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Abraham Lincoln Reborn As A Vampire Slayer

Suppose that, in 19th-century America, the forces of good and evil battled for the soul of the new republic — what we now know as the Civil War. Author Seth Grahame-Smith explores that premise in a new book you can really sink your teeth into.

Weekend Edition Sunday

Shake Or Stir, But Please Don't Sweeten

By Bonny Wolf

The perfect martini, according to Bonny Wolf, contains two ingredients with little embellishment.

Weekend Edition Sunday

Paralyzed Graffiti Artist Draws With His Eyes

A group of artists and hackers has crafted a gadget that costs about as much as an iPod shuffle.

Weekend Edition Sunday

Abraham Lincoln Reborn As A Vampire Slayer

Author Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln is out for vengeance.

Weekend Edition Sunday

Shake Or Stir, But Please Don't Sweeten

By Bonny Wolf

A proper martini isn't made with vodka. It isn't green, and its ingredients do not include fruit flavoring or chocolate. For food commentator Bonny Wolf, these points are not insignificant, so Wolf shares her recipe for the perfect martini, a pleasure that needs no sweetening.

Weekend Edition Sunday

Paralyzed Graffiti Artist Draws With His Eyes

A group of artists and hackers have crafted a gadget that lets a paralyzed graffiti artist continue making art using only his eyes. And it costs about as much as an iPod shuffle.

Weekend Edition Sunday

Abraham Lincoln Reborn As A Vampire Slayer

All Things Considered

Three-Minute Fiction: And The Winner Is …

The clock on our Three-Minute Fiction contest is ticking. Stay tuned, and we'll reveal our latest winner on Sunday.

All Things Considered

Clinging To The Past And 'The Invisible World'

Set in the buildup to Indonesia's 1965 civil war, Tash Aw's Map of the Invisible World is the story of a 16-year-old boy on a quest to find his stepfather.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

Paddy Moloney Of The Chieftains Plays Not My Job

For Paddy Moloney, March is about St. Patrick's Day — he founded the traditional Irish band The Chieftains 48 years ago. But for us, March is about March Madness. So we've asked Moloney to answer three questions about Fighting Irishmen, and other NCAA mascots.

SXSW 2010 Preview

The White Stripes, Sharon Jones, Chopin And More

African Legends, New Music From Shearwater And More

Breakup Songs, Wherein We Acknowledge Valentine's Day

The Magnetic Fields, Giant Drag, The Knife, And More

Your Boston Weekend: March 19–21

March 20, 2010, 3:54 PM

By GABRIELLE LEVY

BOSTON — Coming on the heels of St. Patrick’s Day and as many students are heading out of town for spring break, things are a little quieter this weekend of March 19 to 21. But the Spring Equinox and warmer weather should provide plenty of incentive to get out around town.

In Season 3, ‘Breaking Bad’ Characters Get Badder

March 20, 2010, 3:25 PM

By KEVIN SULLIVAN

A macabre statue of Bryan Cranston's character, Walt White, represents his moral decay.

BOSTON — Two men crawl on their bellies through a desert village. Soon, others join them as they progress, inch by inch, toward a makeshift Latin American temple. Inside, next to a scarecrow goddess, hangs a small, hand-drawn portrait of an ominous figure — Heisenberg. So begins the third season of AMC’s critically acclaimed series, “Breaking Bad.”

Big Top Cinema: Circus ‘Pit Band’ Scores Film

March 19, 2010, 11:02 AM

By ANDREA SHEA

Cirkestra, which started as a circus pit band, is led by former clown turned composer and accordionist Peter Bufano, right.

BOSTON — If circus clowns, circus freaks or circus music are your thing, you might want to make room in your schedule this weekend. The Big Top is heading to the big screen at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge.

A Mural Of Many Colors Is One High School’s Lingua Franca

March 19, 2010, 2:34 AM

By DAVID BOERI

Heidi Schork's colorful mural hugs the walls of Boston's English High School cafeteria. (Andrew Phelps/WBUR)

BOSTON — The new headmaster of Boston’s English High School had big plans for an academic turnaround. He also wanted to brighten the place up. So he invited the public muralist for the city of Boston — and got more than he or any of the students expected.

What’s New In Gardner Case? Just The Year

March 18, 2010, 4:53 AM

By DAVID BOERI

A security guard stands outside the Dutch Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 21, 1990, where robbers stole more than a dozen works of art in an early morning robbery in Boston. (AP)

BOSTON — Twenty years ago, as neighborhood students on Palace Road headed home from parties that had closed out St. Patrick’s Day, 13 pieces of art, some of them crown jewels, went out the side door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the arms of two not-so-gentle gentlemen, and became missing royalty of the art world.

