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							  Take three notorious singer-songwriters and one famous author. Give them eight hours to write and record an eight-song album. Broadcast the session on the internet. Release the album online the next morning, and perform it live in front of an audience the following night.  
							
							 
						
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							  If you're a music fan, over the past few years you've had to wrestle with the moral question of our time: to pay or not to pay.     
							
							 
						
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							  Music is data. A shitload of it packed in every single song. To people, music equals entertainment. To a computer, it's a precise stream of ones and zeros.     
							
							 
						
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							  In the 14th annual edition of the  Providence Phoenix 's Best issue, we highlight people and organizations who are doing exceptionally good work.  
							
							 
						
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							   This past March, Hub peace advocate and longtime hip-hop supporter Cindy Diggs called on the local rap community to unify and help calm Boston's most tumultuous streets.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							   The Independent Film Festival of Boston — now in its ninth year, and the most exciting film event in town, if not in New England — opens this week with two outstanding documentaries about two very independent and inspiring individuals.    
							
							 
						
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							 Shawn Fogel of Golden Bloom knows that his latest stage act is a formula for potential enormous suckitude. Take one of indie rock's sacred cows — Neutral Milk Hotel's 1999 album In the Aeroplane over the Sea — and play the whole thing, straight through, on ukuleles. Then have the audacity to call it Neutral Uke Hotel. 
							
							 
						
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							   Morgan Spurlock ( Super Size Me ) is at it again.   
							
							 
						
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							 Forensic scientists, bit players in crime fiction since the era of Sherlock Holmes, became bestseller material in the 1990s with Patricia Cornwell's cut-and-slice procedurals featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.  
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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