'crossover' presents a deadline for decision-making

Bills must pass the chamber in which they’re introduced before “crossing over” to the opposite chamber. Some notable legislation is either still up for its first vote; other bills are already on their way to the other side.

Elektra, 1970

Remember The Stooge’s ‘Fun House’? Heart-pounding, teeth-gnashing, musical napalm.

A cappella groups around the Seacoast skip the instruments but still rock the house.

Interest in a cappella music appears to be on the rise on the Seacoast. Sounds of the Seacoast’s membership is near an all-time high, and groups like Tuckerman's at 9 are amping up expectations. “You really have to hold your own,” says Mark Miller of Tuckermans at 9. “It’s the idea of taking songs that we like from whatever era and saying, ‘OK, this song was originally with instruments, let’s see if we can do it without instruments.’”

rated R

They may have pushed the release of “Green Zone” back to allow for last year’s Iraq-based and fantastically insightful “Hurt Locker” to win its Academy Award and generate fresh interest in contemporary war stories. But be warned: this shrink-wrapped, adrenaline fueled, Saturday matinee thrill-ride is no “Hurt Locker.”

Jennie and Company, 1983

An old friend offers to help a murderous thief scrape together enough cash to escape an assassin and make a clean getaway. In an old amusement park. In Mexico.

sports columnist Jackie MacMullan tells the whole story behind basketball’s greatest all-time rivalry

Anybody who followed basketball in the 1980s knows about the heated personal rivalry between Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson. But even long-time sports columnist Jackie MacMullan, who covered sports for The Boston Globe for 25 years, was surprised to learn how deep that rivalry ran.  

‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at The Players’ Ring

Director Matthew Schofield and stage manager Robin Fowler have done a remarkable job of adapting Mamet’s Broadway hit to the snug confines of The Players’ Ring in Portsmouth.

artstream is a spring break destination

With less expendable income and higher gas prices, Americans haven’t been taking off on road trips as often lately, but just in time for spring break, Artstream gallery in downtown Rochester presents “Seasonal Travel.” Representing the theme most literally, Amy Rice’s “I’ve Been Everywhere, Man” depicts a vintage travel trailer with striped awnings, sitting unhitched among trees cut from pastel maps. She also makes shapes with handwritten love letters and yellowed journal pages, which works especially well for a paper boat.

adventures in social media, community, and instant information

The data cloud has dropped to street level, the barrier between the real and virtual worlds has fallen, and the billion computer screens that once served as discrete windows onto the Internet have calved and splintered. Six essays illustrate the changes taking place around us every day, part of this ever-fascinating, ever-accelerating, and often confounding historical transformation in which we find ourselves unexpectedly taking part.