
May 01, 2009 ... Revanche (unrated), 26 Tyson (R), 23 Every Little Step (PG-13), 24 Lemon Tree (unrated), 27 Ballerina (unrated), 25 American Violet ...
Animal magnetism ; Jackman is the X factor as `Wolverine' tells back story of metal- infused mutant
May 01, 2009; ... Hello, police? Come quick! A naked man just leapt over a fake-looking waterfall. Describe him? I don't know. Bee Gees hair. Clint Eastwood scowl.Zero-percent body fat. And a metal exoskeleton that would make himhell to stand behind at airport security. I think he just hosted ...
An addict's journey through doctor's eyes
May 01, 2009; ... If you're an internist working with drug addicts, the odds that aYAVIS seeking treatment will appear in your office are pretty slim.So when it happened to Dr. Michael Stein one cold April morning, hetook notice - and not only as a medical man, but also as a writer.The resulting ...
Kuduro shakes things up on the dance floor
May 01, 2009; ... So you've grooved to house, tranced to techno. You've shaken toghetto-tech, Baltimore club, and Miami booty bass. Perhaps you'veundulated to Brazilian baile-funk or hard-charged the floor toLondon grime or dubstep. In the process you may have noticed dancemusic getting faster - and its ...
SOUND OFF ; ON OUR MINDS AND ON OUR PLAYLISTS
May 01, 2009; ... Searching through all the listings of concerts coming to town canbe a hassle. There's a wealth of information out there, usuallypresented by date, but it can be a bit mind-numbing to scrollthrough it all. Sometimes you want an easy-to-digest overall pictureof, say, artists coming to ...
iPOD SHUFFLE
May 01, 2009; ... Lucy DeVito, starring as La Piccola in the Huntington TheatreCompany's production of "The Miracle at Naples" at the CalderwoodPavilion at the BCA through May 9. It comes as a surprise to her, but DeVito has hipster taste inmusic. How else to describe the 26-year-old actress' iPod, ...
In cyberart, technology trumps imagination
May 01, 2009; ... Sometimes being an art critic has an undeniably comic dimension.Take, for example, last week. Dutifully, but with high hopes, Ispent three full days taking in the visual arts components of the10th annual Boston Cyberarts Festival. I tried to approach this extravaganza, billed as ...
Bearing up ; G FORCE | BRUINS AD TEAM
May 01, 2009; ... As anyone who watches NESN or ESPN knows, there's a new mascot intown: a quasi-ferocious 7-foot bear who occasionally does a freakyvictory dance to celebrate the Bruins' winning ways. The new adcampaign - designed to promote the team's video player atBostonBruinsTV.com - features the ...
Peaceful spirits
May 01, 2009; ... Street-level bars are fine, particularly the kind with big openwindows where you can watch the world go by over a pint. But there'ssomething about bars a level removed, be it in a basement or asecond story, that can more readily pull you out of the day to dayand into your own private ...
The welcome wagon ; OPENING
May 01, 2009 ... We didn't get this kind of welcome when we moved into ourneighborhood. SoWa Sundays hosts OCOT: The Opening Celebration onThayer, a party for 10 new galleries, stores, and design companiesthat have set up shop in the South End. There will be live music byHayley Goff and Chris Parlon, a ...
Brahms lullabies ; CLASSICAL
May 01, 2009 ... You'll be ready for bed after this concert by the Boston Cecilia,but not because they'll put you to sleep. The chorus performs "Bringon Brahms," an evening of familiar and unfamiliar choral and soloworks with a night theme. The program features "Alto Rhapsody," "OHeiland reiss die Himmel ...
Shake your maracas ; BENEFIT
May 01, 2009; ... We don't know if Mayor Menino will lead the conga line, buthizzoner will be at tonight's "Club TropiCaliente!" benefit for theHurley School. The event title comes from the legendary Bostonnightclub that was a mecca for Latin Music with performers XavierCugat, Tito Puente, and other ...
Here comes the bride ; OPERA
May 01, 2009 ... You know the drill. Marenka and Jenik want to get married, butthe girl's father has other plans for his daughter. He wants her tomarry someone she has never met - the son of a wealthy landowner.Enter the marriage broker to help dad get what he wants. OperaBoston finishes its season with ...
StagesTaking a different route to playing `Strangers'
May 01, 2009; ... Robert Serrell, who stars in "Strangers on a Train" startingThursday at Stoneham Theatre, had trouble remembering his lines. Onpaper, his character seemed like a one-dimensional psychopath.Serrell, 33, just couldn't get into his head. Best known in its film version - Alfred ...
