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Dana White's Rough Guide to Boston

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Published Aug. 27, 2010 at 6:01 p.m.
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The UFC head honcho takes us on a brawl crawl through his old stomping grounds ... Dana White, president of the UFC, was born in Connecticut. But he's deeply proud of his post-adolescent Boston roots, and often boasts that he honed his rogue-plated charisma on the backstreets of Southie ... READ: The naked choke,By Eugene S. Robinson ... READ: Fighting the Good Fight: Toward a theory of honor in the octagon. By Dan Demetriou ... Dana White, president of the UFC, was born in Connecticut. But he's

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Joy, not jamming

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Published July 17, 2009 at 11:21 a.m.

King Sunny Adé and his African Beats, live at the Courtyard at the Museum of Fine Arts, July 15, 2009 ... In 1992, Nigerian juju master King Sunny Adé and his African Beats played the Park Plaza Hotel ballroom as part of the Boston Globe Jazz & Blues Festival. What I remember most vividly is the hypnotic overlap of undulating guitar lines ...

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Dancing in a new direction

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Published May 27, 2009 at 10:55 a.m.
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Notes from 'Ballets Russes 2009' ... The 100th birthday of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes prompted the expected centennial tributes in Boston: a "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1909–1929: Twenty Years That Changed the World of Art" symposium and exhibition at Harvard University in April, and a "Ballets Russes 2009" festival this month ... PULCINELLA (1920) Imagine having Picasso to do your curtain design ... Setting the Wang on fire: Boston Ballet's "Ballets Russes 2009." By Jeffrey Gantz ...

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Play by Play: May 22, 2009

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Published May 19, 2009 at 4:52 p.m.

Plays from A to Z ... Boston's theater schedule ... OPENING ... BEN'S TRUMPET ... BalletRox and Wheelock Family Theatre team up to present BalletRox director Anthony Williams's take on the Caldecott Medal–winning children's book by Rachel Isadora in which a young boy in Harlem discovers hot jazz. The evening will also include presentations of Peter and the Wolf and La Favorita ... Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 the Riverway, Boston 617.879.2000 May 29–June 7 Curtain 7:30 pm Fri 1 + 7:30

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Our digital landscape

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Published April 28, 2009 at 3:16 p.m.
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The 2009 Boston Cyberarts Fest ... The installation Children of Arcadia convinced me that the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival isn’t going to suck ... RISE AND FALL If the market drops, the weather could turn stormy in Children of Arcadia, at the Cambridge Arts Council ... The installation Children of Arcadia convinced me that the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival isn’t going to suck. I’d been worried because I’ve seen lots of local cyberart (or new-media, or tech art, or whatever you

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