The Boston Phoenix January 09-15, 2009: Vol 38 Iss 2

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from the agency for President George Bush's It looks as if sardonic comedian turned but witt a far sketchier public record and
oathsome I raq War And then there is the progressive politician Al Franken has eked nonexistent elective one is Caroline Ken ATIONS
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Bush's t yture program lican incumbent, right-wing nut-boy Norm from New York Governor David Paterson SSEENNIIOORR Ii MAUCNTAUGREER MANACER
If Pane *tta is onfirmed and the Phoenix Coleman. Coleman has said that he will to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated Senate seat IFANCFIOLRITMIAETSI OMNA NAGER TECHNICIAN
that he is — he'll have his work cut challenge the outcome in court. But so far, when she formally takes over her new job as NANCE
© him Franken has won every round of the tangled secretary of state
The foundation for Panetta’s appointment recount battle. (For once, the Democrats To apply the “Burris standard,” Kennedy is CORPORCAOTNET RcOoLnLTERRO LLER M
is his unqualified opposition to torture. Too seem to have better election lawyers than the certainly not the worst-quaiified candidate to
nany of the likely prospects for the job in the Republicans.) While almost any Democrat take over for Clinton. But she is also certainly
so-called intelligence community were — at would have been better than Coleman, you've not the best
a minimum — passive enablers of torture got to love the fact that his replacement is the Given her family’s tradition of public
Panetta brings clean hands to the job of shov author of Rush LimbaughI sa Big Fat Liar service, Kennedy may well have a greater
eling out at least that stall in the CIA’s muck Even more thrilling is the wrangle over capacity for growth than Burris. Still,
mounded stable whether former Illinois attorney general Ro- what, in the final analysis, is so troubling
But Panetta comes with more than a land Burris will be seated to serve the remain about her appointment is her name. If
sense of decency. His tenure in the Clinton ing two years of Obama's Senate term. If the Caroline were not a Kennedy — if she were,
White House gave him a seat at the national television clips of Burris are any indication, say, a Burris — it is unlikely that she would
security table, where all top-level secret the man seems to be a model of self-satisfied be going to Washington
anne and programs of the Clinton ad pomposity. This suggests that Burris will be In an age when the gap between the haves
ministration were conceived, executed and well-suited to Senate life and the have-nots has grown so great, the
maintained. Panetta knows how a nd where Temperament aside, the flap over Burris’s idea of privileged political dynasties — be they
the mm ney is and how it fuels and lubri appointment is a phony one. As a former named Clinton, Bush, or Kennedy — should YW VERIFIED
this secret world statewide office holder, Burris would come be more troubling than comforting. ©
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hold their peace Cancer
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a new theater in the multilateral Cc > Letter that Wilkerson sent
purred by bribery ct leveled to Boston-area lergy in which she claimed
uxerson ssauite lerical leaders wh¢ Cancer isn’t funny, but the cancer-
ass-kicking fundraiser Comics fora
Cure could be. The benefit will fea-
ture comics Joe List, Nick DiPaolo,
Cary Gulman, Kevin Knox, and
Kelly MacFarland, and all pro-
ceeds will go to the Children’s
Neuro- blastoma Cancer Founda-
tion. (Neuroblastoma is the most
commonly diagnosed infantile
cancer.)
The fundraiser comes on the
tragic heels of another cancer-
graced state make assumptions. On that related event: the death of Boston-
Why has s note: even if BMA leaders did
rift, which potentiall conspire with legislators and based comedian Bob Lazarus,
Boston's black c inity? No, it’s not a media investigators to railroad Wilk who passed away this past week
conspiracy; rather it’s what inevitably happens erson, it’s in everybody's best after a battle with leukemia.
when aggravators on all sides clam up interest to stop snitching and
The Phoenix covered an inconsequential avoid the media. In that scenario, Sara Faith Alterman
December 30 meeting at the Roxbury YMCA Wilkerson gets remembered as a martyr (to
where no official delegates from the BMA or some degree), while the pols, feds, and ministers Comics for a Cure takes place january 3 at 8 pm at the
the Wilkerson amp were present. This past involved are on record as innocent, and everybody Cutler Majestic Theatre. Tickets are $55, $40 for stu-
Sunday the Boston Globe dropped a mostly gets to blame reporters for not doing their jobs dents. Donations also welcome. Call 800.233.3123 or
second-hand rumor round-up pegged toa Chris Faraone visit maj.org or comicsforacure.org.
Theater in the Red
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earn nearly a half-million dollars by the end of January in
order to sustain operations, and is appealing to the public for
urgent help in the form of donations and ticket purchases
High School Musical 2 (see “Scenes 4 Tweens,” page 18) runs
through January 11, and there are cabaret-style “Save Our
Theatre” performances scheduled for January 8 and 10.
