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By Dan Savage


THIS WEEK IN THE DIG

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TOP ALBUMS OF 2008

Our writers pick their favorites from the year in music

This year was retro in many ways, but its music was carried out in a thoroughly modern way. Much of our top 10 (wish it was 100!) draws from the '80s, yet remains totally fresh. Things not included: Beck (aka Blech), Coldplay and, for the love of music and Jesus and Mom, Girl Talk.

Santogold | S/T

Moe Pope and Headnodic | Are Megaphone


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WASSAIL

Drinking liberally: an Old English tradition

When most modern drinkers think of wassail, that befuddling English Christmas carol is the first thing that springs to mind: "Here We Come A-Wassailing." But what does that even mean?


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Year In Review

Click here to view this year's chart (PDF)
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Dropping the ball

IT'S THAT TIME of year, where everyone starts resolving to be nicer, lose weight and (in our case) complain louder, in the hopes that some sultry editrix like Veronica Chao will look up from not really revising the Globe's City Weekly, emerge from her swanky edit lounge and notice you.

Since everyone is doing a New Year's thing—Jon Keller will doubtlessly wheeze through that pathetic Tom Selleck mustache of his about a "stooge of the year"—we figured, why not join the party?


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GLASVEGAS

The last time Scottish rockers Glasvegas tried to play here, singer James Allan nearly got deported. "We missed Boston last time because James didn't have his visa," bassist Paul Donoghue recalled. "The night before the appointment [to renew his visa], he went out and didn't get there.

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Music Notables

Dead Cats Dead Rats is not only the best-named band in the city, they're also the creators of a gloriously rockin' and rambling S/T debut.

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X-MASHUP

LOCAL PICK | X-MASHUP VARIOUS ARTISTS | SANTASTIC FOUR

 

DJ BC has been doing the mashup thing for as long as we remember.

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Heartless Economy

Budget cuts close senior health center on Christmas Eve

Through thick prescription lenses, the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) resembles Scrooge to some patients of the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center, which closes on Christmas Eve.


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DEATH RACE

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS | 12.21.08

Inspired by the cult classic Death Race 2000 from 1975, this is much worse than that ridiculously campy original.

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MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE

With all due respect, John Hodgman's second installment of "complete world knowledge" was written strictly for bathroom consumption. Considered on its own, the book's musings on all things philosophical and practical are too ridiculous to be seriously considered.

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Developing a headache

In a he-said/she-said City Council hearing last Tuesday, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) pitted itself against Elma Lewis Partners, the development team tapped for the Parcel P-3 development in Roxbury. And while the dispute focused on a proposed complex of commercial, housing, office, education and art centers on 8 acres of open land on Columbus Avenue between Ruggles and Roxbury Community College, it reflected a fallout in development that's being felt all over the city with the slumping economy.


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SILENT HILL HOMECOMING

KONAMI | 9.30.08

So here it is: my first crack at the Silent Hill series. I avoid these "survival horror" games because they're never scary and usually constricted by odd and unnecessary genre hallmarks like horrible controls, embarrassing imagery and storytelling—and ridiculous difficulty spikes.

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THE SPIRIT

Classic comic book fare from a comic book auteur

Author and illustrator Frank Miller, the man behind the visions of Sin City and 300, had not sat alone in the director's chair of a film until after attending comic god Will Eisner's memorial service, he was asked to helm The Spirit.



Featured Blogs

My Top 10 of 2008

By dayvidday on Mon, Dec 29, 2008 8:32 pm

 

Every loopy music scribe this side of the sun makes a year-end list to ensure their consistent, low-paying listening didn't go to a complete waste. Here's mine, with some off-the-cuff comments to sound all snarky-like and videos to boot. These are in no particular order, fwiw:

Let Them Eat Cake

By dayvidday on Mon, Dec 22, 2008 2:06 pm

 

Hard to believe, but unfortunately, not the least bit surprising:

 

"After receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it."

 


Barney's website

By Media Farm on Mon, Dec 15, 2008 6:13 pm

Why are we just discovering this now, with precious few days left in the Bush administration?

 

Barney has his own website

 

Can you imagine if this were the Bush administration's only job?

 






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