Prine numbers ; FOLK
May 01, 2009; ... "When I was 17, my Dad brought home John Prine's first album andit became my private religion for a while. I learned to play theguitar by learning his songs, and my Dad and I still play themaround the table after supper when I'm home. They've kept me companyfor years in hotel rooms and ...
At 40, new-music ensemble keeps up with the times
May 01, 2009; ... Boston audiences inclined to contemporary music don't know howgood they have it. Back in 1969, no professional ensemble devoted tonew music existed here (or anywhere else in the state, for thatmatter). Listeners were generally limited to what they could catchfrom student groups at local ...
Simple case of going from wronged to righteous
May 01, 2009; ... It's always something in "American Violet," a pat social dramaabout the scourges of racism and classism in the Texas legal system. The material comes from the facts of a case involving a crookeddistrict attorney and the ACLU lawyers who go after his systematictargeting of poor ...
His womanizing ways are spirited, if empty, in `Ghosts'
May 01, 2009; ... With "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," Matthew McConaughey completeshis transformation into the George Hamilton of his generation. Fit,profoundly tan, rested from sybaritic pleasures we can only guess at(I do hope they still involve bongos), the star now exudes a lazyself-mockery that ...
`Tyson' captures ugly paradoxes of fighter's life
May 01, 2009; ... One approaches "Tyson" in a protective crouch. How can adocumentary about former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson hopeto square the ugly paradoxes of the man - the achievements insports and the conviction for rape, the fame embraced and the earbitten off? Bad karma is written on ...
The soul of a dancer
May 01, 2009; ... As every dancer knows, ballet is a grand contradiction. To masterits soft, seemingly effortless, and ethereal moves, one must trainimpossibly hard, embrace rigid discipline, and perfect contortionsthat are as inwardly punishing as they are outwardly beautiful. Plenty of films have ...
Making it in `Chorus Line'
May 01, 2009; ... Professional stage actors are a far more compelling subject ofstudy than typical movie actors. Everything about them is turned upa level - their hunger for a part, their self-confidence, self-doubt, their lust for approval. In despair, they bleed charisma.Even in repose, they're ...
Finding quiet moments between robbery, revenge
May 01, 2009; ... Amid the stillness in Gotz Spielman's "Revanche," there issurprise. Not so much the narrative kind - although this intimatelydrawn crime-melodrama has that - but physical. The camera moves inon a face at some point, and it's breathtaking, since, until thatpoint, it hadn't moved much at ...
`Terra' treads familiar ground
May 01, 2009; ... From: Commander-director Aristomenis Tsirbas To: Aliens and moviegoers Message: We are a friendly film entity. We mean you no harm. Weseek 85 minutes to entertain you and your offspring with ouranimated offering. Yes, "Battle for Terra" is a clash-of-civilizations ...
Politics, ethnicity anchor `Tree'
May 01, 2009; ... In the last few years the Israeli Arab actress Hiam Abbass hasbecome a cinematic force of nature - an Anna Magnani of the MiddleEast. US moviegoers know her as the mother in "The Visitor," but herbest recent role was probably the bride's older sister in 2004's"The Syrian Bride," wearily ...
A little magic and maturity from Caine
May 01, 2009; ... To answer the question put forth by the title of "Is AnybodyThere?": Michael Caine is there, single-handedly lifting a soggy bitof coming-of-age whimsy into the category of the watchable. At the age of 76, the British actor - always charming, everunderrated - has moved into ...
For shows on bubble, waiting game begins
May 01, 2009; ... NEW YORK - Harold Perrineau is waiting for a simple yes or no. He's waiting, just like his costars on ABC's quirky new cop drama"The Unusuals." "It's nail-biting time," says Perrineau. "I'm trying to be cool,but I'm knotted up." Like "The Unusuals," dozens of network ...
Sex, shrugs, and rock 'n' roll
May 01, 2009; ... Composer Duncan Sheik has described "Spring Awakening," the Tony-winning musical he wrote with Steven Sater, as "a rock concert wherea play breaks out." That feels exactly right - and it alsodescribes exactly the kind of energy the show needs if it's tosucceed: the energy of rock, not ...
Finding quiet moments between robbery, revenge
May 01, 2009; ... Amid the stillness in Gotz Spielman's "Revanche," there issurprise. Not so much the narrative kind - although this intimatelydrawn crime-melodrama has that - but physical. The camera moves inon a face at some point, and it's breathtaking, since, until thatpoint, it hadn't moved much at ...