Sara Faith Alterman
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Gravy, the NYC rapper tapped to play
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AN INTERVIEW WITH
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something out of the early
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even born in the early ‘90s. These
14-year-old Okies do, however,
have some heavy talent — so
long as you define “talent” in
terms of real artists like KISS and
Ted Nugent. Daniel Brockman
sneaks on the tour bus of 2009's
breakout teen sensations. At
thePhoenix.com/music.
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separated by a black square. contrarian post on jim Rice.
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PHLOG © Lisa Spinelli gets the buzz on the
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Thank you, Charles Barkley. Thank
you! Not that a DUI is ever really
funny, but if ever there was.a funny
DUI, it was the one racked up by
phocine former 76er/Sun Charles
“The Round Mound of Rebound
Barkley, who remains in contention
for the title of funniest pro athlete
Ss generation
In fact, I’m not even sure there
is a close second in that race at this
poir it. From the time he laughed
off a question at the Olympics
about why he elbowed a player from
Angola (“I thought he might have a
spear.”) to his answer to a judge who
90 HD TVs - No Cover asked tf he had anyl y regTegr ets about
throwing a man through a first
floor b' ar window (“Yeah I regret
we weren't on gher floor.”) to
M-alr voice-over commentary
when TNT broadcast a photo of Sam
Cassell (“Phone home!”), Barkley
never failed to deliver the perfect
r at least perfectly inappropriate
FOOTBALL ne-liner. In an age of intellectu
ally timid athletes batting away
PLAYO FES | tough questions with agent-drafted
. platitudes, Barkley has been one
»f the few guys around just confi
dent enough in his brains to speak
his mind, and ju verconfident
ugh in se same brains t&
far
SAT JANUARY 10
" 7 ") ; : — E : SO ...NO SCORE? Despite offering to tattoo a cop's name on his ass, Barkley
Baltimore (11-5, 1-0) ee eee ee ee ae : still racked up a OUI after running a stop sign en route to a blowjob
vs. Tennessee (1-3 3 ) en snrme i < tecg l
te : 1” from the ying to “barbecue” Andre’s tennis
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vs. Carolina (‘2 - 4) Sa 1 window: Rison did it at a bar called
2d when he got p | EADER c and Mine, near the Kansas City
lice asked him if I er hiefs training-camp facility, and
BOARD! n arrest told the police his name
x A Brock Middlebrook. Rison has
I er, i [ n't * > P een involved in numerous incidents
SUN JANUARY 11 then explained that he had blow 1) ANDRE “BAD MOON” RISON including a $287,000 judgment
tk igh the stop sign because he (EX-CHIEFS, FALCONS, igainst him by a jewelry store in
Phialm adelphia. (9-6-11-0) aes eit 1UIT} th p a girl PACKERS, ETC.) | public pe-oergria pettoa whom Riso; n had writ
Ww d equently found in drunkenness | 20 hecks in order to buy bling
vs. NY Giants (‘-2 4) | the passenger seat. “You want the 2) CHARLES BARKLEY (EX-SUNS, ng his purchases: a $40,00g0o
id
trutt sarkle th SIXERS) | running stop sigt klace sporting the word “Dre
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vs. Pittsburgh (‘2 - 4) that he had been with the girl a
PR ai ae tai as nedia to give him the nickname
aaa Spider-Man.” He’d do Spider-Man
themed touchdown celebrations,
Sadly, were leaving Chuck with ind everyone would just ignore him
i, and Barkley was ist 1S points and an early spot or Hilarious stuff
station and booked yur leader board h Now Rison has been arrested
ld a civilian p public drunkenness after being
iat he would “tattoomy STILL NOT SPIDER-MAN rambunctious” at the Crowne Point
name on your ass” if the I Wow, we've got some old-time sports | at the San Antonio Riverwalk
simt ate) would get him out of the DUI. rime in this first week of the year According to police, Rison and a
3 BOSTON Barkley reportedly laughed and First Chuck, and now Andre “Bad friend caused a scene in the lobby;
= cor. rected himself: “I'll . tatt ul Moon” Rison — one of the true O¢ f the former Pro Bowler paid an $85
name on my ass the NFL's 1990s crime heyday has fine and was released
In the car, police found a hand been busted for public drunkenness Ten points for the public intoxi-
gun, wine coolers, and a box of You might recall Rison as that ation, plus another 10 for being
re 3 bear-claw doughnuts. Only Charles trash-talking wideout who got him Andre Rison. ©
Barkley goes on a doughnut run in self thrown in jail for failure to pay
between a bar and a blowjob. The child support, and whose Atlanta-area When he’s not googling “Charles in charge”
82 Lansdowne Street, Boston guy is the best there i mansion was burned down by his late _ and “forgot about Dre,” Matt Taibbi writes
617.351.7001 Normally, a DUI is 25 automatic crazy-ass girlfriend, Lisa “Left Eye for Rolling Stone. He can be reached at
points, but I’m taking off 10 for Lopes, who told cops she was just [email protected].