Photos: PLUG Awards 2008, Nick Cave, Dizzee Rascal, Marnie Stern, Ian Williams

Pizza is the world’s go-to chow — even in a war zone. 

Martin Luther King told of his growing nightmares and his enduring dreams in the rolling, hypnotic cadences of the rural preacher. But it was the humane, incorruptible mystique of the man that won the crowd, his crescendo phrases winning affirmations of “amen” and “Say it, brother” again and again.

The punk stalwart has worked in all realms of the music business and has survived to tell the tale.

“There’s always gonna be a backlash. And it’s sad. It’s maddening.”

After a decades-long fight that pitted a multicultural community center against for-profit dorms, a court ruling has put the long-vacant building back into play

The new generation of Iranians is seeking democracy and separation of religion and state.