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David Sax Reads from Save the Deli 7pm tonight, Brookline Booksmith David Sax's Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen is a mostly light-hearted, occasionally poignant document of his travels across the USA and Europe in search of (Jewish) times... continue reading on Bostonist

Michael Lewis doesn't just win Sandra Bullock Oscars; he writes books about market inefficiencies. This is especially true of Moneyball, his bestselling book about Billy Beane and the overachieving Oakland A's teams of the early 2000's. The shorthand that developed around Moneyball was that a high on base percentage... continue reading on Bostonist

Ty Burr, not yet killed by Ebert, brings tidings (how else can you refer to a post ending 'get thee hence'?) that the Stuart Street Playhouse will be showing The Hurt Locker from March 12 to 18 and possibly longer if the movie proves popular enough. This is good... continue reading on Bostonist

It's fitting that a movie whose ethos are so thoroughly grounded in the muckraking tendencies of the Age of Dewey (not-decimal) should be even somewhat connected to progressive education. Sure, the majority of the new film The Art of the Steal, which examines attempts to move an art collection... continue reading on Bostonist

Chris Jones' new profile of Roger Ebert in Esquire is excellent and often touching. And very few film websites are better than Ebert's blog, home to some of the most impressive and incisive reviews on the web. So we don't understand why the Globe's "MovieNation" is using the profile... continue reading on Bostonist