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US – Friday, November 20

The week's releases

Metro staff reviews the latest CDs, DVDs and books for your reading pleasure.

The saga continues with rush of ‘New’ blood

REVIEW. No matter how this review of ‘New Moon’ ends, whether this critic loves or loathes the film, is irrelevant. If you’re one of the legions of “Twi-Hards,” you’ll be stepping on heads to see it this weekend anyway.

It's a sisters thing

Anna Christie first appeared in the these pages back in 2006, when she was among the frequent street performers in Suburban Station.

What women want: Wilmer

How does Wilmer Valderrama do it? The actor has dated a bevy of Hollywood beauties, from Mandy Moore to Lindsay Lohan (pre-career implosion) to Hilary Duff. He’s even claimed that Ashlee Simpson and Jennifer Love Hewitt have had a piece of Vaderrama-action.

The saga continues with rush of ‘New’ blood

REVIEW. No matter how this review of ‘New Moon’ ends, whether this critic loves or loathes the film, is irrelevant. If you’re one of the legions of “Twi-Hards,” you’ll be stepping on heads to see it this weekend anyway.

These Orphans are not afraid to play with ‘Dolls’

Ryan Landry and his Gold Dust Orphans have long been having their way with some of the greatest films of all time. Finally, the men, women and not-so-easily-identifiable members of this ridiculously talented troupe take on the big kahuna of camp, “Valley of the Dolls.”

Arts

Exploring every ‘Avenue Q’ puppet

The fuzzy puppets that inhabit “Avenue Q” won’t teach their audiences how to sing the ABC’s. These mature Sesame Street-like adult puppets have real problems: sex, racism, morals and finding a purpose in life.

T time

T Time: Week of November 13th, 2009

Boston Arts

‘The Roof’ is on fire at the Opera House

A good production of “Fiddler on the Roof” should send you out into the street singing (if only in your head) one of its many famous musical numbers.

Photo: GARY NG

Boston Arts

‘A Tale of Two’ actors

Robin Eldridge is all about method acting, whether intentional or not. As Victorian lady Lucie Manette in “A Tale of Two Cities,” she lays eyes on her father for the first time in 18 years.

Winter Arts Preview

Theatre: Singing murderers and trippy puppets

Winter Arts Preview

Music: It’s classical, jazz and Pops

Winter Arts Preview

Dance: Jumping up and down

Listings

T Time: Week of November 6th, 2009

Where to go and what to do!

Boston Arts

We lift our hearts in praise

Boston Ballet Company has all the right moves

All in a day’s Cirque

Shakespeare at the disco

‘A great queer’

A stirring ‘Quake’

Giving everybody Access to Theatre

Oh, what a night!

‘Madness, yet there is method in it’

Boston Arts

Learning how to ‘Walk Like a Man’

This cast owns ‘Rent’

‘Shh!’ will make you laugh out loud

One final ‘Season of Love’

‘Color’ us impressed

Theatrical ‘Perversity’

The ‘Purple’ reign

‘Acting Out’ of humanity

Day tripping in Massachusetts

The Pride is high

The November MMMpod features interviews and music with a band called Girls, a band of girls called Supercute, and a supercute vampire. Yes, listeners, we have Pattinson!