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Holy war

How an unholy alliance of Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals seeks to control our lives
And so it came to pass, Roman Catholics, Mormons, and evangelical Protestants have banded together to battle, well, the rest of us — the heathens, the godless liberals, the Hitchens-reading progressives.
By: JEFF INGLIS  |  June 28, 2010
 

Arts

Dutch courage
David Mitchell's Jacob de Zoet revises historical fiction
Photos: Topping Ceremony at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Gardner’s new wing takes shape
Unholy contraptions
Tavares Strachan's rockets, plus 'The Boat Show' at Drive By, and 'Sensed, Unseen' at GASP

Food

Review: Basho Japanese Brasserie
A tasty fusion of new and traditional Japanese fare
Review: Kelly's Roast Beef
A new Allston outlet captures the flavors, if not the charm, of the original

Life

Checking in with the Westboro Baptist Church
Idiot Box
Gassed-up seafood
Hoopleville
Give me back my bloody pad
Failure
The Great Unemployment Spill
Big Fat Whale

Movies

Interview: Mark and Jay Duplass
The  Cyrus writer-directors keep it simple
Review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Passion among the titans
Review: Cyrus
Umbilical discord: The Duplass Brothers get Oedipal
Review: Grown Ups
Puerile adult humor ensues
Review: Jonah Hex
Disfigured antihero shacks up with a prostitute
Review: Knight and Day
Cruise's creepiness only  adds to the role
Review: Le Amiche
An artsy, unsentimental chick flick
Review: Ondine
Mysterious mer-woman takes up with a fisherman
Review: Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Linking movies and Cubist painting
Stuff and nonsense
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle returns

Music

Against Me! | White Crosses
Sire (2010)
Dare to be filthy
Semi Precious Weapons celebrate partying and poverty
Don't mess with Neko
New Pornographers | House of Blues Boston | June 18, 2010
Dubb Sicks | Lifestyles Of The Sick And Fameless
Backyard Recordings (2010)
Kings of Queens
Why Mobb Deep are still the fittest
Light Pollution | Apparitions
Carpark (2010)
Photos: Courtney Love and Hole, live at House of Blues
Hole, live at House of Blues Boston, on June 23, 2010
Photos: Courtney Love at Ames
Courtney Love | Ames | June 23, 2010

Music Continued

Photos: Evelyn Evelyn at the House of Blues
  Evelyn Evelyn | House of Blues | June 19, 2010
Photos: Isis and the Melvins at the Paradise
Isis and the Melvins at the Paradise | June 21, 2010
Photos: James Taylor and Carole King at the TD Garden
  James Taylor + Carole King | TD Garden | June 19-20, 2010
Photos: New Pornographers at the House of Blues
New Pornographers | House of Blues | June 18, 2010
Quiet riot
The Points North don't need to be pushy
Review: Amanda Palmer and Evelyn Evelyn at the House of Blues
Twin pleasure
Review: Carole King and James Taylor
Live at TD Garden | June 19-20, 2010
Taio Cruz | Rokstarr
Mercury (2010)
The Big Hurt: Vince Neil acts his age
Plus The Situation singled, Drake unsurpassed, Pete Doherty denied, Lou Reed exonerated
The irresistible force of Dexter Romweber
Jetting
Twos for the road
Duos that did
Video: The 12 acts you should've seen at Bonnaroo 2010
From the xx to Jay-Z
Walter Sickert & The Army Of Broken Toys | Steam Ship Killers
Self Released (2010)
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby | Two-Way Family Favorites
Southern Domestic (2010)

News

Dear Phoenix Readers
A word from the new editor
Harper's Magazine, 1850-1980
The legacy of Willie Morris and Lewis H. Lapham
Holy war
How an unholy alliance of Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals seeks to control our lives
Homophobe to headline Boston's GospelFest
Gay Old Time Dept.
Mr. Patrick Goes to Franklin Park
'Deval in the 'Hood' Dept.
Riot squads
While Boston chilled, LA burned. What makes fans in some cities go wild — win or lose?
Same Old Faces
It's an outsider's year for candidates, but the consultants are old Beacon Hill mainstays. Plus, who spent what at the conventions, and Baker goes on TV first.
Save the pool
Plans to alter the magnificent reflecting pool at the Christian Science Center should not be allowed
Two sides to Guy
Boston Phoenix letters, June 25, 2010

RecRoom

Back to the future
Comedy Central resurrects Groening's other show
Crossword: ''Rumble in the Bowl''
Part of this unbalanced breakfast.
Review: Green Day: Rock Band
Repeat, repeat
Sports Blotter: Dead Duck
Oregon's Masoli finally stalls out; plus, a World Cup ambush, and Florida strikes back



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