Arts Staff

New Music

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MTV - Handpicked Vol. II (Capitol Records) If the title suggests an earful of Christina Aguilera and other current songs

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P.J. Harvey Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island) A few hundred words in a college newspaper could

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ROBERT ROSENBLUM, curator and critic, lectures on "Inside/Out: Picasso vs. Bouguereau in 1900" at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7,

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Wu-Tang Clan The W (Loud/Columbia) Following up their multiplatinum 1997 release Wu-Tang Forever may have seemed like a daunting challenge.

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Think your family's insane? Head over to the Loeb Ex this weekend and check out George F. Walker's Escape from

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Rachel Perry Welty AT CLIFFORD-SMITH GALLERY When was the last time you thought about a twist tie? Perhaps never, but

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Guru Jazzmatazz Streetsoul (Virgin) Albums like Guru's Jazzmatazz Streetsoul make it hard to cram music into genres like hip-hop or

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Christina Aguilera My Kind of Christmas (RCA) If you have always wanted to know what Christina Aguilera's kind of Christmas

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Orgy Vapor Transmission (Warner) Orgy made its name with their debut album Candyass and hit cover "Blue Monday." But Orgy

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Making its much-anticipated move from the West End to the Loeb Ex, Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water begins a