End the cocaine disparity
May 01, 2009 ... IN A POWERFUL domestic declaration Wednesday, the Obama JusticeDepartment came off the presidential fence on one of America's worstcriminal statutes. Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer told aSenate judiciary panel that it was time to "completely eliminate"the vast federal ...
The torture question lingers
May 01, 2009 ... BY COUNTENANCING torture of suspected terrorists, George W.Bush's administration created a quandary for a successor who rightlyopposes the practice. How can President Obama disavow interrogationtechniques that violate US law without seeming to criminalize thepolicy choices of his ...
A local campaign with issues
May 01, 2009 ... HOUSE SPEAKER Robert DeLeo shouldn't count on reinforcementsarriving from the Third Suffolk District to help him hold a veto-proof majority for the House plan to raise the sales tax. The fourDemocratic candidates vying for the seat vacated by former speakerSalvatore DiMasi said they ...
Blessings of a divided government
May 01, 2009; ... THE GOVERNOR is mad at the Legislature and the Legislature isangry with the governor and I couldn't be more pleased with the lotof them. The donnybrook over the sales tax hike, pensions, andethical reforms is turning into a textbook example of the blessingsof divided government ....
Ailey troupe is as vital as ever
May 01, 2009; ... When Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returned to Boston onTuesday, beginning a seven-performance run celebrating the company's50th anniversary, two things were immediately apparent. One, this isno empty relic of a company: Twenty years after the foundinggenius's death, its spirit is ...
Scot LehighStudents sacrificing for education
May 01, 2009 ... IT'S A LOVELY spring afternoon, and I'm sitting at J.P. Licks,the Jamaica Plain ice cream cafe, listening as a group of BostonLatin School juniors recount their determined efforts to avoidhaving to take a five-course load. Now, before you say, "In my day we walked through snow ...
Noah and Whale ride wave of artful extremes
May 01, 2009; ... Sometimes an apology from the stage really only matters to themusician making it. Charlie Fink, the forlorn frontman of theBritish indie-pop quartet Noah and the Whale, was sorry for hisvoice at the Paradise Rock Club Wednesday night. He had lost it atthe start of this new tour, "but no ...
Bennett donates instruments before performing at Jazz fest
May 01, 2009; ... NEW ORLEANS - Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of newinstruments yesterday to students at a charter school founded in thewake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets, and tromboneswould be used to carry on New Orleans' vibrant musical tradition. Meanwhile, the ...
Plan to let judges alter loans is killed
May 01, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled Senate yesterday defeateda plan to spare hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosurethrough bankruptcy. A dozen Democrats joined Republicans in the 45-51 vote to scuttlethe bill, which President Obama had said was important to saving ...
Credit card rules pass House ; Senate also has plan in the works
May 01, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - Riding a crest of populist anger, the Houseyesterday approved a bill to restrict credit card practices andeliminate sudden increases in interest rates and late fees that haveentangled millions of consumers. The measure passed by a bipartisan vote of 357 to 70 ...
30-year rate at record low
May 01, 2009 ... Rates on 30-year mortgages tied a record low this week, spurringrefinancing activity as the housing market moves closer to possiblyhitting bottom, Freddie Mac said yesterday. Average rates on 30-year fixed mortgages slid to 4.78 percentfrom 4.8 percent last week. Last year at this ...
Greenspan cites illegal workers' value
May 01, 2009 ... WASHINGTON - Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the FederalReserve, said that illegal immigration makes a significantcontribution to US economic growth by providing a flexibleworkforce. Greenspan, appearing before a Senate subcommittee yesterday, saidillegal immigrants provide a ...
Electronic tax filing jumps 19 percent
May 01, 2009 ... WASHINGTON - A record number of individuals filed tax returnselectronically using their home computers in 2009, up 19 percentfrom a year earlier, US tax regulators said yesterday. More than 31 million people filed 2008 tax returns usingsoftware, up from 26 million a year ago, ...
Madoff brother wants licensing fee
May 01, 2009 ... NEW YORK - The brother of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hasdemanded a $500,000 licensing fee for a branch of the familybusiness recently put on the auction block, a lawyer told abankruptcy judge yesterday. Peter Madoff's asking price for Primex Holdings LLC became ...
Acme Packet acquires Covergence
May 01, 2009 ... Acme Packet Inc., of Burlington, has acquired privately heldCovergence Inc., of Maynard, for consideration valued at $22.8million. Acme Packet focuses on session border control (SBC) solutions,which enable the ...
Boston Properties apt to cut dividend
May 01, 2009 ... NEW YORK - Boston Properties Inc., the largest office realestate investment trust, said it will probably cut its dividend inthe second quarter to bolster the balance sheet. "If nothing unanticipated occurs, we expect our dividend to be inor around 50 cents starting next quarter," ...
