movies
Close is woman behind the man in ‘Albert Nobbs’
Glenn Close’s performance playing a woman living as a man in this genteel period drama is already getting Oscar buzz.
Movie Review
‘Pina’ embellishes dance onscreen
Donata Wenders/Sundance Selects
Wim Wenders’s ode to the work of the late German modern-dance choreographer Pina Bausch is a parting gift from one creative force to another.
Exclusive Sunday Preview
A sampling of stories from this Sunday's Globe.
theater
From punk-rock opera to Broadway musical
What began as a career-reviving concept album for the band Green Day in 2004 is now a national production that is set to come to Boston.
suns 79, celtics 71
Celtics’ woes continue, drop to 5-9
The Boston Celtics scored just 15 points in the opening quarter and 16 in the fourth as they fell tonight to the Phoenix Suns.
Court favors families in Bulger case
A federal appeals court today upheld million-dollar judgments in favor of families of James “Whitey” Bulger’s alleged murder victims.
peter s. Canellos
Mitt Romney’s biggest mistake
His implication that he has been the victim of a “politics of envy” due to his career at Bain Capital could cost him the Republican nomination, writes Globe editorial page editor Peter S. Canellos.
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Romney concedes race is ‘neck and neck’
Newt Gingrich’s surge in recent polls compelled Mitt Romney to admit today that the race for the Republican presidential nod has tightened.
“Geek pride is something you exercise with caution. It’s not necessarily a pickup line I would use.’’
Sriram Krishnan, four-time MIT Integration Bee champion
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Columnists
Metro
State promises $5.2b in local aid to cities, towns
Funding in the next fiscal year includes a $145 million increase for schools, the highest level of state aid to local school districts in state history.
Nation & World
Senate, House postpone vote on anti-piracy bill
Facing a storm of protest over online piracy legislation, Senate and House leaders said today they will put off further action on the measure.
Politics
Analysis
Wild day, feisty debate scramble GOP race
The raucous debate capped off a tumultuous 24 hours for the Republican party, leaving the impression that South Carolina’s primary has become a shaken snow globe.
Business
Cayman funds spur scrutiny for Romney
Mitt Romney’s campaign continued to deny suggestions yesterday that he invested money in off-shore funds to dodge US taxes — and some industry executives backed him up.
Sports
Bill Belichick keeps proving Robert Kraft right
The Patriots owner, in a wide-ranging interview today, said network TV officials tried to tell him in 2000 that hiring Belichick would be bad for his franchise.
Movies
MOVIE REVIEW
New ‘Underworld’ refuses to soften its bite
Vampires and werewolves are back at each other’s throats in “Underworld Awakening,’’ a sequel seemingly eager to assert that monster mashes are about B-movie chills, not “Twilight’’ melodrama.
Arts
Art Review
Victoria Morton presents inaugural show in Gardner’s new wing
It’s not the most auspicious beginning to the museum’s renewed contemporary art program, but it has merits.
Opinion
“It’s not even late January, and I’m already sick of the election-year political conversation.”
Carlo Rotella
Ideas
“The problem, as Shoup and his allies see it, is that parking on the street is simply too desirable. Because spaces are so cheap, drivers have a powerful incentive to spend time hunting for them.”
Leon Neyfakh on the case for the $6 parking meter