DEAR READER: THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
As I am writing this, a pair of Canadian backpackers two rows ahead of me are comparing hostels with a Brandeis sophomore in what is the most banal prelude to a threesome I’ve ever seen. And I went to...
View ArticleART HOUSED: CRAZY HORSE
Though his highly influential, monk-like restraint behind the camera may be taken as the Platonic Form of objectivity by some, documentary living legend Fredrick Wiseman reestablishes the great...
View ArticleDISNEYLAND PARIS: THE MAGIC ABROAD
“What? You traveled over 3,400 miles on an over-priced Air France 747 to ride Space Mountain?” I recently took the trip of a lifetime. Cliché, I know, but when the thumbtacks on your mind’s map of...
View ArticleIN THE TUBES: TAKEN’S REAL DAD
The 2008 crime thriller Taken was a mere piece in the elaborate puzzle that is Liam Neeson‘s ultimate bad-assery. From the first moment audiences heard his character, Bryan Mills, threaten the Albanian...
View ArticleSURPRISE DINING IS FINE DINING: DINER EN BLANC HITS BOSTON
Has anyone ever seen that episode of Gilmore Girls in which Rory, while attending Yale, accidentally discovers a secret society and then journeys deep into the Connecticut woods with them to attend a...
View ArticleMISSADVENTUROUS: AGING IN PAIRS
Au contraire, readers. I’m not going to shower you with love stories from Paris, but rather talk to you about growing up and coupling off. Somewhere between ages twenty one and twenty four I had a...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: TOGETHER ANNOUNCES KITSUNE CLUB NIGHT WITH LIFELIKE & FRED FALKE
Together is bringing the French touch to Naga on Wednesday May 15, for a Kitsuné Club Night that should definitely be on your “Do Not Miss” list. Maybe on your “To-Nu” list, as in nu-disco list. Or...
View ArticleARTS: NEAL RANTOUL @ PANOPTICON GALLERY
Neal Rantoul considers himself a bit of a recluse. A quality one would never guess after listening to his stories—dynamic tales of life and travels forming images as crisp as the photographs...
View ArticleKISSING OSCAR WILDE: A LOVE STORY IN THE CITY OF LIGHTS
Jade Sylvan is an award-winning poet, author, performance artist, yoga teacher, and bon vivant based in Cambridge. Or as she puts it: “Troubadour, Eschatologist, Bum.” Her latest book, Kissing Oscar...
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER VS. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA: “ENDLESS...
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether...
View ArticleSTRICTLY LOCAL: MISS GEO
Meet Boston’s newest indie pop tarts: Miss Geo, the electro-pop creation of Rhode Island-born Abby Gutierrez (vocals/guitar) and French national Paz—“Just Paz, like Prince!”—(backing vocals/synth)....
View ArticleWORDS: KISSING OSCAR WILDE
Portrait of the artist as a conflicted queer Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, and Humphrey Bogart are all dead, which is kind of a problem for Cambridge poet Jade Sylvan. “I worry I’ve outlived the...
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN VS. PAVEMENT: “THE KILLING MOON”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether...
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: LYKKE LI VS. FRIENDLY FIRES: “I’M GOOD, I’M GONE”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether...
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: ELLIOTT SMITH VS. MADELEINE PEYROUX: “BETWEEN THE BARS”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether...
View ArticleLYKKE LI VS. FRIENDLY FIRES: “I’M GOOD, I’M GONE”
Friendly Fires made “I’m Good, I’m Gone” a sultry dance track to end your evening on the perfect note. Make sure to use it as such.
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: ELLIOTT SMITH VS. MADELEINE PEYROUX: “BETWEEN THE BARS”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether...
View ArticleAU CONTRAIRE GRANDE FRERE: MASS OFFICIALS SAY THERE’S NO THREAT AT HOME...
It’s never easy criticizing vigilant Big Brother while the crime scene is still bloody.
View ArticleGO BIG OR GO HOME: TOWARDS A MASS CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT
Political organizing is tough work … until it isn't. Until a movement that dwarfs anything ever seen in human history rises and sweeps through the entire population.
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