Sepracor's quarterly profit jumps
May 01, 2009 ... Sepracor Inc., Evergreen Solar Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc.,and Athenahealth have posted quarterly earnings: Drug maker Sepracor said profit jumped nearly fivefold in thefirst quarter as a large research and development charge came offits books. It also recorded a tax benefit and ...
Ex-General Re executive is sentenced
May 01, 2009 ... HARTFORD - A former executive of Connecticut-based General ReCorp. was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison for hisrole in an accounting scandal that authorities say cost shareholdersof American International Group more than $500 million. Robert Graham, 61, of ...
3 Dunkin' shops get solar power
May 01, 2009 ... Dunkin' Donuts today is planning to unveil its first three solar-powered coffee shops in Massachusetts. The Canton-based company is holding a ceremony for the stores -two of them located in Attleboro and one in Rehoboth. Their ...
For the record
May 01, 2009 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a review of the BostonCyberarts Festival in today's "g" section, which is printed inadvance, cites the wrong date for an earlier Globe review of anexhibition in the festival. The review of that show, "Syntax," ranApril 3. To our readers: ...
Obama team's policy will target employers who hire illegal immigrants
May 01, 2009 ... WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is pursuing employers whoknowingly hire and exploit illegal workers, a policy notsignificantly different from the Bush administration's approach. The guidelines, sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcementagents yesterday, call for imposing ...
Study says rail systems need $50b
May 01, 2009 ... WASHINGTON - More than one-third of the trains, equipment, andfacilities of the nation's seven largest rail transit agencies arenear the end of their useful life or past that point, the governmentsaid yesterday. Many have components that are defective or may becritically ...
Death sentence given in child slayings
May 01, 2009 ... MOBILE, Ala. - A judge yesterday ordered a death sentence for an Alabama man convicted of murdering four young children by tossingthem from a bridge to "torture" his wife. Mobile County Circuit Judge Charles Graddick also ordered thatprison officials show Lam Luong photos of the ...
Captain says ships need guards to thwart pirates ; Ex-hostage tells senators special forces are key
May 01, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - Commercial ships in pirate-infested waters need asmall team of well-trained guards - preferably former military -to defend them and deter attacks, the famed captain of the MaerskAlabama told a congressional committee yesterday. "I don't mean a security guard. I ...
Sri Lanka rejects calls for cease-fire
May 01, 2009; ... COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka said yesterday that it would pushahead with its offensive against the Tamil Tigers, brushing offinternational calls for a cease-fire aimed at protecting thousandsof civilians trapped in the war zone. The rebels, facing near-certain defeat, vowed to ...
After 6 years, Britain ends combat role in Iraq ; Hands over military duties to US troops
May 01, 2009 ... LONDON - British military operations in Iraq ended yesterday, amonth ahead of schedule, closing a six-year mission that cost thelives of 179 British soldiers and was deeply unpopular in Britain. "Today Iraq is a success story. We owe much of that to theefforts of British troops," ...
12 slain in Azerbaijan shooting ; Man opens fire at prestigious school in Baku
May 01, 2009; ... BAKU, Azerbaijan - A young man armed with an automatic pistoland clips of ammunition rampaged through a prestigious school in theAzerbaijani capital yesterday, killing 12 people and wounding othersbefore killing himself as police closed in, the government said. Little is known ...
Stocks end mixed after Chrysler bankruptcy
May 01, 2009 ... Chrysler's bankruptcy put just a small dent in Wall Street'srally. Markets ended mixed after President Obama confirmed thetroubled automaker will go through bankruptcy ....
Walt Disney shares rise on Hulu stake ; MARKET MOVERS CHARTS ARE SCALED SO PERCENTAGE CHANGE IS COMPARABLE
May 01, 2009 ... California-based Walt Disney Co. is acquiring a stake inHulu.com, gaining a new Internet outlet for films and TV shows onthe third most popular video website. Disney joins NBC Universal,News ...
Green Mountain
May 01, 2009 ... Waterbury, Vt.-based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. surgedthe most in eight years after it said Wal-Mart will carry its Keurigsingle-cup coffee makers. Earlier yesterday the stock gained 50percent, ...
Cost cuts help OfficeMax offset weak sales ; MASS. MOVERS
May 01, 2009 ... Office supply retailer OfficeMax Inc. said profit fell 79 percentas weak demand from consumers and small businesses persisted. Butcost-cutting efforts helped the retailer, which has a significantpresence in Massachusetts, post results that sharply beat analystexpectations ....