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• Posted Review: Opera Boston's The Nose to Bostonist
  Every review of Dimtri Shostakovich’s opera The Nose is obligated to contain at least one nose joke, so I’ll get mine out of the way now: The spirited Opera Boston production at the Cutler Majestic Theatre makes the case for this rarely performed modernist masterpiece to enjoy a higher profile - get it? - in the repertoire.
• Posted Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country to Bostonist
  Though cruelly/constitutionally barred from voting, young citizens can still make their political voices heard. On January 15, the NY Times published letters from students of 826 National, the network of non-profit writing and education centers that was co-founded by Dave Eggers of the McSweeney's empire. Mireya, an eight-year-old San Franciscan, proposed a ten point plan for President Obama which included: "4. Kids can go visit you whenever they want." She further stipulated, "If No....
• Favorited DevalWatch: Money Woes, Money Foes on Bostonist
• Posted We're Going to Disney's (T-Accessible) World! to Bostonist
  There's an urge for Disney that must be satisfied. Every second of every song from The Lion King is jammed into your head but you can't turn the DVD off because then the kids will get restless, they'll start itching for Orlando, inching towards the holy land, the world that Walt built. Which would be okay, but your paychecks disappear faster than Dory's memories in Finding Nemo. The choices: 1. Get a second job...
• Posted (Re)discover Georges Rouault on the cheap to Bostonist
  If you're out of work, you may be in just the mood for something dark and beautiful and free. Look no further. Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art is hosting "Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958." Rouault was a French modernist, expressionist painter who studied under Gustave Moreau alongside Henri Matisse. The Globe noted that Rouault's work is often criticized and dismissed for its overtly religious sensibility. But they described this...