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Somehow—and somewhat paradoxically—many neighborhoods seem to be simultaneously gentrifying and becoming more ethnically diverse, when it comes to food."

--Dig food critic Ruth Tobias, in Eat Up!, the Dig's guide to spring dining. Click on SPECIAL ISSUES below for more.


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UNITED 93

A thrill ride you might not be ready to take

DAVID WILDMAN

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POLITICS ORDERED TO STAY 100 FEET AWAY FROM GOVERNANCE AT ALL TIMES

Bad idea of the year

PAUL MCMORROW

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MEDIA FARM

Media Farm responds to plagiarism allegations

DIG STAFF

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SPECIAL BONUS MEDIA FARM!

Dubai invades; Sal DiMasi's face taint

DIG STAFF

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Buy Me

STEM SELL RESEARCH

Get the green without the acres

SHAULA CLARK

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Music

CASSAVETTES

Tearful symmetry

LUKE O'NEIL

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Music

A-Trak

Kanye the hard way

MICHAEL BRODEUR

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THE TROUBLE WITH OPEN RELATIONSHIPS AND DIRTY UNCLES

Savage Love

DAN SAVAGE

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Performance Arts

THE MAN WHO

A series of disconnected vignettes mistakes itself for a play

JENNA SCHERER

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Music

THE BURN UNIT

Music News in Brief

DAVID THORPE

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“Dude, YOU ordered the burger!”

As part of the Dig’s spring dining guide, the city’s waitstaff offers tips on acting like a normal human being in restaurants

LUKE O'NEIL

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GANG GREEN

After supposedly torpedoing the Dems’ gubernatorial chances last time around, the Green-Rainbow Party girds for another go

JOE KEOHANE

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FROM THE EDITOR

Hitler Youth hits Fenway

JOE KEOHANE

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Buffy + R. Kelly sing-alongs

Nothing says spring like two consecutive nights of fucked-up, bodily-fluid-related group sing-alongs. On Thursday, the Coolidge screens the infamous Buffy musical episode, accompanied with subtitles and plastic teeth; on Friday, theatergoers will be treated to all 12 chapters of R. Kelly’s excruciatingly bad hip-hop opera, Trapped in the Closet. Prepare to caterwaul along as R. drinks Buffy's blood and then pisses all over a teenage vampire. Wait …