‘The Daughters’ And ‘Las Meninas’ Rendezvous In Spain

March 15, 2010, 10:04 PM

By ANDREA SHEA

MFA Director Malcolm Rogers and Prado Director Miguel Zugaza stand in front of John Singer Sargent’s "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" and its direct source of inspiration, Diego Velázquez’s "Las Meninas." (Andres Valentin/Prado)

John Singer Sargent’s masterpiece, “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit,” is known to have been inspired by Spanish artist Diego Velazquez’s “Las Meninas.” Now the two works are being displayed together for the first time at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.

Ballet Goes Krump At Dorchester’s Strand Theater

March 12, 2010, 6:00 PM

By ANDREA SHEA

BOSTON — After a brutal week of news about potential closings in the Boston Public School system, 700 students actually had something to dance about Friday in Dorchester. The Boston Ballet performed for them in the morning, for free, at the historic Strand Theatre.

Your Boston Weekend: March 12–14

March 12, 2010, 3:03 PM

By GABRIELLE LEVY

Pat Cosgrove plays bagpipes with the Irish Prison Service Pipe Band, of Dublin, Ireland, during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston on March 16, 2008. (AP)

BOSTON — With St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, the weekend of March 12 to 14 has plenty of “green” events from cultural explorations to pub crawls.

Alicia Keys, And Other Big Acts, Play In The State’s Casino Debate

March 12, 2010, 7:27 AM

By ANDREA SHEA

Troy Siebels, inside the Hanover Theater (Andrea Shea/WBUR)

BOSTON — What do artists like Alicia Keys have to do with the casino debate in Massachusetts? Well, if you run one of the dozens of live performance venues in the state, resort-style casinos mean competition. Now venue managers and others in the entertainment business are taking their concerns to Beacon Hill.

Your Boston Weekend: March 5–7

March 05, 2010, 11:52 AM

By GABRIELLE LEVY

"The Hurt Locker's" Jeremy Renner arrives at the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on Feb. 15. (AP)

BOSTON — It’s Oscar week! While the biggest event of awards season takes place across the country, Bostonians are celebrating cinema and glamor in style for the weekend of March 5 to 7.

MFA Expansion Sets Sail With Exquisite Model Ships

March 03, 2010, 7:06 AM

By ANDREA SHEA

A model of the USS Constitution is on display at the MFA's new Art of the Americas wing. (Courtesy of MFA Boston)

BOSTON — The huge $500 million dollar expansion project at the Museum of Fine Arts hits a major milestone this week. After years of planning, fundraising, designing and construction, the first of 53 galleries is being installed in the new Art of the Americas Wing. It’s devoted to minutely detailed ship models.

Your Boston Weekend: Feb 26–28

February 26, 2010, 1:23 PM

By GABRIELLE LEVY

Win King Hu, 8, of Boston, performs a lion dance during a Lunar New Year celebration in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. The Year of the Monkey began Thursday, Jan. 22. (AP)

BOSTON — Two weeks into the Year of the Tiger, Lunar New Year festivals and events are easy to find for the weekend of Feb. 26 to 28.

Beacon Hill Debates Real Impact Of Film Tax Credits

February 25, 2010, 5:44 PM

By TED SIEFER

Would "Shutter Island" star Leonardo di Caprio, with Boston in the background, inspire a filmmaker to set up shop in Massachusetts? That was the debate Thursday on Beacon Hill. (Paramount Pictures)

BOSTON — Film tax credits: Economic stimulus or corporate welfare? That was the question at a Beacon Hill hearing Thursday. Rep. Steven D’Amico (D-Seekonk) said Massachusetts has seen a scant return on investment.

Brandeis Weighs Lowering Curtain On Graduate Theater, Among Cuts

February 24, 2010, 9:03 AM

By ANDREA SHEA

This "Save Theater" poster was designed by Lisa Polito, a second-year Brandeis MFA in Costume Design. (Courtesy Lisa Polito)

WALTHAM, Mass. — Though the school took criticism last year for announcing its intention to close the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, facing further financial woes, is considering more cuts to the arts, among items on the chopping block.

Your Boston Weekend: Feb. 19–21

February 19, 2010, 7:12 PM

By GABRIELLE LEVY

BOSTON — Mardi Gras kicked off in style this week, so naturally the weekend of Feb. 19 to 21 is chock full of Big Easy-themed events.

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