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Fall Reading
Philosophy, politics, heartbreak, and more for those chill autumn nights

Yankee Haters Guide
With the New York Yankees coming to town for a climactic three-game set with our own Boston Red Sox, get the inside dirt on the torrid history between these eternal rivals.

Everyone should be as lucky as Peter Keough, who shares a meal and a chat with filmmaker John Waters, "the pope of trash."

David Bernstein talks to a couple of twentysomething guys in Cambridge who may have figured out how to use the Web to connect young adults - and their money - with Democratic campaigns large and small across the US.

Before everyone concludes that Andrea Cabral's victory in the race for Suffolk County sheriff shows that Boston's minority voters have hit their electoral stride, Adam Reilly takes a closer look at the anatomy of this election.

Dan Kennedy and Ian Donnis press license-holder Boston University into asking some hard questions about how public radio station WBUR is being managed.

In an affecting new work, writer Nick Flynn details his relationship with his father, and the dark worlds they've both inhabited. Mike Miliard reads and reports.

Tamara Wieder talks to famed guitarist Dave Navarro about his drug relapse, his downhill spiral, and his book, Don't Try This at Home: A Year in the Life of Dave Navarro.

In "Urban Buy," Liza Weisstuch is right as a feather.

In "Out There," Chris Wright says Dubai to all that.

In the Phoenix editorial: The real Romney - The 'reform governor' vetoes back pay for low-income workers at UMass, even as he grabs millions to fuel his political ambitions.

Letters to the editor

Moon Signs

Savage Love

Dr. Lovemonkey

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MUSIC

Ted Drozdowski says that Jake Brennan & the Confidence Men have delivered one of the best albums by a Boston band this year, and he talks with Jake about it.

Sean Richardson talks with Massachusetts heavy metal heavies Shadows Fall.

Death Cab for Cutie join Pearl Jam's anti-Bush bandwagon, and Michael Alan Goldberg learns more about their liberal politics.

Matt Ashare remembers Johnny Ramone, the guitar player who showed all the other punks how to do it.

Giant Steps: Jon Garelick on The Beat Circus's vaudevillean bent; plus Danilo Pérez and Bruno Råberg.

Prism Opera delivers medium-rare Mozart, and Lloyd Schwartz listens.

Live reviews of: JACK JOHNSON AND G. LOVE and HOLLYWOOD'S RAMONES TRIBUTE.

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